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ellie_cripps 's review for:
The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
Cannot tell you how much I wanted to love this book, and I honestly did enjoy the beginning, until I realised that essentially that was all I was in for. The characters might do some entertaining survival work at first, but it turns into relentless descriptions of scientific processes/ biology/ any other possible complex subject. The characters have little to no interpersonal drama, literally every piece of important information comes from the same character (who the rest of them follow like hypnotised puppies for the whole book) and Captain Nemo is a Deus Ex Machina who literally destroys every possible moment of tension from start to finish.
Let them struggle! It would make for a far more interesting book! But I will say, I enjoy survival and adventure books, so though this one let me down, I had a good enough time with this all the same.
Let them struggle! It would make for a far more interesting book! But I will say, I enjoy survival and adventure books, so though this one let me down, I had a good enough time with this all the same.