![]() *spoilers below for Wild Seed and Mind of My MindĪnyanwu is such a compelling character that I feel a little cheated knowing that she gets so little of her story continued as Emma in Mind of My Mind - the ending was rather abrupt, and the resolution a little abrupt. I feel like the next two books might veer much further into sci-fi and not feel like this, especially Wild Seed, which follows Doro and Anyanwu from Ancient Egypt through the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. ![]() These “real” historical settings made the allegories that much more clear and made for a very grounded reading experience. ![]() I know the gist of the next 2 books in the series, the last of which was the first to be published, is set far into the future and involved aliens and shit, but honestly what I loved so much about these chronologically “first” two books are how deeply in tune they are with their respective historical settings, and how Octavia Butler deftly weaves between the supernatural - the supernatural megalomania of Doro or the supernatural empathy of Anyanwu - and real historical devastations of slavery and its legacy on American society into the late 20th century. I am reading this series very out of order - I finished Mind of My Mind a few months ago, so reading this is like reading a prequel. ![]()
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