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A review by halcyonuncoil
Watership Down by Richard Adams
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I picked this book up when I was six years old on a camping trip and terribly homesick. I, being a small child, thought 'oh look, bunnies, it'll be like reading Redwall'.
Spoiler: It was not like reading Redwall.
I re-read this book as an adult, knowing that there was going to be gratuitous amounts of bunny fighting and possible fatality and found other reasons to love it:
The writing is whimsical enough to feel light even though the text itself is quite heavy;the fridge horror of feeding wild rabbits for meat ; the psychological warfare of having a chief rabbit who is not the strongest rabbit in the group (fluffle?) ; the value of being kind; the value of being a shifty asshole; that character dynamic though.
5/5 would read again
Spoiler: It was not like reading Redwall.
I re-read this book as an adult, knowing that there was going to be gratuitous amounts of bunny fighting and possible fatality and found other reasons to love it:
The writing is whimsical enough to feel light even though the text itself is quite heavy;
5/5 would read again