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juushikaTitle: Parable of the Talents (Earthseed Book 2)
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Published: New York: Open Road Media, 2012 (1998)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 420
Total Page Count: 193,090
Text Number: 568
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Olamina's daughter recounts the troubles faced by Earthseed as it establishes its first community and attempts to begin its journey to the stars. Parable of the Talents feels like the middle book it as meant to be. It's more of the same as Parable of the Sower, but even grimmer, with dystopia-building which grows especially preachy and redundant but, in moments, functions as an apt warning. The narrative structure provides adequate momentum and an interesting external view of the protagonist—but not enough happens, and Earthseed itself doesn't develop significantly until the tail end of the book. This is one of Butler's weakest novels: hardly awful, but still a disappointment. I don't recommend it, but I wish we'd had the chance to read its intended sequel.
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Published: New York: Open Road Media, 2012 (1998)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 420
Total Page Count: 193,090
Text Number: 568
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Olamina's daughter recounts the troubles faced by Earthseed as it establishes its first community and attempts to begin its journey to the stars. Parable of the Talents feels like the middle book it as meant to be. It's more of the same as Parable of the Sower, but even grimmer, with dystopia-building which grows especially preachy and redundant but, in moments, functions as an apt warning. The narrative structure provides adequate momentum and an interesting external view of the protagonist—but not enough happens, and Earthseed itself doesn't develop significantly until the tail end of the book. This is one of Butler's weakest novels: hardly awful, but still a disappointment. I don't recommend it, but I wish we'd had the chance to read its intended sequel.
