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Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov

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chrismologos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

The author's note sets this book as a way of understanding Ukraine, through understanding its people, geography, history. I think it did do a good job of introducing this, and really setting a scene of the coutry.

For me, though, bits of the plot seemed quite disparate, and various threads didn't tie up, or just fizzled out, for my liking.

newobhannah's review against another edition

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emotional informative slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

andrew61's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

wiltschap's review against another edition

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reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

curlywiggles's review against another edition

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3.0

The first 150 pages are a bit of a slog. Really colourless, slow and repetitive. Which I guess is what it's likeiving in a war zone. After that I definitely warmed to the book and there was a lot of interesting stuff to learn. But I didn't enjoy the dream sequences, it could have benefitted from having quite a few of those cut.