tonyatemplar 's review for:

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

4.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Corporate greed & destruction of the environment combined with murder & a group of environmental activists who aren't above a bit of law making themselves makes for an intruiging story.

Fast paced and extremely dark in places.  Emotional entanglements that take place amongst all that happens make for quite heightened emotional stories too. Which exactly reflects how tangled & messy humans are.  Greed, lust, desire, guilt, noble ambitions ... all this makes for great reading.