havenraven23 's review for:

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I've been meaning to read her work and this book fit one of my reading challenges. A great collection of stories. Some were super disturbing at times, but all them were well written and made me think. The second to last one was probably my favorite. So strange, but powerful. She's definitely great at Sci fi and I'm excited to read more of her stuff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Racial slurs, Death of parent

I'm probably forgetting stuff- there's a lot of triggers.