A review by mikchara
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

2.0

2.5?? This oscillated wildly from intriguing and well-written to basically insufferable, pretty much every couple of chapters, and I think it’s what made it so difficult to actually be attached to this book or anything happening in it. Also it was a goddamn SCHLEP, almost 600 pages and the last 1-200 are just Leah griping about how bad she feels to be white and describing her mixed children with various shades of itemized brown. Oh yeah and everyone sucked.

Unlike other negative reviews I can’t say I had any beef whatsoever with the anti missionary anti imperialist messaging. If you’re uncomfortable by the intensity and frequency of it, you literally were not paying attention to the book. Or any history lol.