1.33k reviews for:

When We Were Birds

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

3.82 AVERAGE

jules_25's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Complicated

britlovestoread's review against another edition

4.0

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This was a very interesting and pretty unique read for me. I originally bought it based entirely on the cover without even reading the synopsis, but once I read the synopsis I was really looking forward to reading it.

It started a little slow and I don't know exactly what I expected, but it was different than I thought it would be.
I struggle sometimes with magical realism but I feel like it was done really well in this book.

I loved the ending, I thought it was really sweet and wrapped everything up very well.

autumnmilburn's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious 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

sunburntghost's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

mariew11's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense 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

akizato's review against another edition

3.5

dark hopeful mysterious relaxing sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

sarahlou79's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

belwooga's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark hopeful 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: Yes

pmatallana's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

hasin_dreaming's review against another edition

5.0

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literally a fever dream