A review by foxreadsbooks
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

emotional hopeful slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

While Other Birds wasn't quite what I imagined, this held up. The writing is engaging, as is the cast of characters which make up this novel, but underlying the novel is a feeling of grief that I wasn't expecting. The 'mystery' and the 'twist(s)' are not particularly gasp worthy, and once you understand the ghosts, you can see where pigeon's character is going, but is moving nonetheless.

What didn't work for me was that this often felt disjointed. It could have used 50 more pages to tie core elements and characters together, especially with Charlotte. I also did not appreciate the comment that a character was selfish for choosing not to have children, especially in a novel where all the characters have traumatic childhood as a result of neglect. 





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