Fledgling

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Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

Grand Central Publishing: 2007, 320 pages

Reviewed by Salina Bush

This book is not your typical vampire book and I loved it for that reason.  It tells the story of a girl who wakes, gravely injured, and has no idea who or what she is.  She must figure out what happened to her and, more importantly, how to live with the inhuman abilities and needs that she possesses.  It was wonderful learning with the main character how to navigate the world she finds herself in and the book was a very unique take on the mythos we are all familiar with.  It was also very bittersweet reading this book.  This is the final book that Octavia Butler published before her untimely death in 2006, which made it all the more special to me.  It is a fitting capstone to a wonderful career.