A review by winterbinding
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

3.0

The Poisonwood Bible was a bit of a first for me, in terms of genre. I am not and have never been religious in my life. When I initially read the premise of the novel, I was extremely put off, though the book does a good job of staying away from the direction I was wary it would take. It was recommended to me by a friend from work, who I've gifted a handful of my older books to to encourage her daughter's reading habit; she lent it to me after telling me it was her favorite book, and she'd read it several times. It took me some time to get through, to be honest. I hit about halfway and sort of sputtered out and lost interest for several months. A combination of a somewhat slow middle and my personal life becoming a bit too busy for me to have much energy to really sit down and dedicate myself to soldiering through, I think. Once I picked the book back up, however, I finished up the remainder in about a week, eager to learn where the Price family ends up. I'm far more interested in the climate and political atmosphere of the Congo coming out of the book than I am the characters themselves, as it's not something I've read about before in any extensive matter, so I think I'd like to pursue that a little more now.

Overall an interesting read, though slow at some points. And interesting read that's sparked an interest for me in out similar literature, at the very least.