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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Incest, Cannibalism
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
reflective
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
dark
sad
tense
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:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a DNF of about 55%. I really tried to stick it out and finish this book. So far I have loved everything I have ever read of Octavia Butler and she's one of my favorite authors. If not for that fact, I would have probably abandoned this book four chapters in. It is so, so, so tremendously bleak, and slow. I know Butler's writing tends toward painfully realistic and intense, but for me this one tips over into gratuitous and unrealistic depictions of suffering. And for the first two hundred pages, that's all you have. The plot doesn't start until nearly halfway through the book. Much of the first half of the book is slice-of-life depictions of a grim, violent dystopia. And the reason people are brutally murdering each other is because they're.....poor? Drug addled? It honestly doesn't even make sense to me. Anyway, after a certain point I got too frustrated to go on, which is disappointing for me as an Octavia Butler fan, but this was just is not the book for me.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Bleak. Prescient.
All the more bleak because of how prescient it is.
This book is well-written, but I struggled with it because it feels like a very-near dark future for our current society (at least in the U.S.) That being said, while it *is* depressing, it’s also well worth the read.
All the more bleak because of how prescient it is.
This book is well-written, but I struggled with it because it feels like a very-near dark future for our current society (at least in the U.S.) That being said, while it *is* depressing, it’s also well worth the read.