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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Her writing proudly carries the banner and traditions of great science fiction forward. My favorites are thrillers, sci-fi/fantasy, and celtic history.

Lilith's brood is a book that i couldn’t put down. It asks really ridiculously complicated questions about what it means to be human in the face of annihilation and assimilation. Is human purity as a species more significant than the continuation of l... Read More

An unsurprisingly fantastic series from butler. Butler breaks the mold of most science fiction by by portraying the aliens as the good guys and the humans as the baddies. In awe of octavia butler's mind.

I love how it speaks to what is happening now and our world. Futuristic, yet very relatable with/in today’s climate.

Cons

The plot is ponderously slow in the places where it isn't inaccessibly weird. The author describes humans as a “hierarchical”society so many times i began to wonder if her thesaurus wasn’t working. What the reader gets is mankind killing each other of... Read More

The author never seems to really get that the pacifistic aliens for whom violence is apparently unthinkable are literally in the process of slowly eating the planet. Humans come off as violent rapists, and the alien species comes off as gentle rapists... Read More

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Highlights

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Quality

From the first page onwards one gets an affinity with the characters thats hard to shake

Considers the potential of a human and alien mingling on a biological and societal level with the aliens dictating most of the terms

I read these out of order starting with the 2nd book because i didn’t know it was a trilogy

I much like lilith am both fascinated and frustrated by the oankali

Shipping

It isn’t fast it isn’t slow but moves at a majestic pace

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This product had a total of 2,248 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 29 2022.