A review by iszys
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr

reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

After loving Cloud Cuckoo Land and All The Light We Cannot see, this collection of short stories was a bit of a disappointment. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully, but the stories themselves just didn't do it for me. They were slow and felt a bit repetitive. It also weirded me out that out of eight stories, two involved romantic relationships between teenage girls and 30+ year old men... The attempted romance in his later novels were my least favorite parts of those books, so it makes sense that I really didn't like it here where it is much more prominent.
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