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Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler

21 reviews

sillyduckie's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

figgy24_20's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Not my favorite of Butler’s books, but still all star league writing. Very insightful - all her characters grapple with the complexity of the situation in their own way. 

The world is revealed to us through the eyes of the characters - the problems they face are the ones that are important to the world. 

The whole book takes place in about a 10 mile radius in the middle of the desert - and yet it’s gripping, and the world is big and full. You don’t need to create continents with individual cultures on each of them to tell good sci-fi with complex world building - and Butler illustrates this perfectly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Reading the content warning list is kinda like a summary of the plot…. Sooo…. Be warned I guess lol.

sankatoni's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

deremie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cancer and Suicide

Minor: Incest

nrich_reads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

This was a well written book. And because of that, it's also one of the more disturbing books I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

alsoapples's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jeanbpdx's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Suicide

jacobshere's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

gellyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Yo, what the fuck did this have to do with the rest of the series? What the fuck did I just read?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

💬: "He wiped everything he had typed and began again on a clean form, “YOU MUST ESCAPE! THERE’S AN EPIDEMIC BREWING HERE! WE MUST GIVE WARNING, GET TREATMENT!” She was shaking her head again.

Butler, Octavia E.. Clay's Ark (The Patternist Series Book 3) (p. 57). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition. 

📖Genres: adult, science fiction, speculative fiction, thriller, dystopian 

📚Page Count: 214

🎧Audiobook Length: 07h 22min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5 

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This is my second time reading Clay's Ark by Octavia E Butler but this is my first time writing a review for it. The first time around I gave it 4 stars, I loved the suspense and the thriller elements of this book so much. This time around I'm keeping my rating the same at 4 stars. I'm not giving this 5 stars though because of the gratuitous sexual violence in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment