1.76k reviews for:

Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

4.06 AVERAGE

gwenhwyfar82's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nikigajjar's review

3.0

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I loved so many parts of this book, her wonderful descriptions of the landscape and nature, all the characters were interesting and charming, and their stories wove together in a really nice way at the end.

It’s not a five stars to me compared to her other work and it felt like it really started to lag for me in the middle - it was a VERY long book and my attention span to long sections with descriptive language dropped towards the end

ehrin's review against another edition

4.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

amelie5m's review

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Yes

samanthatully's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad 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

swamp__hag's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

caldwba0's review

4.25

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mdenney5's review

3.5

emotional reflective slow-paced

jill_reads's review

5.0

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Ohhhhh my. This book was an utter delight. I don’t even know how to describe it properly but I read the last sentence and then whispered to myself “damn” and I guess that sums it up. As others have mentioned, I nearly gave up on this book when it starts inexplicably with a kind of horny fan-fic vibe but it really recovers and develops into a rich, wonderful tale of three humans and their growth into themselves. I will say the repeated sex scenes were a bit eye-roll worthy but maybe I was just being a prude. The chapters about the old man Garnett completely made it up to me though, so humorous and witty and ultimately sweet.

This is immediately one of my favourite novels, I think, and I look forward to reading more by Kingsolver.

littlefury's review

3.75

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes