Reviews - The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill

4.11 AVERAGE

flynneware's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

theunicornwriter's review against another edition

5.0

I have read a lot of books over 30 years. Hundreds. Thousands, truthfully. But. This. Book. This book is without a doubt the best work of fiction I have ever read. The Girl Who Drank the Moon has firmly planted itself as the absolute number one favorite book on my all time favorite book list, and I highly doubt its roots will be shaken anytime soon.

I hope to be back to provide a more detail review once I’ve fully processed the book, and my thoughts are more coherent. For now, I will simply list some elements that make this book spectacular, wonderful, and utterly magical: a multi-faceted narrative with a folkloric atmosphere, found family, positive relationships, the Bog, a Simply Enormous Dragon, a Glerk, a Luna, a crow, a Grandmama, a madwoman, paper birds, unconditional love—love that never divides but multiplies, and, most of all, hope; the kind that seeps out from the text, like moonlight for an unsuspecting witch trying to feed a baby, and satiates readers like me. Like you. Like us.

Cannot recommend enough. Will never not recommend this book moving forward.