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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

4.32 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

A really enjoyable read about how the love of stories can connect people through time and space. Maybe a little bit of a shallow read but it absolutly succeeds at what it's trying to do. This definitely  got me to cry because I'm a sucker for stories about how stories connect us all. Absolutely would recommend!

i think i cried at 80% of the chapters from Zeno's perspective absolutely devistating but so good
adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced
challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
reflective medium-paced
adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective
slow-paced

this was extremely long and the perspectives would shift whenever something interesting was starting to happen
i also feel like the part that's set in the future could have been more developed, as some elements felt really confusing and random (i really wanted to know more about the disease, for example)
besides that, the plot twists were pretty good and the way the author wove the stories together was very well done
adventurous tense medium-paced

3.5

God. That was fucking sad. Beautiful. Poetic. Touching. But sad sad.

Lots of climate commentary that is cold and hard and painful.

Really good characters. Interesting perspectives. Nice snippets of history. Cloud atlas style.

But ultimately people fighting the inevitable force of change. And losing. Man makes plans and the gods laugh.