A review by miss_vonnegut
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Butler is an incredible writer. I loved getting a time-travel novel in which the main character is a black woman. As you can imagine, this book gets really dark, but even as someone who has a hard time with certain types of dark books, this was fine. Not a bad idea to check content warnings, but nothing felt gratuitous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Alcoholism

Since she keeps getting transported back to the pre-civil war south, you see a lot of time-period typical violence, racism, etc.