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A review by littlepepperguy
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
I love Octavia Butler as much as the next guy, I've read most of her collection by now but this novel was too far for me. I know she doesn't shy away from graphic, dark themes but I just can't abide the rampant pedophilia present in this novel.
The first 1.5 hours of the book are really uncomfortable the MC is introduced as a 10-11 y/o black girl who is picked up on the side of the road by an adult man and sexual desires and acts begin immediately. And Butler includes descriptions of her underdeveloped body and it being clearly that of a child. Just fucking gross. I didn't get far enough into it to see why she would use this thematically but idgaf that's just an immediate no from me. I am no cool with the over sexualization of black children.
It's too Lolita-esque. like the young girl is the seductive one. Just yucky
The first 1.5 hours of the book are really uncomfortable the MC is introduced as a 10-11 y/o black girl who is picked up on the side of the road by an adult man and sexual desires and acts begin immediately. And Butler includes descriptions of her underdeveloped body and it being clearly that of a child. Just fucking gross. I didn't get far enough into it to see why she would use this thematically but idgaf that's just an immediate no from me. I am no cool with the over sexualization of black children.
It's too Lolita-esque. like the young girl is the seductive one. Just yucky
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Sexual content