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maddyjimei 's review for:
Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
This book was a wild ride! At first, I didn’t expect this book to be so suspenseful, but it really was a thriller.
- I like how catton develops all of her characters so thoroughly and with so many facets (I also read the luminaries and this was similar). All the main players are all so purposefully and deeply flawed. Tony was particularly insufferable, but he gave me a good chuckle a few times with his internal dialogue. The fact that he actually was such a survivalist was shocking to me.
- At times, it seemed like the point of deep characterization or the purpose of dialogue between characters was not to advance the plot, but for catton to say random things she wanted to say, but I also found that kind of interesting.
- I have no qualms with the book’s ending except to say that it seemed a little unlikely that Lemoine went that direction, but I guess his hand was forced? Idk!
- I like how catton develops all of her characters so thoroughly and with so many facets (I also read the luminaries and this was similar). All the main players are all so purposefully and deeply flawed. Tony was particularly insufferable, but he gave me a good chuckle a few times with his internal dialogue. The fact that he actually was such a survivalist was shocking to me.
- At times, it seemed like the point of deep characterization or the purpose of dialogue between characters was not to advance the plot, but for catton to say random things she wanted to say, but I also found that kind of interesting.
- I have no qualms with the book’s ending except to say that it seemed a little unlikely that Lemoine went that direction, but I guess his hand was forced? Idk!