I loved Kindred, so I expected to love this book too. unfortunately, this just wasn't it for me. octavia butler's writing style and incredible imagination were the only things that kept me reading. I loved her conceptualization of vampires, family, and justice, but the book did drag. I also couldn't get past the fact that the main character is a child. every scene in my head I was yelling "she's in a ten year old's body!!" I don't really understand why that choice was made and honestly, it made a lot of the scenes make me sick. I will definitely give butler's other books a try but this one was a miss.