I find the daughter of Lauren Olamina to be entirely unsympathetic and unlikable, which makes the power of Butler's writing clear to me. Butler's exploration of slavery, religion and love is, as usual for her, very incisive and not particularly easy reading. What's telling, for me, is how much less far-fetched this all sounds now than it did when it was new. Well done, albeit with more repellent characters than the first of the books. The narration was excellent.