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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler

8 reviews

alreadyemily's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Miscarriage, and Abandonment

c_seonjyung's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

dustytealeaf's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nick_thebucket's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is incredible but the art is so poor that it actually detracts from the story. The way the expressions are drawn is so cheesy and it just doesn't read as authentic at all. Like they drew her looking more emotional eating shrimp than when she returned after time traveling for the first time. It doesn't look like the characters are feeling the emotions, they look like they're acting, if that makes sense. The anatomy was.... there were so many mistakes and they were very beginner level mistakes. The characters didn't even look like themselves half the time because the artists couldn't draw them consistently. Also the layout/composition of panels was so hard to read at times that they literally added in white border to try to make some sense of what's going on and I thought the white linework was distracting and unappealing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

bookishchef's review

dark emotional sad 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

That 0,5 star is because I struggled with the art style sometimes. 

This book had me ugly crying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, and Fire/Fire injury

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Fire/Fire injury

bitterseason's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

stwriter92's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I have had this graphic novel for a few months now, lent by a coworker at the school I work at. I had to first finish the books I had gotten from the library before I could embark on the journey that this story had in store for me. 

Kindred centers around Dana, a young black writer living in the 1960s with her husband. Her normal life is shattered when she is jarringly thrown through space and time into the antebellum south to save the life of a small white boy, Rufus Weylin. Rufus, it turns out, is an ancestor of hers. As the story goes on, she is constantly being tugged back to the past to save Rufus from some sort of mortal peril. She quickly realizes that each visit grows longer and longer as Rufus begins to depend on her to an almost unhealthy degree. 

I really did enjoy this graphic novel and will probably read the original novel at some point. I do believe that this story would be much better to teach at schools rather than To Kill a Mockingbird to show the realities of the racism, discrimination, and cruelty faced by black people during slavery. There is nothing sugarcoated about the horrific realities faced by of millions of people. We see Dana take multiple roles with Rufus, starting out as a reluctant mother figure, a tutor, and mentor, and a caretaker. All of this is done unwillingly and she is, in a way, his slave throughout because she seems to be bound completely to his will. She learns quickly that slavery was not as clear cut as it is taught in schools. Soon, she has to think about what she is willing to do in order to survive, forced to go against her own ideals. 

I do think that she thought she could change Rufus at the beginning, hoping to teach him to see black people as equals and human beings like himself.

I think that this naivety is a mark of what she had learned about slavery. White people just didn't understand that black people were equal to them. She soon finds that it is very different. As Rufus grows, he soon becomes a slaveowner, despite Dana's attempts to teach him otherwise. The first time she is called back, he is being beaten nearly to death for raping a black woman because he wanted her. None of Dana's lessons have stuck and Dana is left in a moral quandary: should she continue to save Rufus, thus ensuring that she is born in the future or should she allow Rufus to die? I believe that this is a question she wrestles with time and time again. The small sliver of hope she has that he will change is what keeps her saving him time and time again. It is only when he attacks her and attempts to rape her that she kills him herself. It was at that point she fully understood that the hatred went too deep. He would never truly see her or other black people as his equal. The men were simply labor and the women were meant to be used for his own personal pleasure. The development of Rufus's character as he grows more and more awful becomes the fulcrum on which Dana's own fate seems to hinge on.

I would definitely recommend that everyone read this. I think it's still extremely relevant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting