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WOW! I can't believe I've never read this story. I loved Kindred...and this is an entirely different kind of wonderfulness. Oh, my, I loved it. The connections between a human woman and her non-human captors or saviors, depending on how you view it, form the plot of this novel. I read several reviews that felt the strangeness of the "creatures" was just too weird for them. It is weird and yet Butler's writing and the detailed explanation for the encounter ,and the reason for the encounter, left
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I selected as my pick for the 2019 BookRiot Read Harder prompt "a book by an AOC set in or about space" and the 2019 POPSUGAR Ultimate Reading Challenge prompt "a book set in space." While this isn't my usual genre, I really enjoyed the writing and connected with the story. This is the first book in a trilogy and I'm interested to find out how the story progresses and is ultimately resolved. The fact that this was a fairly short novel makes picking up books two and three seem less daunting than
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A partir del planteamiento seguirá un rumbo que a pesar de ser previsible a ratos, siempre sorprende por el tono que utiliza para plasmarlo y por un par de vueltas de tuerca que no me esperaba. Una novela sin desperdicio, cada capítulo tiene una razón de ser para contar lo que quiere contar, sin irse por las ramas, nos van llevando tal como a los humanos de la historia, a relacionarnos con los alienígenas de poco a poco hasta que sentimos simpatía por ellos y, por lo menos yo, dejé el bando de l
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