A review by celiapowell
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

4.0

This novel about two essentially immortal beings - Anyanwu, a shapeshifter (brilliant, healer, carer) and Doro (a horrifying spirit who must move from body to body, leaving corpses behind) - and occurs over quite a long period of time. Doro brings Anyanwu from Africa to America, and makes her part of one of his "villages" - villages he creates and controls in order to breed people with special abilities for him to one day inhabit.

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I hate that Anyanwu doesn't maintain her rage at Doro throughout this book, and seems to end with a kind of resignation of "oh well, I guess we're both immortal together", because Doro is a monster and I want to see him die horribly... but I get the sense he might get his comeuppance in the next book in the series, so I'm keen to read that.