Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Open Road Publishing on 07-24-2012
Octavia E. Butler,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Open Road Publishing on 07-24-2012
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781453263686 (1453263683)
Publish date: July 24th 2012
Publisher: Open Road Publishing
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
African American,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Aliens,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: Xenogenesis (#2)
I liked the second book in the Xenogenesis series a lot. There were some problems with the fact that I thought the character Akin did a total change that didn't seem reasonable after seeing how the Resisters acted. His thought process that if only the Resisters were granted total freedom would lead ...
I hadn’t expected to finish this book quite so early this evening, but the last 10% was a preview for the final book in the trilogy. I shouldn't have been surprised, because the table of contents did list it and there had also been a preview at the end of book one. I was just all wrapped up in the...
I find it oddly difficult to review an Octavia Butler book without filling it to the brim with cringe inducing sentimentality and hyperbole but I'll be damned if she doesn't make me all pensive and a touch maudlin every time I read her books. I get this feeling that her kindness and compassion alway...
As with the first book in this series, Butler creates a world that is both alien and familiar. Akin, the hero of the story, has a human mother and an Oankali father which makes him able to sympathize with both cultures. Unfortunately, he is too human to live among the aliens, but too alien to feel...
Adulthood Rites is the story of Lilith's Son Akin. The first human born male construct born on the revived Earth, and his struggles to find his place among both the humans and the Ooankali.Like it's predecessor Dawn, this book explores the question of what makes us human, and at what point do we b...
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