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Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver

4.06 AVERAGE

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emawhaleson's review

5.0
emotional hopeful reflective 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

rachellendner's review

3.0

Couldn't get past page 2
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soozereads's review

5.0
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
adventurous tense medium-paced
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

janerc's review

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced
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jennifer_stark's review

4.0

a thoughtful and intelligent read. i love how she explores environmental and natural world issues in such a smart way, also leaving you feeling a homesickness for living outside, extinct trees, moths swarming around a light at dusk, cutting trails in the forest, and living in balance with the land. love how we get the inside look into many characters all coming to grips with this in their own ways.

kaiaschott's review

5.0

Blew me away with its beauty. I loved each of these characters, their worlds, and the special attention to the ecology and magic of the woods. I didn't want it to end.

claryreadsbooks's review

4.5
emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-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

"Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen" (444). 

bigfoot_123's review

4.75
hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

crystalatte's review

4.5
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes