Finally, after almost six months, I managed to finish Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series. For those who may not know Octavia, she was one of the most extraordinary science fiction writers ever to appear in this universe. I’m a huge fan of her work, and I deeply regret that she passed away so young. I mention this because the Earthseed series is one that Butler never got to finish, leaving us without the continuation of what was meant to be a trilogy. Octavia Butler - Font: Pin

This book is very interesting because it follows the adventures of a vampire from the Andes and how he ends up in an alternative version of Recife, where the Dutch won the war against the Portuguese and permanently kept the territory that is now northeastern Brazil. One of the highlights of this book is imagining an alternative history in which Quilombo dos Palmares became an independent nation and, from there, turned into the leading nation of Latin America. As someone from