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laurelcloud 's review for:
Adulthood Rites
by Octavia E. Butler
I mostly found this book frustrating. I like Akin as a character but his fixation on the resisters is so annoying. I get that he feels kinship with these humans but most of them are awful and his fixation is likely futile anyway so it feels like the story is dragging along an already dead plot line.
His experience on the ship was the most interesting part and it felt way too short.
Gender concepts were fun in this book but still disturbed by the relationships. Everything is so deeply heterosexual in the worst way. The “no homo” vibes are rancid. Also I know they have to breed but it feels like way too much to me. Let these women rest, damn!
Something I’ve been wondering about is whether or not it’s a plot hole that so many humans are trash. In the first book these people go through rigorous testing and training to decide if they’re even fit to return to Earth. So in theory the best of the best are who ended up there, right? And yet we still have people like Tilden and Neci??? And the raiders who go around trying to abduct women to rape?
Maybe I’m reading too much into a symbolic representation of how shitty humans are but to me it doesn’t make sense in the story. Why would the Oankali just let these people live and hurt each other as well as Oankali children?
His experience on the ship was the most interesting part and it felt way too short.
Gender concepts were fun in this book but still disturbed by the relationships. Everything is so deeply heterosexual in the worst way. The “no homo” vibes are rancid. Also I know they have to breed but it feels like way too much to me. Let these women rest, damn!
Something I’ve been wondering about is whether or not it’s a plot hole that so many humans are trash. In the first book these people go through rigorous testing and training to decide if they’re even fit to return to Earth. So in theory the best of the best are who ended up there, right? And yet we still have people like Tilden and Neci??? And the raiders who go around trying to abduct women to rape?
Maybe I’m reading too much into a symbolic representation of how shitty humans are but to me it doesn’t make sense in the story. Why would the Oankali just let these people live and hurt each other as well as Oankali children?