Reviews

Lilith'in Dölü by Octavia E. Butler

mschandrika's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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

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

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).

sproutedpages's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

mugwumpun's review against another edition

5.0

More notes to self than anything else:
Perspective shift between books reminds me of NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, which I read before this series
Intelligence serving our hierarchical characteristic. Wish this was explored more. Just a consequence of terrestrial life? Are schooling fish considered non-hierarchical? What would a non-hiearchical human society look like? Direct democracy (though I guess that's more about the mechanism for voting..)?
How was the Mars colony holding up?
Makes biology scary and humans are trivially manipulated - but who's to say we aren't that simple.
She really gets across Lilith's feeling of disgust toward the Oankali in the first book. Also made me think that the Oankali treat the remaining humans we we would pets (cats). We acknowledge some level of a cats agency but what the human says goes.
Oankali organelles! could have turned out as bad as midi-chlorians.

kaiazania's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

loungeking's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

rh2riordan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

marieeve1978's review against another edition

4.0

If I had read only the first part of the 3 in xenogenesis, I would have rated it a 5, or more if I could. The other two parts were repetitive and far less interesting for me. Far less conflict, ethics, decisions, etc.

helenmeigs's review against another edition

3.0

This honestly was hard for me to get through, I think having three books combined made it less satisfying… not my favorite Octavia Butler but still super interesting

omi3's review against another edition

5.0

i want to be an ooloi