Octavia Butler is one of my all-time favorite science fiction authors, so I was very excited to receive this book. Butler was one of the first authors I read when I started reading Science fiction. I've read most of her fiction, but not all of it, and I'm very excited to find that not only were there some old favorites here, like Fledgling, but some others I hadn't yet read.

That said, Fledgling is one of my favorite vampire stories, but I do like to warn everyone, there were some parts that were difficult to get through, not because of the writing, but because of the characters. The lead character appears to be a very young girl, but she had adult relationships with some of the characters, and some people might have trouble reading about that. All in all, though, just Fledgling alone is an excellent book, and a good reason to pick up this volume.