Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi

 

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi is one of the Hugo Award books.

Started: 09/28/2021
Completed: 9/29/2021
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: Hugo Awards

Review:

I just did not understand where this story was going.  It felt hard to get to know the characters as the story switched perspectives a lot for a short story.  It kind of felt to me like Onyebuchi had a story that was written and then he was told to make one of the characters a witch and then he switched around what had been flashbacks from yet another character perspective into readings by the witch.  I dunno, didn't catch me the right way.  The start was really good...probably would have been a better story if the story had developed more directly from there.