From the Bookshelf of 2017 Reading Challenge…

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Finish date: September 6, 2015

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Jul 17, 2020 Cinder rated it liked it

I’m so on the fence with this. I definitely was interested in the story bc I couldn’t put it down and was curious to see how it played out but I’m not sure if I ultimately liked it. I’m quite annoyed that there were no explanations as to why the time travel was happening, and why Dana and Rufus were so strongly connected besides the briefly mentioned relation. That doesn’t explain why she was “chosen” so to speak. I also struggled with Dana’s character. She had more of a battered woman mentality ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Sep 08, 2017 Kerry Gibbons rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: new-classics, adult-fiction, violent, classic-literature, sci-fi, female-protagonist, depressing, female-author, writer-of-color

This book was SO excellent.
ITV really is a genre enigma in my mind. Yes, it's sci-fi, but only in premise... that sci-fi element is not really investigated too deeply - because it's not really that important. The idea is not that different from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — and I don't think I would really call that sci-fi. Hell, Kindred is far more grounded in reality.

Dying to read more from Ms Butler. ...more

Like · see review