bukephalas 's review for:

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
5.0

This is another deeply challenging, disturbing read from Octavia Butler with similar themes to her Xenogenesis series. It's a really hard book to rate because it's very well written, but I can't say it's enjoyable; more like morbidly fascinating. For it's originality and willingness to tackle difficult themes I haven't really seen with anything close to the depth they are here I'll give it five stars. But proceed with caution, this is *not* light reading as some assume fantasy/scifi is.