Title: Poorly Edited, Pedophilic Undertones
Product review: I love Octavia Butler. She was a brilliant, creative writer and I hold many of her works close to my heart. Her books seem to have a running theme of challenging social structure and societal norms, even around sexuality. That's part of what I appreciate about her writing. What I just can't tolerate is the pedophilic undertones of this book. I know the main character is technically in her fifties, but her body is that of a ten or eleven year old. I trudged through the otherwise entertaining story (skipping the love scenes, yuck!), but I'm still left disgusted by that theme, and wondering what Octavia Butler was thinking. Why was it important to her to carry her readers through scenes of grown men making love to a ten year old's body? Ugh! Gross gross gross... My only other complaint is that this book seemed to be very poorly edited. There were errors on at least every other page.
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