Bloodchild

Short review: I am not particularly a fan of short stories. They just don't have enough for my taste. I want more development of characters and plot. Short stories start ideas but never finish them.

I probably wouldn't have picked this up except for two things. One it is free to stream if you are am amazon prime member or if you are an audible member. Easiest method is to download the audible app, go to channels (their podcast equivalent) and choose Audiobook collection. There are a couple dozen free audiobooks that you can stream there. Several of them are classics, but most of them are not. I have read about six of the available ones to stream.

But the second reason I picked it up is that I have two novels and one more short story collection and then I can say I have read all of the books that Octavia Butler published.

That being said, I liked this more than most short story collections because Butler has comments on each one. She gave context to the short story. Told us what she was trying to do, why she tried to write it, what experiment this story was trying to accomplish. That context gave me an understanding of purpose and that ‘more' that I am always looking for from short stories.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/bloodchild/ but it isn't really anything that I haven't already said here.