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Monkey Beach: A Novel, by Eden Robinson

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marycamus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Wow, just finished it and it is a gut-punch of a novel. While it was always good, the last 15 pages truly are transformative and transcends the work from good to something that will stay with and haunt me for a lifetime.

studiouslysarcastic's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

klimts15thchild's review against another edition

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lighthearted sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

heatherli25's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

ansella's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5 stars. This book was kinda weird. It was also really confusing. I felt like the jumps in time were not that clear, so sometimes I did not realize how old she was or was supposed to be at any given moment. The writing was really nice, but it was a pretty tragic book though. I didn't get the connection between her vision of the short man and the events in her life until way too long into the book. It definitely had a bit of a creepy factor which was nice, but I felt like the different parts of the story were more disconnected than they should have been.

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I can't wait until book club so someone can explain what the ending is supposed to mean bc I am dumb and don't feel like thinking too hard about it