Reviews - The Ornithologist's field guide to love

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The Ornithologist's field guide to love

India Holton

4.02 AVERAGE

marypetrushko's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

meixmom's review against another edition

3.5

funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

I liked the first few chapters but it was predictable and repetitive.
The magical birds were fun, flying parasol images were delightful.

fleddy05's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book very much reminded me of the movie The Mummy and the Parasol Protectorate series. Definitely a fun rival-to-lovers that doesn't take itself seriously. If you love witty banter, ridiculous English polite society, and cut throat academia, this book is for you.

whimsism's review against another edition

2.5

Loveable characters: No

( 2.5 ✶ ) eh. this was nearly a good book, it had so many of my personal boxes ticked. whimsical setting? check. magical birds? check. silly and comically unrealistic things happening around them? check. weirdly clever puns? check. fun side characters? check. academic focus and historical setting? check.

so it pains me to say that when it came to the most pivotal part of what a romance book must have (*~~cough cough* actually good romance~~), it fell so so so flat. the romance was bad and still managed to sacrifice most of their personality. and i just can’t stand insta-love especially when i was promised rivals? at the very least for them to care so much for their academics? yet i was given a teenager’s inner dialogue.

i can’t help but actually groan everytime i see them together and it made a book that was supposed to be fun feel like a struggle to finish— due to them being so central to the plot, and their encounters being extremely repetitive. just thinking about it is making my head hurt.

i now realize this was supposed to be a DNF/paused when getting through this book made me stop reading for days. i might still give india holton a try some other time since i enjoyed everything but the romance between the characters, but this was so disappointing to me.