A review by senchastories
Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I gotta be honest, I have no idea what this book was trying to achieve. As a character study it fell pretty flat for me, as there didn't seem to be a consistent line of development for either main character, but it definitely wasn't a plot-driven novel either. This book ends without any kind of resolution, which I don't always take issue with, but in this instance it felt totally unsatisfying after not getting anything out of the rest of the story. I wasn't a fan of the narrator, which definitely didn't help, but even without that added annoyance I didn't really find anything in this to love.

(Also I'm still not over the author calling a flying squirrel "exotic" when they are literally native to New York)