Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

51 reviews

zgc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

if this was any other author I would have bailed a few chapters in. not sure I was right not to. this book needed another editing pass, if it needed to exist at all. it's built around a creepy trope, and its themes are communicated better in her other work

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror and Racial slurs