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Les yeux dans les arbres

Barbara Kingsolver

4.15 AVERAGE

jennywall's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

katiejmarschall's review against another edition

4.0

yeah “death of parent” really is a minor content warning. good riddance

lannon364's review against another edition

5.0

medium-paced

lucetim's review against another edition

2.0

Read like a children’s book for a large portion of it. Characters seemed unrealistic and I struggled to follow - climactic events happened but I seemed to have missed the build up?

The dated, colonial attitudes presented within mean I struggle to find many redeeming qualities (typically I’m a great believer in allowing characters to be problematic, but this definitely reads like Kingsolver has an agenda).

halezmashburn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

_withmybooks's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A chunky novel to fall head first into. The Poisonwood Bible is one of those modern classic books that has been in my peripheral vision for many years. Finally on reading it, I was pulled in from the start with a dark foreboding tone of an unknown tragedy to come for the Price family, as they follow their Baptist preacher father to the Congo in the late 1950s. Alongside the family’s story — told from each woman’s perspective: Orleanna Price and her four daughters Rachel, Leah, Adah and Ruth May - Kingsolver offers glimpses at the Congo’s history, considering beginning and end an Africa free from colonisation.