A review by enchanten
Shardik by Richard Adams

2.0

I bought this book with Watership Down, I had no idea that Richard Adams was such a descriptive writer, if i had i wouldn't have picked the books up. I handled the first chapter well with the fire chasing the creatures from their homes but after that i began to skim and skip pages just to get some two sentence dialogue.

I thought this was a spiritual story of a bear but the main character is this weak 'simpleton' that is easily swayed and so drab, the other character were also pretty bland and i found them rather boring. Shardik himself is merely a tool of revolution and perhaps just a symbol of hope after the destruction and war.




To sum up this book in one word: long


this book could have been so much shorter without all the unnecessary babbling.