Reviews

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

sydneybooks13's review against another edition

I don’t enjoy the writing style and jumping around in time. It’s also not very interesting to me despite being pretty weird. 

gwynethblythe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Really enjoyed it - beware time jumps 

kaeleevincent's review against another edition

5.0

Wow, just wow.
It felt slow to start, but that could have just been me being distracted. Once I got started though, I couldn’t get through it fast enough. It was moving, emotional, nostalgic, and powerfully haunting towards the end. It was also extremely vivid without being excessively drawn out.

Definitely added to my go-to list of Eden Robinson recommendations.

abbimoralesss's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

grayjay's review against another edition

5.0

A moving coming of age story about a young woman growing up outside of Kitimat. Through her ups and downs, Robinson paints an intimate picture of a family and how it loves, how it handles grief and trauma. Woven into their lives of a kind of magic that is close through dreams and through a close relationship with the woods and the sea.

mallikareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

str4wb3rryym1lk's review against another edition

4.0

what what what what
this whole book has been so confusing and very good but the end left me with more questions than answers!!

lsparrow's review against another edition

5.0

I loved this book. The flow of the narrative, the physical sense of the story, the way that you are pulled on the many journeys taken, the magical/unexplained, the way by the end I could hardly bear to face another loss.

elle_g's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

3.0

abi22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0