The Chrysalids

This book about mutants kind of reminded me of the Netflix show I just watched Sweet Tooth. (Sweet Tooth was more sentimental though.) This is a book about a group of mutants who eventually have to run from their community. Nothing stops the hatred of them. Even their own blood turns against them. The book begins with a boy seeing a girl with six toes and then he gradually realizes he has a mutation too except it is one in his mind. His father is a psychotic religious figure and terrorizes even family that breed mutants. Soon he and his friends have to run from the place where they live into the fringes. I felt the book dragged when they went to the fringes. It's a good book but not as good as Wyndham's other books like The Day of the Triffids and especially my favorite Chocky. Wyndham and Theodore Sturgeon are my favorite science fiction writers from the 1950s.