Dawn is part one of Olivia Butler's Lilith's Blood Trilogy. I have previously read her Bloodchild and Kindred. It is my hope to read all of her fiction available as Kindles.
Dawn begins on a vast space ship, itself a living being. Around 250 years ago America and Russia had a nuclear war which left the earth virtually uninhabitable. The aliens aboard the ship, the Oankali, removed the survivors and have placed them in deep sleep. They are planning to return them to earth after they are trained in survival skills. The Oankali are very strange, to the humans, multitentacled beings. Lilith, who is African American in origin, is being kept in a room with an alien when we meet her.
The best thing, and it is very well done, about Dawn, is the conceptual ideas, the creation of the aliens, who have been on the ship so long they do not know for sure where there home world is located. The weakest aspect of the novel, and I found this pretty wanting, was the relationships that develop between the wakened humans as the aliens prepare to return them to the earth, in a jungle environment.
I enjoyed this book. It falls short of greatness but the overall idea behind it was super interesting. I have begun part two, Adulthood Rituals. I bought the trilogy on Amazon for $2.95.
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