A review by lacy30twin1
Seed to Harvest by Octavia E. Butler

4.0

Compiling the four books may have cause more harm than good. The books, individually, could've stood on there own although some were better than others. I agree with other commentors that the books should be read in order of publication instead of by the timeline of the story. After starting out so strong g with Wild Seed, Mind of my mind was disappointing. It bordered on boring, in comparison to Wild Seed. The last story, Patternmaster, was more entertaining than I expected but still left me with some questions like, what about the war with the Clayarks? How does that get quelled? What happened to the other people with special abilities that weren't telepaths? They initially weren't apart of the pattern.

These are all very good books with interesting story lines. Some storylines are executed better than others but still worthy reads. As a compilation here is how I rated the individual books:

1. Wild Seed
2. Patternmaster
3. Clay's Ark
4. Mind of my mind