nordstina 's review for:

Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler

4.0

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Patternmaster is the final book in Octavia E. Butler's series of the same name and brings together plot threads laid out in the previous three books. It takes place in the future where there is a fight for humanity. In one corner are the Patternists, first introduced in the second book. The Patternist at the center has been infected with the virus established in the third book and is slowly dying. In the wake of his decline, there emerges a fight for his successor. One of his many offspring Coransee is strong and expects to take over the Patternmaster role. In comes Teray, a young patternist who is another one the Patternmaster's many sons who is just coming into his strengths. He allies with a healer in the house to lay a claim to the future rule. This sets up not only a huge battle with his brother Coransee, he also has to survive against the Clayarks- people who have been infected with the virus in a previous book and roam the land like animals. It all comes to a head, though certainly not everything in resolved and would have been interested in what came after this.