Reviews

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns

sanfordc11's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

lucyblack's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I adore Barbara Comyns writing. She is the best. I love how her accolades are all shifty like ‘no one else is quite like her’ ‘strange and unusual’. This is an unsettling and clammy wee novel about a sickness that sweeps through an English village in 1911. Lots about ducks, fevers, flowers, slow moving rivers and a creaky old claustrophobic house. 

helmituuli's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted mysterious

4.5

pixerina's review against another edition

emotional mysterious

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

5.0

Strange and weird and wonderful, achingly vivid. I read it in one sitting. 

mrh29992's review

dark funny reflective tense

4.5

emmaslittlebookshelf's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

1.5

I have no idea what the point of this book was. 

marriedtopages's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.5

subdue_provide75's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

rapgamenancyreagan's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

4.5

halfcentreader's review against another edition

4.0

What a strange little book. I rather liked it! For as macabre as the deaths in the village should have been... I was strangely uplifted by the end of this tale. That grandmother was quite a character! Perhaps it was in the changes brought about by those who died, that left me feeling content.