Reviews - La patro kaj la maro

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La patro kaj la maro

Tove Jansson

4.12 AVERAGE

lyrasbookshelf's review against another edition

2.0

This is a horror story about what happens when you give up everything so your man can act on his midlife crisis and chase his delusional dreams.

heddasch's review against another edition

4.0

hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

karina_m's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Less cosy than the other books but contains lots of prompts for reflection. I love the Groke’s storyline in this book.

Content Warnings

neilazaara's review against another edition

2.5

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was by far my least favourite in the series. I came in for some fun light moomin adventure time and I received depression, sadness and melancholy. This is almost an alternate universe moomin story. I like the dry jokes and dark humour we get in these books but here there was not a single smile, it was just slow and long and quite frankly morose…