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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
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
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
slow-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
this book gave me raging anxiety and the urge to plant trees
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-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
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
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:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide
Most painfully abstract prose I've tried to read in me life
4/5 because I judge books by their own aspirations and genre. This book sets a very high bar for prose that I don't think it fully maintains- things fall apart. There's also a lot of talk of indigenous practices and thought with no native characters present- to the point where it feels like there's a hole in the story.
This book is an awakening. Many moments where the writing, a line or a paragraph, merited a pause to soak in. Open-hearted to the point of being perhaps too sentimental (impassioned). Long before the end, I cared deeply about these characters and their journeys.
This story succeeds at lifting the blindfold off the reader for just a moment to say "we all see it, too", but in response to the hyperobject of climate change, perhaps a bit too insistently fatalistic. The reality of what is coming is stranger than that, but then again, The Overstory knows this and offers up a mythic strangeness, like a mythology of collapse times that charts the major resistance moments of the era as backdrop. Very special.
This book is an awakening. Many moments where the writing, a line or a paragraph, merited a pause to soak in. Open-hearted to the point of being perhaps too sentimental (impassioned). Long before the end, I cared deeply about these characters and their journeys.
This story succeeds at lifting the blindfold off the reader for just a moment to say "we all see it, too", but in response to the hyperobject of climate change, perhaps a bit too insistently fatalistic. The reality of what is coming is stranger than that, but then again, The Overstory knows this and offers up a mythic strangeness, like a mythology of collapse times that charts the major resistance moments of the era as backdrop. Very special.