"Fledgling" is the only Butler I've read so far, but I've heard really good things about "Kindred" and I'm going to try that next. "Fledgling" felt like a book that wasn't finished, that still needed to be fixed up and cleaned up and made smooth. The writing is a little bit choppy and not as emotionally invested as I would have liked, but I still really liked it. There were specific elements of the book that really bothered me, but I also felt like they'd been put in there to bother people and make them think. I love the concepts and the subculture/version of our world. I have A Thing for vampires, and I really really like the version she's created. I wish she'd been able to do more with the idea, write more books. i would totally read a series about her vampires.