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Mason Pocklington - Lilith's Brood

For this week I read the book Dawn, the first in the trilogy of this series. What I got from this author was a similar read to that of Bloodchild, a work we read in class that I thought was interestingly similar to Dawn. Some similarities were that of the obvious, a family / daughter in particular, struggling with her acceptance of an overlord alien species determined to mate with her and humankind. What I found different was that in Bloodchild, the village the main character lives in is repulsed by the alien living with the family. The daughter's inward struggle on accepting the egg of the alien in Bloodchild is the tension of the novel. In Dawn on the other hand, Lilith agrees to mating with the alien, but its' the humans that rebel.
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