Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler was a book chosen by one of my book groups.  It was an interesting story, but I was not taken with the writing.  It felt too simple, as if it were written for pre-teens maybe.

Kindred is the story of twenty-six year old Dana, a black women living in Califormia with her husband.  She was suddenly "taken" from her home and woke up to living in pre-Civil War times.  There she saved Rufus, son of a vicious plantation owner, who was drowning. When Dana's life seemed threatened she was sent back to modern times.  This scenario played out over and over, as Rufus grew to adulthood, but it was only a few months time for Dana in real life.  Confused?

I find it amusing that I can totally go along with time travel in the  Outlander series, but found the premise of Kindred ridiculous.