ahays 's review for:

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

2.5

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This was such a weirdly paced book. Over half of it was very slow exposition and then it really sped up very quickly. I would have liked the ending to have been drawn out and the exposition to have been shorter. It would have been easier to read if there were breaks or new chapters when it switched between character perspectives. A new paragraph would start when it changed perspective, but it was hard to follow. I’ve also never seen such run on sentences (sometimes a full page!). The only reason this book isn’t less stars is because I was intrigued by the concept and was hooked in the last 100 pages.