Reviews

Pelican Girls by Julia Malye

bonniem137's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

3.0

rensparks's review against another edition

3.0

why was this SO long. I do appreciate the author and all of their hard work in the historical aspect, but this dragged on!!!!! I genuinely feel like you could take entire chapters out of this book and it wouldn’t change a thing in the plot.

jennybun's review against another edition

3.0

I liked the idea of it. It felt like parts of the story were summarised into a few sentences and other, less interesting, parts were given more detail. Not sure if that was the author’s doing or the editor, but it didn’t quite work.

jessicanpruett's review

medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

bookmaddie's review against another edition

felt really overwritten and i couldn’t find it in me to begin to be invested in the story. i was starting to skim—a bad sign when you’re only just started!! eek!

jcharlton's review against another edition

I couldn’t get into any of the stories. 

sienna3's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

katiecat22's review against another edition

Loved the idea, but not in the mood for a slow historical fiction. Maybe would try again with audio.

aliceclems's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really enjoyed reading this book, especially as a french woman doing a road trip across Louisiana at the same time. 
You can see the author did a looooot of reserching for this book, as it is full of historical details.
I grew attached to the femal characters, they are very diversed, nuanced and well-written.  The sisterhood they build over time is really moving and empowering.
The one negative thing for me was that the story was moving very very fast (sometimes several years between chapters), and as each (long) chapter focuses on one specific character you become very invested in one and then you don’t hear from them for a very long time. 

ecyob's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

3.5