Unabridged Audiobook
This book kept me hooked from start to finish and has made me think more deeply about consent , relationships, and connection. so glad I listened to it. also enjoyed the narration which had insightful intonation and different voices for the characters. Loved it!
the kind of story that stays with you
Fledgling by no other than Octavia Butler. She's the Sci-Fi Queen. In this book, she introduces us to a little girl, Shori who wakes up in a cave from a fall or amnesia. She remembers nothing and wonders who/why there are dead bodies around her and where her parents are. Finds out that shori is a genetically modified 53-year-old vampire, that can walk and function throughout the day. Her kind lives long lives, even though she presents as a child, she is much older. Many of her kind lives for 300-600 years. They live off others' blood. And once they suck your blood, you then become obsessed with them. You also gain pleasure from them sucking your blood, and your life's goal is to please and protect them. Octavia, in her own glory, brings us a look into "otherness" or another possible lifestyle. It is questionable but possible. Not her best work.. but most definitely her genre. #Book14of2023 #Whatsnext
Loved this book!
The title itself is a good read. I think this is an original spin on an old much used genre. it was a little rushed and somewhat unfinished but overall definitely worth the read. I loved the intense sexual, psychological and emotional relationships between vampire to symbiont. There was desire but also love and attachment. I wish Miss Butler had lived to write a follow up novel or just revise this one.
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