Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Dec 29, 2015 lisa_emily rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016-yorwoc, 2016-read

I haven’t read much sci-fi in the past number of years and in reading this I remember the different reading muscle one must use to read sci-fi. It is the muscle that forces you to completely submit to the writer’s world, since it is a world constructed by the writer- one can also make this argument about fantasy, but usually fantasy begin at some recognizable mythic point and leaps from there.

Like the main character, I started in a world I had to try to understand clue by clue. It allowed me to ...more

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Oct 07, 2018 Alissa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, female-writers, dystopian-future-earth

Ahhhhh so good! So perfect to read for these times of human self-destruction. Maybe we can look forward to our genderless, matriarchal, sexy extraterrestrial saviors? 🤞

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Jun 20, 2014 Heidi rated it really liked it

Shelves: sff

An engrossing read, I sat down to try this book and didn't move again until I finished it. I am hesitant to start book two in the series though, as parts are heartwrenching and I don't see a lot of potential for happiness... ...more

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Oct 10, 2017 Lianne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, science-fiction, 2017

Dawn is equally disturbing and compelling. I kept going back to it to find out what would happen next, despite cringing through some of the scenes and feeling the fear, isolation, and claustrophobia Lilith must have felt. There is so much contained in this book, and so many heavy, interrelated themes to think about: consent and autonomy, race, gender roles, power dynamics and power structures...I plan to finish the trilogy, but may need a breather before I keep reading.

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Mar 23, 2008 Jillian added it

There are some things that still make me wildly uncomfortable in fiction. Butler manages to employ a number of them, and I'm hoping I get some kind of human resolution in the next two installments. ...more

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