August 13, 2020 2:26 am
This is my second reading of the first book of this box-set Find my first review here.
This reading, I was surprised at how current this dystopian story feels. It was only a year ago that I read the first book. Yet now, this seems so scarily close. The author died in 2009, so it was before all of this. How prescient!
As I mentioned in the previous review, I didn’t know what happened after the end of the first book. The second fills in the holes of what happened with the daughter.
At the same time, I wasn’t happy with how the story goes back and forth in person and times, beginning with that second book. I think it is more noticeable when you listen to your books on text-to-speech. I think my eyes might have noticed subtle changes. But that was such a little thing that it didn’t lower my rating.
I cried at the end of the book. I felt I wanted more. I wanted to be with Lauren and everyone in the story longer. The author was excellent in how she created a religion and gave us the ways it grew. How she drew the reader in to know the main character so profoundly was amazing. Now I want to read all her books! I am a fan!!!!
Posted by darsword
Categories: Books, ebook, Kindle, Reading, Reviews
Tags: america, apocalyptic, bi-racial, book-2, diversity, dystopia, fantasy, female-authors, Feminism, Fiction, kindle-unlimited, Octavia E. Butler, sci-fi, science-speculative, text-to-speech-enabled, young-adult
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