286 reviews for:

Navola

Paolo Bacigalupi

3.83 AVERAGE

pterodashtyl's review

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

erinlcrane's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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Not for me. I was getting pretty annoyed with all the Italian (pseudo Italian? Not sure) thrown at me in the first few pages often with no explanation. The POV character is also quite dull, and it sounds like that doesn’t improve.

nodressrehearsals's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 2%

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Reminded me of my 90 year old history teacher in the worst way.

vbsauce's review against another edition

4.5

dark tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood

rei_reads's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt

hslo's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

toosunnyouthere's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leitnerkev's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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: Yes

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The writing is stellar (as usual for Paolo). The layers are fascinating and the world comes alive in many ways. It's a tough world and our hero is unready for it, but that's part of the richness of the story. I gotta say though I didn't like the ending. Woulda been a 4.5 otherwise

deedireads's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 31%

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30% in and nothing has happened. The prose is beautiful and characters are developing nicely, but it’s just not grabbing me and it’s too long to power through.

em_bear's review against another edition

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A