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jessthanthree's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, and Sexual assault
msagerber's review
- 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
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual assault
frida_epilogo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Cancer, and Murder
Moderate: Medical content, Violence, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, War, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, and Chronic illness
ashleysbookthoughts's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, Murder, and Medical content
Moderate: Child death, War, Car accident, and Rape
mizelse's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Murder, Xenophobia, Genocide, Abandonment, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death
Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Cursing, and Infertility
lisaisabobisa's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Self harm, Sexual assault, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, War, Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, and Xenophobia
ekua33's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Homophobia
leabhar_love's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Rape, Slavery, and Torture
Moderate: Murder, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Self harm, Racism, Sexual assault, Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, and Grief
Minor: War and Cancer
eaird's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Rape, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and War
Minor: Infertility, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Cancer
2treads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
TW: attempted rape, violence, murder.
Octavia Butler just continues to stun with her explorative and intuitive examination of, not only the human condition, but what the fallout can be when we take our hubris too far.
Dawn is just another way in which she has chosen to interpret her understanding of the world as she saw it and existed within it. Mama Butler paid attention; she observed and experienced the ways in which humans interacted with each other, what our intelligence was used to accomplish and what possibilities our social hierarchies and dominance could possibly cause.
Lilith must now reckon with her current existence among this alien community who have had enough time to learn, if not understand the mentality, psychology, behaviour, social norms, and emotions of humans.
Their way of life, terms of assimilation, and expected outcome of repopulation of a restored Earth are foreign and unwelcome to Lilith. But if she is to survive and thrive, she must find a way in which she can come to terms with what is now her present reality.
It is very interesting to see Lilith's growing trepidation to the Oankali's interpretation and understanding of human physiology and interactions; as she begins to realize that in their execution of their mission to integrate and populate the stars, their actions are reminiscent of past cultures and empires on Earth that at one point or other were hegemonic and autocratic.
With each Butler book read, it is clear that she wanted to use her fictional worlds to question societal constructs, hierarchies, hegemonies, identities, the natural world, and beyond.
Moderate: Rape, Racism, Xenophobia, Violence, and Murder