It feels like everywhere I look, I keep seeing Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. While sci-fi isn’t typically the genre I gravitate to, the idea of a story within a story mixed with africanfuturism -something I’d never read before- intrigued me enough to finally try it.

I ended up reading Death of the Author with a friend of mine. And as much as we wanted to love it, our feelings didn’t exactly mirror the internet’s. In this post I’ll share my detailed notes with you (including spoilers). Consider this your cheat sheet. A play-by-play of this 450-page book.