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593 reviews for:
Lilith's Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy (The Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Octavia E. Butler
4.37 AVERAGE
593 reviews for:
Lilith's Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy (The Xenogenesis Trilogy)
Octavia E. Butler
4.37 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-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
I remember reading The Left Hand of Darkness in my early twenties and being blown away. This is a smilier book, one that makes you think about the body, its form and what it means to be human. Butler's view of humanity seems to be on the bleak side- a species willing to suffer because they are too proud, too stubborn to change, resisting the change that comes in the form the alien gene traders known as Oankali. It was fascinating to read about life/genes becoming a material for trade, circulating in alien networks.
adventurous
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:
Complicated
dark
emotional
hopeful
slow-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
What a stunning trilogy!
The writing, the ideas, the political discourse, the social commentary, the post-colonialist themes... all weaved together in a terribly humanist web. The prime question at its beginning is what it means to have power (and to use it), and what it means to not have power- yet the more it progresses, the more it becomes this multiculturalist tale of nuance.
Throughout the entire thing, I was never able to decicively choose sides. I was rooting for the Oankali, but I was also rooting for the humans. Is the survival of our race worth "losing" our humanity?
For its supreme ability to make you feel empathic for two different opposing sides alone, I give this full marks. But considering everything else, including the exploration of the human nature and irrationality, and this makes for one of my favorite trilogies I've read in a long time.
I thought the first book was by far the strongest and most interesting, but the latter two books definitely do some interesting things that wasn't in the first.
The writing, the ideas, the political discourse, the social commentary, the post-colonialist themes... all weaved together in a terribly humanist web. The prime question at its beginning is what it means to have power (and to use it), and what it means to not have power- yet the more it progresses, the more it becomes this multiculturalist tale of nuance.
Throughout the entire thing, I was never able to decicively choose sides. I was rooting for the Oankali, but I was also rooting for the humans. Is the survival of our race worth "losing" our humanity?
For its supreme ability to make you feel empathic for two different opposing sides alone, I give this full marks. But considering everything else, including the exploration of the human nature and irrationality, and this makes for one of my favorite trilogies I've read in a long time.
I thought the first book was by far the strongest and most interesting, but the latter two books definitely do some interesting things that wasn't in the first.
No fue para mí. La ciencia ficción a veces tiene excelentes premisas que me gusta descubrir, pero esta vez no fue el caso. Octavia es, sin duda, una excelente escritora, pero este libro —además de ser demasiado extenso (y cometí el error de no intercalarlo con otras lecturas)— me aburrió muchísimo.
Son tres libros en uno, sí, pero la historia de una raza extraterrestre que quiere ayudar a la humanidad a sobrevivir muchos más años después de una guerra apocalíptica me resultó muy inverosímil, al menos para mí. Hay demasiados detalles, nombres y situaciones repetitivas: los humanos somos jerárquicos y terminamos destruyéndonos entre nosotros. Me aburrí en largos pasajes y, aunque reconozco el valor del libro, no lo disfruté; lo sufrí desde la mitad en adelante, y lo terminé solo gracias al audiolibro.
2.5 estrellas.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
loved this book! I’ve read Kindred and Parable of the Sower but this felt the most sci-fi book I’ve read by Ms Butler.
My feelings changed often during reading alternating between love and hate for the Oankali, but by the end I was back to hate and hopeless about the fate of humans. I read this book as a commentary on colonialism and the lengths people will go to adapt and assimilate.
I had to reread the sex scenes like 4 times to finally understand they were having sex 😭😭😭
My feelings changed often during reading alternating between love and hate for the Oankali, but by the end I was back to hate and hopeless about the fate of humans. I read this book as a commentary on colonialism and the lengths people will go to adapt and assimilate.
I had to reread the sex scenes like 4 times to finally understand they were having sex 😭😭😭
adventurous
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated