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4.49 AVERAGE

emotional informative sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I planned to read this during my holiday in Austria, so I was very surprised to finish it on the train there, having started it the day before on the coach to London.

It's a beautiful book. The nature and freedom described in the early sections filled me with wonder and joy, wanting to explore this wilderness myself. The events of the latter half filled me with sorrow. I should have expected that, it's about the natives of North America, so hearing about the deforestation, dispossession and "re-education" of the land and people was something that was going to be coming. It tore my heart out.
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DID NOT FINISH: 15%

Interesting but not really a story?
informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Beautiful, though it felt a bit anthropological or ethnographical at times rather than a story, or literary, or poetic. I wish it had been longer!

6/5
adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No