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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

Octavia E. Butler

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Sep 16, 2014 Akiva ꙮ rated it it was amazing

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Dawn was so painful to read that it took me a long time to get back to the rest of the Xenogenesis series. They kept staring at me from the bookshelf, however. So eventually I picked up Adulthood Rites, and I'm glad I did.

Adulthood Rites is a complex book that works on many different levels, and I'm not going to try to touch on it all here. Morality is central to both this and Dawn, and the moral problems are intense and difficult and fascinating. They range from questions about the future of th ...more

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