Grade A #BookReview: The Daughter Who Remains by Nnedi Okorafor My Review: This final novella in the She Who Knows trilogy brings the story of Najeeba, the ‘she who knows’ of the series title, full circle, back to the place - if not the time or even the world - where she began in the opening book, also titled She Who Knows after Najeeba herself. Najeeba’s first daughter was Onyesonwu, …

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A- #BookReview: One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor My Review: Najeeba’s name means “She Who Knows” and she is the One Way Witch of this novella trilogy. Which is both a prequel and a sequel to Who Fears Death, as is totally utterly fitting because Onyesonwu, the “who fears death” protagonist of that novel, is her daughter. Was her daughter. Past and present tenses get knocked a bit off-kilter in the second book of Najeeba’s story, as…

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Before Words Were Born, She Was Already Becoming Long before theology carved up the divine, She was already becoming. This is a gospel of fire, contradiction, and remembrance—where Mary speaks, Thunder roars, and no one gets to name Her ever again.

Before words were born, she was already singing.
Before dogma, she danced.
Mary wasn’t rewritten—she was redacted.

The divine feminine is remembering herself.

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I read She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor today - yay worrying about having to return a library book to finish them fast.

Tl;Dr — lovely world building, good magic, 4/5

Reading goal for 2025: 2/20

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