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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Beautiful writing, and highly evocative of the severe Labrador landscape. Also the diction and vocabulary was fascinating and of the time and place. I am interested in reading Crummey's other novels.
Michael Crummey's writing is just so...I don't even know the word. He writes about the harsh landscape of Newfoundland, the desolate lives his characters live but does so beautifully even when relaying distasteful events.
An uncomfortable story about young children left orphaned on a remote section of Newfoundland when their parents and infant sister die of sickness. They make a go of it, fishing, gardening through the year waiting for the annual visit from a supply ship. Left only with themselves to depend on, live with, love, the story goes in a predictable direction but not in a salacious or detailed way.
It's the kind of story that leaves you wishing the characters could get a break but when they do you wish things could go back to the way they were. Slow-moving but suspenseful at the same time.
That bear killing scene though....
An uncomfortable story about young children left orphaned on a remote section of Newfoundland when their parents and infant sister die of sickness. They make a go of it, fishing, gardening through the year waiting for the annual visit from a supply ship. Left only with themselves to depend on, live with, love, the story goes in a predictable direction but not in a salacious or detailed way.
It's the kind of story that leaves you wishing the characters could get a break but when they do you wish things could go back to the way they were. Slow-moving but suspenseful at the same time.
That bear killing scene though....
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character