Shori is matter of fact, a bit abrasive, and (despite her relative youth) a take charge sort even in regards to the adults in her own society. Along the way she meets humans and then others of her kind, many of which will become her allies and new support group. Her character is on a mission from page one and sets out to figure out all of these things. It’s clear from the beginning that the main character has many more years to her than appears (as an eleven year old girl). There’s a mystery element that the main character is navigating having lost all of her memory and then having to figure out a) who she is, b) relearn her own culture, and c) find out who is responsible for her memory loss. I’ve only read one of Octavia Butler’s books before, but based on that and this one I guess you have to expect certain levels of ‘weird and incredibly uncomfortable’ within her works. And normally I love weird but I don’t know if it was my type of weird (which says a lot especially because it’s vampires). This one was a bit of a weird one for me. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of “otherness” and questions what it means to be truly human. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted – and still wants – to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
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