Interesting, but no one likes to feel like their novel is preaching to Information than exposition dumps disguised as dialog. Writer-surely there must have been a better way to embed the Serve as a way to soapbox global warming. Multi-page conversations that do little to advance the plot, but instead Look, I’m not a climateĬhange denialist, and I largely sympathize with Ovid’s (and Kingsolvers)Ĭoncerns about the environment. Kingsolver’s prose is excellent-her language is evocativeĪnd warm without being overblown, and it’s well-suited for describingĪfter getting about midway through the book, I began to have He’s the most developed character outside ofĭellarobia herself, and when the two of them share a scene, things work Scientist-entomologist, probably-who arrives on Dellarobia’s farm to Whose migratory patterns have been messed up by climate change.Īre other characters, the primary one being Ovid Byron, a Turns out the “fire” is actually a massive migration of butterflies Side of the mountain appears to be on fire. Planning to cheat on her husband, only to have her mind changed when the Plot was intriguing: Dellarobia climbs the mountain behind her house, Prose was good, the main character, Dellarobia, was well-drawn, and the I was extremely excited to receive anĪdvance copy for review, and, at first, it met my expectations. Struggled a little with how to review Flight Behavior because myįeelings about it are conflicted.
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