Fledgling

De: Octavia E. Butler

Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo

This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.

©2005 Octavia E. Butler (P)2020 Recorded Books

interesting metaphors

Really interesting story with deep parallels to life as a POC in the US. Beautifully written, so that the parallels are subtle. So much depth to the story if you can understand what you are looking at. And if not, still an engaging, entertaining story for a mature reader (meaning older than YA target audience).

It's not a confortable read, but it's good.

If you read other reviews for this book, you probably know why it's contraversial, there is a character with a childlike body in adult situations. From my standpoint it's supposed to be a little gross to read to enforce the in-human nature of things, although I'm still a little torn about using this method.

Aside from that it's a pretty good book, some things aren't wrapped up as I would hope, and the plot itself isn't incredible. But the world building on display was a delight to read, I felt like the characters all had distinct lives, personalities, and histories.

My second time reading this and I loved it twice!

I think the first time I had some difficulty with the image of a child (despite the age being 53) having these strange intimate relationships. But I listened without the shock that I had the first time I read the book and I enjoyed it much more.

OK. YA-ish vampire porn

feels young adult. little heavy on the pre pubescent vampire sex for my tastes. I dont need to he reminded that she looks 11 every time. Interesting take on vampire mythology though

Couldn’t stand the reader

While I don’t think the story was Butler’s best, it was very engaging with an interesting storyline. The reader was kind of awful though with a breathy quality and a weird almost “kid reading funny bedtime story” to voice the male characters, which was quite offputting.

Odd But Needed to Know, Why?

I was first attempted to stop the book when I realized the main character looked like a child but was embracing lovers to put it in some sort of mild way. But I stuck it out to see why? How could this be? The story line was intriguing the beginning held my interest with the introduction putting you right there with her as she awoke. Towards the end I was glad to see how it wrapped up. I usually wish many books become movies but this one can stay on pages. No one could stomach the scenes visually from this book.
I did like the change of tones from the narrator which was a good way to tell the difference in characters as well.

Excellent as always!

Octavia Butler is awesome as always. She is among the few authors I can listen to driving to and from work without getting distracted from the story. I mean to say I don’t have to go back and listen again. This story was so good I’m sorry I finished it so quickly. Bravo!

experience

can’t believe this kind of book exist but I’m so happy I was able to find. really enjoyed it, wish there was a part II to this or a series before Miss B left this plane

Captivating

This is my first Vimpire... anything. lol. I really enjoyed the storyline as well as the narrator's voice and the author's details. It helped me open up to a whole new world. Thank you.

Loved it.

I love vampire books. This one did not disappoint. Looking forward to reading something else by this author.