A review by courtneyfalling
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book feels incredibly and scarily prescient for 1993. It's a perfect and haunting example of how science fiction can hold political criticism and social imagination. Also wildly fascinating futuristic disability representation and religious system. 
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