# Octavia Butler's Fledgling

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octavia-butlers-fledgling/339161>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 9, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octavia-butlers-fledgling/339161 "2006-01-09T15:44:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octavia-butlers-fledgling/339161/1 "2006-01-09T15:44:53Z")

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I read \*\*Fledgling \*\*over the weekend and really enjoyed it. It’s been a while since her last book. I wish she was more prolific.

This one is about vampire-like creatures living in a symbiotic relationship with humans. I did think this book had a little too much exposition; the main character conveniently has amnesia so people spend a lot of time explaining things to her. It’s typical Butler in that the characters have seriously freaky relationships with each other that after a while start to seem normal and even enviable.

I sometimes have trouble with first-person narratives - the voice has to feel just right to me or I get annoyed with it. I have always liked Octavia Butler’s first-person voice.

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**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octavia-butlers-fledgling/339161/2 "2006-01-09T16:42:25Z")

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> [@Eleanor of Aquitaine](#):
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> I read \*\*Fledgling \*\*over the weekend and really enjoyed it. It’s been a while since her last book. I wish she was more prolific.

Octavia Butler has a new book out???  
\<runs to look for it\>