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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

24 reviews

liormaleficent's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and War

loucadoslivros's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Kidnapping

pyromastyx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death and War

elizmckinney9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

nicolewhopickedthisbook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Definitely an epic Scifi post apocalyptic adventure. Lilith is really stuck between a rock and a hard place when she wakes up to find out she’s basically been kidnapped by aliens (they say rescued) after Earth was wiped out. These aliens have a strange amount of control over Lilith and eventually other humans you meet, but everything is done their way and on their time and Lilith has to either fall in line or go back to sleep. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping

There’s a scene where a group of humans are drugged before meeting the aliens and then sexual stuff happens

booknug's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

isa_almeida's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Kidnapping

thenonbinaryc's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Rape, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

ashleysbookthoughts's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

I read Parable of the Sower last year and immediately knew that I needed more Octavia Butler in my life. How had I been sleeping on her for this long? Part of the issue is that I don’t really consider myself a science fiction reader, which is what Butler’s books are generally classified as. But I am a fan of speculative fiction and dystopian fiction, and in Butler’s version of sci-fi, there’s considerable overlap with these genres. So, in addition to being a glowing review, this is also a PSA to try reading genres you sometimes don’t consider. And if you’ve never read anything by Octavia Butler, please do so post haste. 

Let’s get the scary sci-fi part out of the way: there are aliens in this book. And while the aliens are a major factor, please know that this is so much more than a book about aliens. More than anything, it’s a book about humans, what it means to be human, and at what point in the evolutionary process does what we are fundamentally change?

Dawn was written in the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, and it shows. Butler has a knack for looking at the world and imagining the long term consequences if we continue on our current trajectory. This book raises big questions. Does being human mean that we are destined to destroy ourselves? What are the ethical ramifications of animal research, breeding, and genetic modification? And, what price is too high to save our world?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Car accident, and War

mizelse's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infertility, and Car accident