We’ve been listening to Fledgling on audio for quite awhile and finally finished it last night. After you get over the creepy-ness of the 10 year old vampire erotic sex/feeding story, it’s smooth sailing. (For the record, the 10 year old vampire isn’t really 10 years old, she’s 53 in vampire years and just LOOKS like a 10 or 11 year old girl.) The race storyline, the simbiont storyline – excellent, as you would expect from Butler. She turned vampires into something a helluva lot more than Meyers or Rice or even Stoker ever dreamed up.
When it ended, TW and I were once again sorry that Octavia Butler died in 2008. She had a lot more stories in her and I’d really like to have heard more about Shori Mathews and her family of simbionts.