Binti is the first of her people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in her galaxy. However, to accept the full scholarship is to leave her family and travel to a place with strangers who don't share her ways or respect her customs. However, Binti is determine to go to Oomza University and be surrounded by people like her, with a hunger to learn as much as they can. She anticipates leaving her family and traveling will be difficult, but she doesn't anticipate what happens partway through her trip. The Meduse, an alien race that is legendary for their ruthfulness, attacks the ship Binti is traveling on. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse and they are determined to kill everyone in retaliation.
If Binti has any hopes of surviving, she needs the gifts of her people and her own intuition and bravery.
I have read another book by this author and really liked it, and the review of this audiobook was good --- and it was GREAT! Robin Miles, who reads this audiobook, is fantastic. The story really pulled me in, but Miles made everything come alive. My only complaint was that I wished I was reading the book along with listening to the audiobook because sometimes, a word would be pronounced and I would wonder about how it was spelled. This is a great story that weaves together culture, tradition, exploration of relations between different groups of people (in a way that many people can relate to), but it's also about bravery, trusting yourself, and relying on reasoning and intelligence. I liked that Binti is a girl who is eager to keep learning as much as she can, and who reasons through problems in a thorough way.
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