neilazaara 's review for:

Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson

2.5

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was by far my least favourite in the series. I came in for some fun light moomin adventure time and I received depression, sadness and melancholy. This is almost an alternate universe moomin story. I like the dry jokes and dark humour we get in these books but here there was not a single smile, it was just slow and long and quite frankly morose…