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The Arctic Curry Club by Dani Redd

5 reviews

antonia_oana19's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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lauraslittlebooknook's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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

3.5

We follow Mya, our FMC, as she struggled with her anxiety amidst a number of triggering life events. I found Redd to have navigated Mya’s struggles with her mental heath with sensitivity and honesty, making her a very relatable character to root for. 

Actually, I loved all the characters in this one (except Ryan, whose red flags were waving from early on!), and felt right at home with Mya’s found family. Redd’s effortless descriptions of the Arctic tundra, both scenery and temperature, had me totally immersed in the story (and maybe adding an extra blanket to my pile), and her descriptions of the food had me salivating throughout! 

This was an empowering and enlightening story of being kind to yourself and finding where you belong. 

There was some triggering content within this story, however I think Redd navigated these themes perfectly.
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fivecatsinacoat's review

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I figure it's a good time to stop reading when I'm actively wishing the main character would just shut up and go away. 
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missredreads20's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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chalkletters's review

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adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted 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? No

3.5

I picked up The Arctic Curry Club because my dad’s street has a ‘curry club’ and I was amused by the coincidence. From the blurb, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of book I would be getting, or whether I would like it, but the snowy arctic setting of Longyearbyen in Norway made it seem like an appropriately wintery read for this time of year. 

It took some time for me to get invested in Maya. At first, her negativity created a barrier, making it difficult to sympathise with the hardships she was going through. The sudden journey to India, taking us away from the main plot and into a family mystery subplot that I could probably have done without was also pretty jarring. 

But then Maya returned to the arctic and her life started to change in really compelling ways. I love character development, and Maya’s really kicked off around this point. Suddenly, I was reading chapter after chapter, ignoring my page goal for the day to keep uncovering Maya’s story. Dani Redd continued to include the history subplot, which never fully engaged my interest, but it did tie up with the main plot at the end in a way I could appreciate. 

I thought about sending this to my dad, purely because of the coincidence with the name, but in the end I decided it wasn’t really his kind of book. Besides, I wasn’t willing to part with it, which is surely an indication of just how Dani Redd managed to turn things around.
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