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A review by littlepepperguy
Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler
challenging
emotional
4.0
Something about this didn't live up to Wild Seed. I think Wild Seed was so sprawling and full of conflict between Doro & Anyanwu. Anyanwu goes by Emma in this novel and she's completely nerfed. She's given up caring about his breeding and given up on trying to resist. They're in a relationship for 200ish years before she gets icked out by him and stops smashing but she still is very possessive and changes her form to be attractive to him when he comes around. So like, idk she kind of sucks in this novel.
The ending is super anticlimactic. For how big of a villian and how powerful Doro is, the ending left me wanting. I would feel more invested if the narrative really nailed home how big of a deal Mary is.
It was def an interesting scifi story.
The ending is super anticlimactic. For how big of a villian and how powerful Doro is, the ending left me wanting. I would feel more invested if the narrative really nailed home how big of a deal Mary is.
It was def an interesting scifi story.