Lilith's Brood

What if you had to choose for yourself and others between death or a comfortable place to live and thrive,....but at a big price?
This book seems to touch on a lot of major issues dealing with the basic human thought. I loved this book, I simply could not stop reading it once I picked it up. The only thing that got me to stop was the fact that I had CA homework and projects that needed to be completed, but you can guess what I did when I was done with all of them.

So, this book has some pretty deep set themes about sex, and reproduction, but not just about those, in fact, there are a huge range of subjects that are arguably touched on, such as reproductive rights, racism, sexual consent, disabilities, rape (sexual violence), slavery, the human difference, and what is ultimately means to be human. The Oankali introduction just makes everything even more interesting. Butler's writing is intense, she'll show you a grotesque alian and won't let you look away, she'll throw questions before you and they will be very deep questions that more people don't discuss and what politics are made of. She'll force you to think about who you are and what you would, and what makes you human in the end. What makes as all human.

Speaking of humans, the human sects in the book (the ones who want to stay away from the "aliens") are almost Butler's cruel joke. She starts you off thinking that it would be an easy answer,of course any human might not want to see the race end, but then you are given the alternative, the actual human race, of which has become a voilent animalistic life. I really found that made the choice even more intriging and difficult. You feel for the main character of course, but at the same time, the reader is left wondering, which side would I choose?

There also seems to be a good bit of biblical subjects in the book.