4.38k reviews for:

Amanecer

Octavia E. Butler

4.16 AVERAGE

wildereading's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional 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: Complicated

jefferose's review against another edition

5.0

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This is a complex, complicated novel. For anyone looking for science fiction that acknowledges that life outside of Earth would almost certainly be incomprehensibly different from our own, this is the perfect book. Butler is thoughtful and honest about humanity's flaws and the moral ambiguities that must surely arise between two species that can never fully understand each other. Butler refuses any easy answers, forcing the reader to interrogate their own responses and wonder how they would behave in such wild circumstances. This is a challenging read in the best possible sense, and everything that speculative fiction ought to be.

ebb211's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced

mschuller's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jenmcjen's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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: Yes

liv213's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging mysterious 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: Complicated

beckyburgess's review against another edition

5.0

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It’s just the top tippy top of all existential science fiction 

l4tch's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

mkmatheson's review against another edition

2.5

slow-paced

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Themes of an individual’s value buoyed by the motif of how we treat animals are the centerpiece of Dawn. Unfortunately, this is done in a way where the story is a series of things that happen to the protagonist, rather than the character having much agency to guide her own journey. Perhaps that’s part of Butler’s genius in exploring these ideas, but it left me with a so-so reading experience filled with blunt exposition and little payoff.

nickmroz's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced