![]() ![]() Plot developments cease to have meaning, because anything that happens to or around Binti can be explained by appealing to at least three or four sets of magical abilities that can come into play. None of her magical skills are adequately explained they are not really differentiated either, and - this is where I check out - they all become interchangeable. In the end, Binti unites so many superhuman and alien capabilities that the whole thing caves in on itself. There are more I am not going to mention them all. ![]() Then it turns out she's descended from another alien race, whose earthly kindred are capable of a pseudo-magical telepathy that is presented like a mental Instant Messaging programme, complete with relaying attached files, and she starts accessing those skills. ![]() An encounter with an alien race rewrites part of her dna, and so she becomes part alien, gaining telepathy and other psy-like powers. She starts off being able to do "treeing" (which appears to be a mix between concentration help, visualisation technique, sub-conscious processing capacity, and actual magic. Throughout the series main character Binti acquires more and more pseudo-magical mental abilities. I grew more and more disappointed with the Binti series as successive volumes were published: I just couldn't maintain my willing suspension of disbelief. ![]()
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