I haven't grouped my read books together in a post for a while, but I finished the second book before I posted here--it's been over a week. Both novels are in a three-volume series called Lilith's Brood that I borrowed from the Essex Library.
In Dawn, war has destroyed Earth. Hundreds of years later, Lilith is awakened by powerful aliens, the Oankali. The Oankalis rescued and healed many people. The Oankali want to merge genetically with humans and use Lilith to awaken and help explain the process to other humans.
Adulthood Rites focuses on Akin, Lilith's son. As a young child, he was kidnapped by a group of human resisters, humans whohave reject a life with the Oankali and established their own communities. Akin works to get Oankali support for a human colony on Mars where humans can procreate. This is a hard sell because the Oankali believe human hierarchical tendencies doom them to death by war or some other destruction.
Butler is a brilliant writer and her worlds are vivid. I am not as drawn to this books as I was to Kindred or to the Parable stories. I'll have more to say when I finish the third book, Imago.
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