Sister Mine
Written by Nalo Hopkinson
Narrated by Robin Miles
4/5
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About this audiobook
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica and now living in Toronto, is a superstar of modern fantasy. Her award winning novels include Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), and The New Moons Arms (2007). Her short story collection, Skin Folk (2001), was the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award. She has edited and coedited a number of fantasy anthologies and taught at the Clarion workshops and other venues. She is a founding member and currently on the advisory committee of the Carl Brandon Society, which exists to further the conversation on race and ethnicity in SF and fantasy.
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Reviews for Sister Mine
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book, with top of the line narration. Amazing fantasy and insight into hoodoo religion
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5nice writing on the voice of the book, and on the characters. a very lively collection of demi-god relatives add a lot of colour to the Toronto setting. the actual plot seems a bit vague, though, and sometimes desultory.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I really wanted to like this book, great mythology, interesting characters, but ultimately it just got too silly.
I felt like the author had to gloss over so much of the internal works of her universe to keep things she set in motion moving that it often barely made sense.
It's ok for characters to know more about the inner workings of their magic or mojo then you as a reader does, but not just because it's the only way to solve the plot mess you just made.
I think if she'd kept it simpler, it could have been great. As it is, I read the first two thirds in 2 days and the last third took me two weeks. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I struggled on to about half-way through but honestly, it was so juvenile and shambolic I could not be bothered to finish it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was such an odd story, it's hard to put it in a category. It seemed to weave between life and death, paranormal and the "juju" kind of magic, with a little sci-fi thrown in the mix. I'm not sure if the story wasn't well-decided on what it wanted to be, or it just wasn't presented in a way that made sense to me, I felt like I was struggling to get my bearings through most of the book. I did listen as an audiobook--it's possible that didn't help the process this time, so take my 3 stars with a grain of salt, you may like it better.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All I can say is WOW, Sister Mine is easily one of my favorite books I've read this year. Great storyline, engaging characters, perfect pacing. The narration in this is too notch too, so often the tone of the narrator is annoying to me or I have a hard time differentiating between characters by voice...not the case here. It's well worth a listen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice story. Kept me interested the whole way through. Just grounded enough to be easy to follow but stayed true to the classic Nalo mystical elements as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really wasn't comfortable with the incest in this book, even though it made total sense world-building wise. The other 99 percent of the book was both wonderful and totally unputdownable.