Reviews

The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

oliver's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

miamon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

pastavoyage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

billycancreek's review against another edition

4.0

3.5 stars.

gabby_ab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

hillzye's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Intense, beautiful, mysterious, 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

Minor: Dysphoria, Animal cruelty, and Torture

synoptic_view's review against another edition

Awesome modern fables. Really loved the first ~2/3rds when I had no idea what the story was going to be about and just went along for the ride. The last third was also good but by then I understood where the plot was headed.

By the end, the book reminded me a lot of [b:Ice|636223|Ice|Anna Kavan|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328830578l/636223._SX50_.jpg|622507], in a good way. It didn't have the cool and weird writing style of Ice, but in most other ways, it was an improvement on a similar story.

morningbooks's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

medievaljenga's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

starrwad's review against another edition

4.0

Hard one to review. While I liked the story itself and its premise is original, it seems that this book could not decide what it wants to be. First, you get a story of one situation (in 3rd person), and once you're comfortable there, you are abruptly taken to an entirely different story (in 3rd person). Then, it changes again to a 1st POV ... that wasn't established previously. POV changes--totally fine--but imo, not like this.

I still enjoyed the story and would rec it to those who like dystopian stuff (this is kind of dystopian-lite).

Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of this ARC.