Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

This is book #2 of the series. Spoilers incoming, esp for the first book. In the first book, Lauren Oya Olamina is living in Robledo - a walled community in a hellscape version of America, where law and order has broken down, and people have to fend for themselves against violent individuals and gangs. Her community is destroyed in book one and she travels north. She meets Bankole, they get married, and he has some land up north they settle on. She has also collected several other survivors along her way and they live on Bankoles land as well. Lauren begins her religion, called Earthseed, which is her life's purpose. The end of Book 1 is the start of Earthseed. Parable of the Talents continues this story, in a narrative style that I did not like for the first half of the book. The first book is told from Lauren's perspective. The second book is narrated by her daughter, who is writing about her mother, and it is as if we are reading the daughter's book. But the book is primarily…