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This book will stay with me forever. It has profound ideas and helped me understand my own world better. Everyone should read this book. Octavia Butler was a genius writer. I will be looking at more of her work. I am sorry I haven’t read her before now.
Dana is just going about her normal life when one day she is sucked through time and sees a boy drowning. She saves him and is yanked back to her time. Then it happens again. The next time she drags her husband with her and they get stuck in that time for awhile. When she comes back he isn't with her because he wasn't touching her. This continues to happen for a few more times, Dana must make sure the man survives long enough to create her ancestor.
The book was a compelling read. It was interes ...more
The book was a compelling read. It was interes ...more
Mar 10, 2023
Maggie Shanley
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This book is a tough read, thank heavens there was a prologue to give you hope through some very dark, tortuous times. Dana and Kevin are writers, happily moving into their new house, unpacking their collection of books. Then Dana disappears from 1976 and wakes up in 1815 where a young boy is drowning. She spends about a month hopping back and forth in time, each time enduring physical suffering and pain to rescue a little asshole who I am not sure was worth saving. Dana deals with the perversit
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Oct 11, 2024
Chelsey
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it was amazing
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Truthfully, I don't know where to begin on this one. I do think it helps to know going in that this book is really a historical fiction, not sci-fi. Although the time travel element is what gets our main character, Dana, into the past, the focus of the story is on her survival in the antebellum South. If you are sensitive to scenes of violence and assault, this may be hard to read. Even as someone who is not very sensitive to many things, I found parts of this book very hard to read, bu ...more
Truthfully, I don't know where to begin on this one. I do think it helps to know going in that this book is really a historical fiction, not sci-fi. Although the time travel element is what gets our main character, Dana, into the past, the focus of the story is on her survival in the antebellum South. If you are sensitive to scenes of violence and assault, this may be hard to read. Even as someone who is not very sensitive to many things, I found parts of this book very hard to read, bu ...more
Jun 02, 2017
Tania
marked it as sff-club
Aug 15, 2017
Jackie
marked it as z-labeled-2017
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Nov 04, 2017
Ninix
marked it as to-read-maybe
Jul 22, 2021
Raluca
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Aug 09, 2020
Kishore Kadapala
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Sep 23, 2020
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Oct 22, 2020
Colleen
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Jun 19, 2021
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Traveling Bookie Monster
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