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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
A camera that sees more than what’s in front of it is a great metaphor for fiction—looking at the world and imaging what lies beneath the conscious of it. Of us. And Karen Russel does a great job of just that, bringing a barren landscape to stirring life.
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Glad I stuck with this one - ended up really liking it. As someone who has never stopped thinking about The Giver and enjoyed Four Winds, I liked the way it tackles ideas about memory, both collective and individual, in the Dust Bowl setting. I think Cleo’s story was my favorite and I wish we got more of her. I also wish we got more of Asphodel’s love story! Audio book was really well done, I liked that format especially since we were switching POVs a fair amount.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Enjoyed the history and prairie witch storylines, but found the basketball, cat, and scarecrow plots overdone and annoying
2 ⭐️ this book was ok for about the first 2/3, the last 1/3 absolutely lost me. It went completely off the rails and nothing that happened made much sense. And talk about a stupid ending!
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
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:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
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:
Complicated
I love how the author used magical realism to fill in what we can’t know about the past or future, and make us reconsider what histories and narratives we’ve been told.