A review by charbck
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

this story is beautiful. it was the exact thing i needed right now. maybe it sent me into an episode? but it was worth it. its about time and language and how humans keep going forever and destroy so much but create so much. and its about climate change and how easy it is to get indoctrinated/radicalized/convinced of a “truth.” and how even though we are all born into what we think is the end of the world actually there are thousands of years of humans before us and there will be more thousands of years of humans after us… maybe. but at least a good few hundred. and even though we dont think we can relate to people 500 years ago or 1000 years ago we all go through the same anxieties and griefs and joys. and human advancement is scary but its not all bad. and how what we think we are stuck in forever at age 10 we will be completely out of and in a whole new place by age 25. and the sky will keep being pretty. ADD THE LGBTQIA TAG TO THIS BOOK!!! 

this is really a book for Us Right Now. it especially hits i think for my generation, im the exact same age as seymour, and like seymour i am also incredibly frightened for my own future and the future of our planet. and like all the characters in the book i cant shake this feeling that i am living at the end of human history. but cloud cuckoo land reminds us that life circumstances change and we, and our grandchildren, end up okay. this is like book Everything Everywhere to me

this should be all over booktok and booktube and everything, i cant believe this was just something i picked up at barnes bc there was a discount and id heard zero reviews
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