Review: Fledgling

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is now the fourth Octavia E. Butler book I’ve read, after her two highly prescient Parable novels and the harsh time bending classic Kindred, and this, one of her last novels (the last to be published in her lifetime, I believe) is one of the most memorably unique novels I’ve ever seen. Depicting a vampiric species in mutualistic and yet saddening symbiosis with humanity, Butler reminds us all how highly she raised...