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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy

35 reviews

robinks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I haven’t read Parable of the Sower, but I enjoyed this graphic novel adaptation. While keeping track of the characters was difficult at first, they were given page presence in a way that got easier to discern as I read more. Also, the accuracy of this “dystopian” story to reality is eerie. Personally, I’m always turned off by particularly religious narratives or talk about God, but from a philosophical perspective, the ideas Lauren presents are very compelling. Visually, I’m not a fan of how Lauren’s verses were presented among the illustrations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Child death, Incest, Rape, Police brutality, Trafficking, Death of parent

theroastedbookery's review

4.5

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Brutal truth book about a not so dystopian future.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery

lilybear3's review

3.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I listened to the audiobook prior and wanted to check out the graphic novel adaptation.  I will say that I preferred the audiobook because I felt that it had better descriptions and captured emotions better than the illustrations in this book.  It's still a moving and compelling story, but if choosing to read this story for the first time, I would go for the original or an audio version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction

skeltzer's review

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Loved the artwork. It's been a while since I've read Parable of the Sower so can't say how true to the original this was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Rape

lasunflower's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-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

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I haven't (yet) read the original book, so can't comment on the adaption, but I really enjoyed this. The story is brilliant and the artwork is amazing. My only criticism is that it was hard for me to remember who was who  for many of the side characters in the village. 

Lauren is a really brilliant strong female character. For me, although the world Butler painted is very bleak, this story also shows the best in humanity, community, acceptance and trust.

I am very much looking forward to the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Cannibalism

Minor: Slavery, Blood, Trafficking, Classism

bookiecharm's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism

topochico666's review

4.75

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Gripping. Such a sad story with many parallels to our society. It made me want to throw a pillow multiple times and go pick it up to hide behind 5 pages later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

A lot of potential triggers throughout this story, but an important story by an important author.

mari77's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

fungivibes's review

4.75

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Cannibalism

Minor: Incest

readandfindout's review

3.25

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 3.5 stars
Plot: 4 stars
Worldbuilding: 3.5 stars
Art: 1 star

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Incest