
Wild Seed
The Patternist Series, Book 1
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Robin Miles
As the acclaimed Patternist science-fiction series begins, two immortals meet in the long-ago past - and mankind's destiny is changed forever.
For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. She is a shape-shifter, capable of healing with a kiss, and she recognizes Doro as a tyrant. Though many humans have tried to kill them, these two demi-gods have never before met a rival. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries and permanently alter the nature of humanity.
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Given Anyanwu’s stunning gifts, I was expecting a whole other kind of story. I didn’t get that. At least not in my opinion. Instead, I got the story of a woman playing the role of the “savior-negro”. Apologies for the term, but that's just how annoyed I was while reading this book. There just seemed to be way too much of Anyanwu spending her time coddling men, bearing their children, or saving them from certain disasters. I kept expecting her to rise up against Doro regardless of what she thought he might do to her. I at least expected her to realize that he was not a man (or thing) of his word and know that whatever she thought she was doing to protect her people was irrelevant. I nearly stopped listening during the conversation between Anyanwu and Isaac. There, he convinces her-easily in my opinion- to indenture (enslave?) herself to his father for the rest of her life. All this while expecting her to be “shared” by him and his father.
Anyanwu could have done anything-gone anywhere. At this point in the story, there were no children for her to protect from Doro. There was nothing for him to use against her. So what does she do? She allows the enabler Isaac to convince her that she needs to stay-to essentially help his father become a better... whatever. Anyanwu idolizes Isaac, reveres him, and he was no better than his father was.
This character could have done anything. The book just goes on and on about the many instances of her being subservient to a maniac. Nothing changed even after many years (centuries?) when she was the mistress of her own home. She had even topped on a few more abilities to make her even more dynamic!
I’m sure that I missed the point Ms. Butler was going for with this story. She’s a literary genius after all. I’d like to gain a different perspective and move forward to the other titles in the series. I think I’ll need to build up a lot more tolerance for the storyline before I do.
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