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Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

4.07 AVERAGE

emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes

Just gorgeous writing. Such a sense of place—I feel like I have been there and know the area well.
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

I thought this book was well written and easy to read. Yet, I'm think there was not enough content for the length and some repitition.

It's written from three different perspectives. The three female main characters are so similar, that I sometimes got confused and wondered if they're actually the same and I'm reading about their experiences in different timeslines. They're not, they just have similar passions for ecology.

The book also iterates and iterates over the idea that pesticides are bad and predators are good, from an ecological perspective. At the end, I was thinking "Yeah, I got it the first three times you explained it to me."

There's also a lot of "women are driven by the moon and randomly want to mate once a month".

I loved [book:Demon Copperhead|60194162], but after this book I'm tempted to call it quites with Barbara Kingsolver. After reading the reviews here, I think I'll still give [book:The Poisonwood Bible|7244] are try though.
adventurous hopeful inspiring relaxing

A lush, sensual novel about three characters in the mountains of SW VA whose lives intertwine one hot summer - another excellent Kingsolver novel! Read my full review at:

http://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2015/09/fiction-review-prodigal-summer.html