Kindred in Overdue Podcast

Aug 27, 2023 Jason rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own, favorites, 2023-top-10

Butler puts a face to the devil and it's purely human and complex.

I hesitated to pick this book up, I think the time-travel element had me doubting that the subjects and characters would be handled in a satisfying way, and guess what? I was wrong. The time-traveling element was a device used effectively, but not belabored. This is my type of science fiction, where much is left unexplained; our protagonist doesn't fully understand what is happening to her and thus can't spend pages and pages exp ...more

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Oct 09, 2020 Kaylie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: set-america

I absolutely understand why Kindred is classed as a fantasy book, and even why it's been chosen for my fantasy book club. It's about a character visiting another, unfamiliar world. It's just that the world in question is the antebellum American south, not an enchanted land. From a distance, I can see how those two are still fundamentally the same thing.

But I don't read fantasy because I want to explore our world. It's not that I need there to be dragons and wizards and magic. I've read a lot of ...more

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Aug 19, 2018 Liz rated it liked it

Shelves: adult-fiction

I didn’t always care for the writing style, but I really enjoyed the concept of this story. It made me want to give Octavia Butler’s other sci-fi a chance

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