melusa 's review for:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This book is fiction and yet feels so real and a telling of the near future. Some of the themes and realities seem far fetched when imagining them happening to the USA. However a lot of what is described is in one way or another happening in other countries. 

I suggest everyone should read it and schools should examine the storytelling, social and psychological issues it brings to light and of course the plausibility of it all with the younger generation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping