6/22/2023 0 Comments Octavia butler vampireNow this is where it all started to get unsettling for me because in finding civilisation she meets Wright a hairy hulk of a twenty three year old and not too long after this they start having sex after she bites him (something she soon learns is addictive, necessary and highly pleasurable for both parties). She needs answers, and so do we, and so goes searching. We soon discover that the remains of a village burnt down is not far from where Shori has been cocooned a village Shori is fairly sure she might have lived. In many ways Butler played a clever card as the reader makes the journey alongside Shori into finding just what she is and how she came to be. When we meet her she is a mystery to herself just as much as she is to the reader lost in the woods with no memories at all just heightened senses. For one the vampire in question, Shori, is a 53 year old vampire with amnesia under the cunning guise of a ten year old black girl. Butler’s final book ‘Fledgling’ is quite unlike any vampire book that I have read before in lots of ways. So would this be the pigeon hole busting vampire book that I was promised? Not that I have anything against vampire as I have ended up being addicted to the Twilight Saga, well what I have read so far anyway. Well apart from the tears that were shed in the fact that this book was the last title for the Not The TV Book Group I was really looking forward to reading what promised to be a very different vampire kind of book.
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