Midnight Robber

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English language

Published April 5, 2000

ISBN:
978-0-446-67560-4
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4 stars (4 reviews)

PRISONER OF NEW HALF-WAY TREE It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgivable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Here Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth--and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life . . . and set her free.

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reviewed Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

I really enjoyed this book

5 stars

what I liked most about the book is that there are so many different, fresh ideas in it. I loved the way the different societies are described and the non-human sentient creatures plus flora and fauna of New-Half-Way Tree. Also pretty cool that it is written in caribbean patois and that I learned something about caribbean culture e.g. the traditional carnival and its characters.

Also the story of Tan-Tan (the main character) is very intriguing and in many places it is unpredictable what will happen next.

reviewed Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

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3 stars

The first thing I noticed about this book is that the writing style is very different to anything I've read before. It took me about 50 pages to get used to this and I had to keep going back and re-reading some sentences in the early stages. It was worth perservering though to get a different reading experience and an different interpretation of what is considered "sci-fi" (in my opinion there's definitely some at the beginning, but the rest fades into the background).

There's a lot of abuse between the characters - verbal, physical, and sexual - and with one exception they're pretty unpleasant people (including the main character). Usually there's at least one character who I emphasise with or am routing for, but this wasn't the case here.

Overall, I've given this 3 stars because it was interesting to be exposed to a different style of writing and a …

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