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Birnams skog

Eleanor Catton

3.91 AVERAGE

fatimadambatta's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Picks up 300 pages in

hiitssimone's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Interessant concept met (extreem) links en miljonair die gaan samenwerken.
Helaas gebeurde er pas halverwege iets dat wat gang/conflict in het verhaal bracht. Tweede helft zit vol actie, sprongen in tijd en wie-weet-wat.
Het einde vond ik minder, te abrupt en rommelig.

Heeft me wel geïnspireerd om wat meer te gaan wildtuinieren.

plummcrazy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

simonhunterjohnson88's review against another edition

2.0

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mikireads3's review against another edition

5.0

Wow this book was crazy but also so clever and beautifully written. I couldn’t put it down!

elsewhere5's review against another edition

3.0

The first half of this book was pretty slow, each character’s section felt dragged out and longer than it should have been.

Then Darvish gets run over by the car and suddenly we have chases and murder all over the place which was at least much more interesting to read. The ending was very dark and depressing though (also quite rushed), I don’t mind some darkness but prefer shades of grey rather than full out massacre.

I did very much enjoy the characterisation though.