Kindred Fail
Kindred: A Story Of Fail
The story starts at the end, with the main character, Dana, talking about how she lost her arm on the "last trip". What last trip? Really? And then it starts at the beginning. She's getting married to some guy, blah, blah, and then she suddenly teleports into the antebellum South. Wut. She randomly teleports. This is never explained, by the way, why she teleports. She meets some kid named Rufus, idk, and his mom, really, I don't know. And then after a little she teleports back into her own time and her fiance is all WAIT WHAT.
So anyway.
Eventually, her fiance somehow teleports there, too, because he's hanging onto Dana and he gets stuck there for a bunch of years. And is a slave, I'm like what. There's lots of ridiculous rape and the writing is awful. I mean, I want to scream.
You're confused for the entire book and the teleporting is never explained or really why she's suddenly MISSING AN ARM. So much confusion. It's supposed to be riveting and controversial and about facing racial issues, but Butler pretty much glazes over those and doesn't care about them a lot.
All of the characters are two-dimensional and shallow, Rufus and Dana's fiance most of all. Dana is boring and even when she's WATCHING SOMEONE GET RAPED, she doesn't do anything about it and doesn't even seem surprised/disgusted/horrified.
Whatever you do, do not read this book. EVER.
That is all.
And thank you.