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Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

49 reviews

franklola's review against another edition

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emblepemble's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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caroline_sele's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It's a good book, but I don't like slow books. It was just a bit slow for me but I liked Marian's plot.

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ashleysbookthoughts's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wow. Have you ever read a book that stuck with you so much that you dreamed about it? I’ve been dreaming of airplanes and Marian Graves for the past several nights.

Great Circle was just the epic story I needed to close out the year. It’s almost 600 pages, but reads like a much shorter novel. Maggie Shipstead is a great writer. Her prose is descriptive yet readable and she manages to capture the sensations her characters experience. There are periodically asides (about the history of Missoula Montana, the history of women pilots) that in a lesser writer’s hands would be extraneous and annoying, but Shipstead manages to use these asides to add depth to her story.

I don’t want to say more, because I think the discovery is a huge part of the experience of this novel. Suffice to say, I felt all the things while reading this: worry, rage, heartache, hope, and joy. I loved it.

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readmedo's review against another edition

5.0

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ladymirtazapine's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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ellipalmer's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

Beautiful writing. The characters felt so real and nuanced and the story so well crafted that I kept forgetting I was reading a novel and not non-fiction. It has some really intense and hard to read moments and deals with some intense some intense subject matter (see CWs). There were a few moments when I needed to take a break because of some really emotionally tough scenes. But nothing felt gratuitous or salacious. I don't even know what more to say, I just loved it.

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mablayy's review against another edition

Too graphic.

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jaclyn_k's review against another edition

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