852 reviews for:

The Antidote

Karen Russell

4.14 AVERAGE

faithelaine's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rissaroo_reads's review

4.5

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jenwinnell's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

smobrien's review

2.25

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

erin04's review

3.0

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I struggle with this book. It was beautifully written with some great quotes but the overall story did not have me engaged. 

fuette's review

5.0

dark informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

medievalmeal's review

5.0

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one of my favorite things I’ve read all year. Gorgeous sentence level prose that swept me away. It reminded me a lot of Kindred by Octavia Butler. Our collective imagination for the future has more power when we nurture our collective memory. Viva la genre fiction novel!!!

kermittuesday's review against another edition

3.75

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I liked the book but it was a struggle to keep reading it. I'm not sure what the point of many of the magical elements was so some of that was a little much. 

caseyae96's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

cpinsky's review

4.5

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No