A review by jamekeith
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

3.5

This is a strange one! I think I really enjoyed it, but also maybe I didn't. I really enjoyed the different pov's, especially when it would jump to someone who seemed completely insignificant. One person in particular was so confusing! But the implicatuions for what happens to them after the ending of the story, just through giving them a random chapter not even close to the end, I thought was quite cool. 

There's never really a mystery here, we are given all of the information. At first I was pretty put off by this, but it manages to draw you in with the mystery of how the characters will figure things out. It's not quite as satisfying for me, especially with

the way it ends. I get that it is a good ending I think. But I wasn't left all that satisfied

. But oh well! 

I like kiwi literature!