Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
The one good thing about studying English at university, is that you have to read books that you never dreamt of reading, books that you didn’t even know existed. And sure, analysing the heck out of them *sometimes* takes the fun out of reading them for pleasure, but hey, at the end of the day, you’ve read a book that is new to you and that’s good! With Dawn, it was like that. I’d never heard of it (even though I HAD heard of Butler’s Kindred), and I hadn’t exactly had the best encounters with the other science fiction books that I had had to read for my course. But you know what? I actually really enjoyed this one. …
When I picked the Science Fiction module for my university course, I was hoping that I would be reading some brilliant novels that I could really get stuck into. I did not think that one of them would be about monks and would span hundreds of centuries and that it would bore me to death. There were obviously a couple of redeeming qualities otherwise I wouldn’t have given it 1.5 stars, but it was just a complete yawn-fest. 
