A review by readingwithcoffee
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with eBook by Jules Verne

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Need to reread because I liked the prose a LOT and I want to sit with Nemo’s issues more but the narrator made me sleepy. That said while it’s 19th century book written by a white man there is a lot of racism especially calling people savages for a book who’s speaking cast is entirely white that I think readers who care about racism should know before reading. It also doesn’t even seem that relevant to the story one way or another and if anything confused the novels awareness of some countries being oppressed with the implication by a European one. 
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