Reviews with content warning for Injury/Injury detail - Birnam Wood

A whirlwind of a book. Catton writes masterfully flawed characters whose choices are guided by their incomplete understandings of the situations they face.

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challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book explores the difficulty of trying or wanting to try to do good in this world, and the darker sides of ordinary people (and not-so-ordinary). I really enjoyed most of it - the writing is very good and the characters well built, and it takes some sharp twists. I'm not sure how I felt about the ending,

it's very brutal though I think purposefully so to make a point.

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A Shakespearean tragedy told in Austenian internal dialogue by a cast of flawed and largely unlikeable characters — not least because of this being an overwhelmingly white cast playing out their dramas and fantasies of climate apocalypse and hero narratives/saviour complexes on stolen land in colonial-settler New Zealand.

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