I obviously don't want to spoil the end of this series so I won't say much about this book specifically. I got the first book in this series on a whim and I absolutely loved it. I devoured the first two books in a week and I longed for answers and the ending. Then this became available and I read the wrong thing in one sitting. This was absolutely the perfect ending. It was heart wrenching and dark and had some amazing moment of heart souring hope. Overall this may very well be the perfect series.

Perhaps I needed to read the first two books in this series, but I didn't get into t his much. There's a lot of homage to Octavia Butler, which is is terrific, but also in some ways like in Butler's Parable books, the characters and situations often feel more allegorical than concrete and real, and I ended up not really caring about anyone or what happened to them.

adrienne maree brown never disappoints! I came to ANCESTORS for the speculative fiction and found a world, deeply imagined yet so resonant with the one we're all living through now. I am here for the pandemic reads and hope (and deep work) for transformative social change.