A review by alainral
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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

5.0

This book does exactly what it sets out to do: provide a cozy, low-stakes, and life-affirming story of personal discovery. It's about sitting with a lack of direction and all the anxieties of being alive, wanting to have a sense of purpose and not knowing what that even is or how to achieve it. It's also about the simple pleasures and beauties of life.

This book has achieved a niche no other really has, and it's a landmark for representation in literature, with its polytheistic, monastic, nonbinary protagonist. It develops a reverence for the nonhuman, blurring the lines between the natural and constructed world we typically think of in binary.
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