by Octavia E. Butler
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...
This book was so good. Akin is the first male born of a human (they've all been females before). With him being part alien, he can say words in days and remembers everything he sees and hears. The only part that looks alien is his tongue. Since the humans who did not want to stay with the aliens...
I feel a little guilty saying this is my favorite in the series, because it's by far the easiest to read. By easiest I mean the one that causes the least discomfort and dissonance. It's okay to root for the oankali in this one; he's a child, he's trying to preserve human independence, and he has no ...
It's the middle book in a trilogy and it some ways it feels like it. I have a sense that I maybe understood one fifth of the stuff that was going on in this book, but I liked it!
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