jellyfishmotifs 's review for:

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton

5.0

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Super funny and romantic and cheesy and indulgent and silly. My qualm though is with the time period. Its hard to have suspension of belief when the culture of the victorian era directly came from the British Empire colonizing and slaughtering and stealing, yknow? And, like, for a book about magical birds it would've been nice to mention how "oh, slavery and colonialism didnt exist in this story", "here are some black main characters", etc etc. As a white person talking about a white author though, Im sure that strategy would have problems as well, so idk.