I’m struggling with how to rate this one. 

One on hand it’s an amazingly powerful book, looking into the dark depths of humanity’s past, present, and future. And Asha's PoV added great dimension to the story.

On the other, I struggled to connect with or feel much of anything for the characters, and the involvement of the ‘sharers’ once again felt pointless. 

I also can’t ignore the complete lack of Native American characters; there’s never even a single mention of them. In a book that parallels so much of recent Native American history (land being stolen, people being ‘re-educated’ to become ‘good’ Christians, children taken away from their ‘heathen’ families etc.), I find it completely baffling that Butler completely omitted them from this novel. Even if everything else about the book made me want to give it 5 stars, this blatant omission alone would stop me from doing so.