Reviews - The Mighty Red | The StoryGraph

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The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

3.98 AVERAGE

kbramban's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-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: Complicated

lmo2626's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional reflective slow-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: No

alisonvh's review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective sad medium-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

This book is so good!!! It’s about mother-daughter relationships, people who seem to invite disaster but always remain unscathed themselves, the people we’re drawn to temporarily and the people we’re drawn to permanently.

It’s so good!!!

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entropy42's review

3.75

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

elundberg951's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny medium-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

sarahawkins's review against another edition

4.5

hopeful informative mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Its only demerit was that it was a bit slow in the second quarter. I loved the “quirky” aspects to it and the magical realism. She’s a character master.

ylimegwen's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sparklefarm's review

4.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Louise Erdrich very rarely writes villains, and there are none in this book. Everyone is whole, full of flaws and charms, enraging and endearing (some more one way than the other, it's true). Wonderfully, richly written. It's about climate, marriage, and trauma, and at the same time it's not - it's about the people entwined in all of that. I'm used to Erdrich narrating her own books, but this one was done skillfully by Marin Ireland - a favorite narrator of mine, so a great pairing.

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