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A review by shane_the_reading_rat
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
1.75
fyi this review is filled with spoilers
i really feel like the odd one out here for really disliking this book :/ as a dystopia it just plain doesn’t make sense to me. how is it so apocalyptic yet nasa, voting, the national guard, police, and the presidency itself still exist? it doesn’t line up.
also, the violence in here felt (to me at least) like it didn’t have much purpose after a while. every few pages someone is killed or raped or eaten, and Lauren (despite her hyperempathy) never seems to treat this as something horrible. just in general, her hyperempathy did not feature much. characters were flat and would just die without Lauren reacting much. her brother dies and is mentioned maybe one or two more times in the whole book, cory dies and is never mentioned again, and OH MY GOD I HATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAUREN AND BANKOLE. he is so gross
i really feel like the odd one out here for really disliking this book :/ as a dystopia it just plain doesn’t make sense to me. how is it so apocalyptic yet nasa, voting, the national guard, police, and the presidency itself still exist? it doesn’t line up.
also, the violence in here felt (to me at least) like it didn’t have much purpose after a while. every few pages someone is killed or raped or eaten, and Lauren (despite her hyperempathy) never seems to treat this as something horrible. just in general, her hyperempathy did not feature much. characters were flat and would just die without Lauren reacting much. her brother dies and is mentioned maybe one or two more times in the whole book, cory dies and is never mentioned again, and OH MY GOD I HATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAUREN AND BANKOLE. he is so gross