{"id":451,"date":"2014-01-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10010\/?p=451"},"modified":"2015-02-19T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:47:55","slug":"book-month-fledgling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenvelope.com\/blog\/book-month-fledgling\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Month: Fledgling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-452\" alt=\"Fledgling Book Review\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenvelope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FledglingPS.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenvelope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FledglingPS.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.greenvelope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/FledglingPS-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Seattle native Octavia Butler has crafted a unique take on the tired vampire story in her 2005 novel, <em>Fledgling<\/em>. Full of rich characters and Butler\u2019s views of the modern family, <em>Fledgling<\/em> explores the politics of a unique vampire society through the eyes of narrator Shori, a young, biracial vampire suffering from amnesia.<\/p>\n<p>The reader learns the history and culture of Butler&#8217;s vampires right along with Shori as she struggles to reconnect to the community she once had. After years of fashionable, vacant vampire stories,\u00a0<em>Fledgling\u00a0<\/em>offers a breath of fresh air to the genre, exploring politics, romantic relationships, and loss through without relying on stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>Butler truly was a sci-fi writer for everyone.\u00a0<em>Fledgling<\/em> is a delicious novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,238],"tags":[31,17],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional","category-company-culture","tag-book-review","tag-office"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book of the Month: Fledgling | Greenvelope Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seattle native Octavia Butler has crafted a unique take on the tired vampire story in her 2005 novel, Fledgling. 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