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

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Lauren is a teenager growing up in a walled community in California during harsh economic and climate times.  She decides to educate herself on survival skills just in case she is forced from her community.  These communities are under constant attack from roving gangs high on drugs or very poor and desperate. Eventually she is forced to travel North and her skills come into play but she is also very untrustworthy of anyone.  Underlying to this is she has developed her own religion, Earthseed to cope.  Overall the dystopian side is well written and difficult from a subject to read.  My issue comes with the long journey that ends at a possible new place to live and then the novel ends.  Just ok for me as it went on.  Doubt I will continue the series.