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Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

Finish date: June 28, 2007

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Sep 13, 2023 ambyr rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: protagonistㅡfemale, authorㅡpoc, genreㅡhorror, acquiredㅡbought-new, authorㅡfemale, characterㅡlgbt, stand-alone-novel

It's different reading this now than it was the first time I read it, in October 2005, because now I know there will never be another Butler novel; less than six months after Fledgling was released, Butler passed away.

This is a flawed book in a lot of ways (even Butler thought so). The first half is grippingly paced, a race from a mysterious foe . . . and then the latter half devolves into an interminable trial with no twist or tension. The guilty party is both obvious and motivated by exactly w ...more

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Mar 10, 2015 ambyr rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: acquiredㅡbought-new, authorㅡfemale, authorㅡpoc, genreㅡhorror, stand-alone-novel, protagonistㅡmultiple-genders, romantic-subplot-i-did-not-want

I was unhappy with the book; I didn't mind it rehashing old territory, but I thought it dealt with it worse, not better, than her previous books. In particular, I was disturbed that Butler never really seemed to raise questions about the morality Ina-symbiont relationship in general--she depicts bad Ina-symbiont relationships, but they're bad because the Ina in question are bad, not because there's something problematic about what is, essentially, mind control.

This contrasts pretty heavily with ...more

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