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A review by lefttoread
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
4.0
I usually bullet point the strengths and weaknesses in a story but I feel like I can't do this here. Kindred is phenomenal, and I'm not sure my review will do it justice.
I learnt things from reading this, important things that I am grateful for. We follow a Black woman from the 70's experiencing slavery for the first time and that prospect alone was chilling. On top of that, we get an unlikely relationship, feelings of empathy and trust, then hurt and betrayal.
"I never realised how easily people could be trained to accept slavery."
I don't think this book was explosive, it was a quiet book with a whole lot of impact. Kindred was first released in 1979, it's full of conversations on race, history and equality yet it was an easy read and one that I would definitely recommend picking up.
"That disturbed me too when I thought about it. How easily we seemed to acclimatise."
I'll definitely be checking out more of Octavia's work.
I learnt things from reading this, important things that I am grateful for. We follow a Black woman from the 70's experiencing slavery for the first time and that prospect alone was chilling. On top of that, we get an unlikely relationship, feelings of empathy and trust, then hurt and betrayal.
"I never realised how easily people could be trained to accept slavery."
I don't think this book was explosive, it was a quiet book with a whole lot of impact. Kindred was first released in 1979, it's full of conversations on race, history and equality yet it was an easy read and one that I would definitely recommend picking up.
"That disturbed me too when I thought about it. How easily we seemed to acclimatise."
I'll definitely be checking out more of Octavia's work.