lehmane 's review for:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

3.5

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A challenging book on several levels. A fully dark, dystopian view of the future from the 1980’s. Extra challenging because there are intimations of that view actually here today. The struggles of a society and a person in a time of chaos descending into absolute anarchy proceed and build through out the story leading to an ending that illuminates the title of the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail