Leigh Kimmel’s Reviews > Lilith's Brood > Status Update

Swaying the resisters -- and then Jodhas and Aaor's family come looking for them, and find people who've changed sides quite effectively.

More of the villagers come over -- and some of them are struggling within, between what the elders have told them, and what they have observed with their own senses.

The healing of a massively disfigured man, and mates for Aaor -- but all is not yet well, for there is still hostility in this tiny community to anyone with a different idea of how to handle the situation.

Saving Aaor will take teamwork, and considerable risk. Can they connect with this secret band of resisters and find mates for Aaor without getting themselves killed, and possibly betraying this community?

Bonding with mates.

Our protagonist's success becomes pain for sibling Aaor, who also wants Human spouses. Aaor seems to be fleeing sapience, turning to something akin to a mollusk, with no obvious sense organs or anything recognizable even to close kin.

Returning to camp at last, reuniting with family -- and the full story of how fertile humans came to be, apart from the Oankali. A spare story, but deeply fraught with the breaking of powerful taboos -- yet echoing the question of where Cain and Seth got their wives, if their parents were the only two people in the previous generation.

The story of how the First Mother had a child as the result of a brutal crime, and began a line of fertile humans separate from the Oankali -- but with a hidden genetic defect that becomes stronger with the continual inbreeding.

Attacked by hostile resisters, our protagonist must do some emergency healing.

Our protagonist begins second metamorphosis, a delicate time of vulnerability and change, in less than ideal circumstances. Will these two humans from a hidden community be willing to follow through on their promise?