Reviews - Future Home of the Living God

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Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich

3.66 AVERAGE

loiefaulkner24's review

4.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

avmey's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious tense

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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miwugo's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

greeniezona's review

2.0

emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This book broke me. I am angry that I read it. Angry I did not check CWs. I laid in bed and sobbed after I finished it. Hope for humanity or any of the characters in this book was repeatedly teased and then relentlessly stripped away. It is the bleakest book I have ever read. Bleaker than Butler. Convinced me that humanity is a mistake and we should all be thrown into the sea.

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thenoodlevore's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I give this a real solid 4 for story, but the presentation on the audio version is a 5 for sure.

I read complaints about how the story was presented and the ending, but thinking about it, I like it. It’s pieced together in bits of journal, with a flow of thoughts related to what specifically happened then/ that day. I think it reflects a lot about the narrator’s mental state and adds to the story rather than takes away. Of course there are a MILLION unanswered questions. I like that it’s not a tidy ending at all and a vague reflection of a before time. The work was descriptive and I was able to see/ feel the events as it was described by the author. An impactful piece.

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