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

challenging dark emotional tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

I can't work out how I feel about this. Part of my problem is that this was just a thoroughly depressing and disturbing book. And that makes it hard for me to say that I necessarily liked it. I felt so tense reading it that I would leave it for days without going back to it. Honestly, I went into this book pretty blindly and in retrospect I don't think a dystopian apocryphal novel was what I was looking for or in the mood for while still in the midst of a global pandemic. 

Needless to say, I won't be continuing the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Trafficking, Racism, Medical trauma, Addiction, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence