Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Lilith's Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) by Octavia E. Butler

14 reviews

alexray's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Absolutely insanely good. Scifi masterpiece for sure. wow. I haven't felt this spellbound by a book in ages. Will have to clean up this review later. 

• flawless worldbuilding. incredible depiction of alien biology. so very cool to have aliens that interact with the world on a cellular level and treasure and merge with new life 
• superb commentary on sex, gender, patriarchy and misogyny, race and xenophobia, pride, group psychology, the effects of social conditioning, accepting or trying to deny nature and desire. 
• Butler hit the nail on the head with the inherent struggle in humanity's nature and genes as an intelligent but hierarchical species. 
• all 3 main characters had extremely compelling stories, each of their lives examining a critical turning point of the alien Oankalis changing of humanity. Lillith and her children a thread going from the first succesful contact and species crossing, to the integration growing pains and road bumps, to the beginning of the true total integration of both species into a new final form.
• all characters very well developed as individuals.  
• ultimately hopeful, but pulls no punches in how horrible humanity can be.
• ample amounts of great gnarly body and existential horror 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Misogyny, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism

serena_hien's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Infertility, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: War

juice's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

Absolutely incredible! Highly recommend

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

This trilogy focuses on cultural misunderstanding in extreme cultural difference. Similarly, there is an exploration of consent as a theme (as well as a potentially dated view of consent).

geonox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Violence

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Infertility, Sexual violence, and War

simareading's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful series, I loved all three books in their own right, thought they were so vastly different from one another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Incest, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, and War

mothstrand's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Incest, Infertility, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and War

msway's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

With Octavia butler, being my absolute favorite author, this is my absolute favorite book written by her. I love the world building. She creates how she can make you simultaneously love and hate the same character. The sadness and desperation, her writing evokes. This book had everything. it put on display all of humanity‘s faults. But also had hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War

pineapplesurvivor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Violence

Moderate: Racism and Rape

Minor: Ableism and Fire/Fire injury

dxlltopia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Ableism, Confinement, Gun violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Genocide, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Car accident, Alcohol, and War

librarycowboy's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Genocide, Infertility, Misogyny, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

Minor: Incest, Rape, Suicide attempt, and War