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    Akata Warrior
    Akata Warrior
    Akata Warrior
    Audiobook12 hours

    Akata Warrior

    Written by Nnedi Okorafor

    Narrated by Yetide Badaki

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.

    Eventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysterious town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity.

    Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today's Nigeria with a unique world she creates. Akata Warrior blends mythology, fantasy, history, and magic into a compelling tale that will keep listeners spellbound.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 3, 2019
    ISBN9781977372437
    Akata Warrior
    Author

    Nnedi Okorafor

    NNEDI OKORAFOR, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her Tor.com novella Binti won the 2015 Hugo and Nebula Awards; her children's book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa; and her adult novel Who Fears Death was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo.

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    • 5/5
      This book immediately took me in. I wasn't able to do anything else until I finished it. 10/10
    • 5/5
      I got the first book in this series, Akata Witch, for my then 12-year-old daughter five years ago. She wasn't interested in it, so I read it. I lost my copy before finishing it, then discovered these audiobooks. I listen to the whole book again, and loved it. Akata Warrior, the sequel, was just as entertaining, if not more.

      Although they are billed as YA books, as a man in his 50's, I found them profoundly enjoyable. The characters were well defined. The plot was interesting and insightful. There was much to learn about African culture and spirituality. 10 out of 10, I highly recommend.
    • 5/5
      I love this series so far by Nnedi Okorafor. It is great the have African and African-American culture not be demonized and for an albino character to be the protagonist and not the antagonist or villain. I'm excited to read the final book in this trilogy.
    • 4/5
      Loved being back in this world. The book kind of slacked in the middle a bit, and I would've liked if it was a bit longer to explain a lot of things too. However overall I loved this book and hope that a third book gets announced in the near future.
    • 5/5
      I’m so sad this book has ended. I love these characters and they’re journeys !!!!!!!!
    • 5/5
      So good, I love Sunny and her adventures! It makes me want to read more about her.
    • 5/5
      Amazing how it weaved a good story, magic, culture, 'the old ways' and lore so brilliantly!
    • 5/5
      This was a great book, i read this an the first.
    • 4/5
      The story moves quickly, interesting things happen, the characters show some development so that's good. The magic is magical, and almost everything works to get to the conclusion. The final actions in Sunny's big battle did seem a bit arbitrary and contradictory what with all those read beads flying about.
    • 4/5
      I love how this series is a whole 'nother level of world building, but explains it well enough to not require re-reading the first book. The magical Nigeria is a vivid and strange place, mysteries begin to be answered, and Sunny Nwazue is starting to stand on her own. Unexpected plot twists, good relationships, and a thoroughly engrossing tale.
    • 5/5
      This second installment of the Akata Witch series was a more introspective journey than the first one. I enjoyed it just as much watching Sunny grow as a free-agent Leopard and as a person. The first part of the book is mostly about Sunny and her learning more about her powers, especially when she is thrown in the basement of the library after breaching the secrecy of the Leopard People. Her friends Orlou, ChiChi, and Sasha remain in the background until about the middle of the book. Their adventures were just as breathtaking as the first book.
    • 3/5
      A year after finding out she was apart of the Leopard Society, Sunny Nwazue has been studying and sharpening her magical powers to defeat a terrifying, powerful masquerade, Ekwensu. After being punished for helping her older brother get out of trouble using her magic, Sunny and her coven must travel to Osisi to fight to save the world.

      Just like the first book, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior is filled with Nenedi Okorafor's rich and detailed world building that I loved. Though I still wasn't fully set on writing style - it still seemed full of details and story line that left the story feeling meandering but then rushed in places that I wish had more details. There was a lot of recap in the book, some of it would even be stuff that happened a few pages before, which sometimes helped because I would get lost in why and how things were happening because of the way the writing was.

      I did still enjoy the book, even though I wasn't a HUGE fan of the first book, I grabbed the second one the day I finished the first because I still wanted to see what would happen with Sunny, Orlu, Sasha, and Chichi. Okarafor has a talent for world building and I wanted to know more. I'm still going to recommend this book to people who like science fiction and fantasy. Just because I wasn't my full cup of tea, doesn't mean it wasn't good.
    • 3/5
      I have been eagerly anticipating this release ever since first reading Akata Witch, which sent me down the Okorafor rabbit hole, reading everything she's published. And I reread AW before diving into this one as it had been 6 years since I first started on that journey. This, though, didn't quite hit the same high notes the first book did for me. There was *a lot* of recap throughout the book, which may have been ok if I hadn't just reread it, but as such it really slowed down the book for me. I didn't feel Sunny growing as much as the first book as a character, and there was a point about halfway through the book where I began getting lost about why things were happening the way they were. I'm a little disappointed as I'm pretty enthusiastically gaga for almost all of Okorafor's other work, but I am still interested to see what happens to Sunny and the gang in future books.
    • 5/5
      Sunny Nwazue, an albino African American immigrant to Nigeria, was initiated into the Leopard Society a year ago. This was much like Harry Potter or Nita Callahan discovering that they had magic powers, but were going to need training, and that effort, courage, teachers, and friends were essential to their tasks. This year Sunny faces a number of difficult challenges, and some of them are dreadful. The first one is learning to read Nsibidi, the magical language that sucks her right into the textbook and gives her headaches, then there’s a swamp beast that tries to drag her into a its lair to drown her. Unfortunately, its lair is a swamp that can magically appear and disappear without warning. Then she’s punished for misusing her powers to defend her older brother who’s being threatened by a murderous gang. And finally, she and her friends must confront an evil power that escaped the spirit world to this one and plans to destroy it. But first they must go Lagos and beg aid from the powerful Udide. Udide is both supernatural and very large. She’s a great hairy spider the size of a house. Spiders give Sunny the creeps.
    • 5/5
      Ok, so, I *love* this story. A continuation of Akata Witch, we pick up with Sunny after she's had a few months to train with her mentor, and she has grown up delightfully. She still has trouble with hiding her powers, but everyone at age 13 does, and it isn't like she can just move to Leopard Knocks.

      I love the consistency of the world, that the ground rules we learned in book 1 still apply here. There might be new powers or creatures, but people still have to learn to advance their powers, chittim still fall, and juju powder still makes Sunny sneeze.

      I enjoy this series of books so much that I hope there is a 3rd. I could read about Sunny and her friends until she was 90 years old and dying.

      The setting is occasionally more intriguing than the plot, but to be fair, that has to do with me, not the book itself.

      100%, great job. I hope there's a next installment, or at least another book from Nnedi Okorafor. Especially teen-audience stuff.
    • 3/5
      A bit bloated with repetition, especially of mundane details.
    • 5/5
      I love these books more than......almost everything else. Before I read Akata Witch back when it first came out, it had been a while since I really felt like I was reading a "Forever Book". This is an awesome sequel and if you want to get that first book love feeling again: READ THESE. Sunny and Chichi and Sasha and ORLU. *clutches chest* One of my favorite casts.
    • 4/5
      Sunny Nwazue and her friends continue their training as Leopard People, learning how to use their magic and follow the rules. Now thirteen, Sunny is developing her abilities and coming to know herself, while navigating the challenge of not telling her family exactly what she's up to - especially difficult after she gets in trouble for breaking the rules while trying to help her brother.I really enjoyed Sunny's continuing adventures in this sequel. The story wraps up in a satisfying way while still leaving an opening for a storyline in a sequel. I enjoy Okorafor's inventiveness, world-building, and ability to write compellingly for a variety of age groups.
    • 4/5
      Loved this book only slightly less than its predecessor, Akata Witch, and I hope Sunny's adventures continue soon! I really appreciated Sunny's character development and especially learning more of her experiences in New York before she went back to Nigeria with her family, which were only alluded to in the first book. More about several other characters is learned, and Sunny and her friends manage to save the world from the apocalypse (again). I do hope the universe of Leopard People continues to expand, and that another book in this series is on the way.
    • 5/5
      A great sequel that dives deeper into the personalities of the characters, particularly with Sunny and her brothers. The stunning indifference/cruelty of the adults is rather startling.