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Watership Down

Richard Adams

4.04 AVERAGE

hilareeads's review against another edition

2.75

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Adams does his best to distract you with adorable descriptions of the bunnies and you'll want to dive into a pile of satin-furred fluffs the entire book. But make no mistake. This is a story about war and power, and how men are obsessed with both and how there is the constant need to own more and more. Even the "hero" rabbit of the story is not opposed to sacrificing others, though he pretends the way he does it is way better than the way the "villains" do it. It all goes to show that war isn't glamorous or heroic and that even if it achieves peace, the blood will stain the ground forever.

paleflyer's review against another edition

4.0

This was a surprisingly good book. I say surprising because I figured reading about rabbits would be boring or weird and I wasn't all that excited about reading about the adventures of talking wildlife. But the writer did them justice! It felt pretty real, which I think made the book. He worked with the limitations rabbits might actually have instead of making them human; they still felt like rabbits. It made me feel actually more empathetic towards smaller animals that you might not really consider before. I thought the story was very well written and engaging, entertaining, (the only parts I didn't enjoy as much were the stories the rabbits would tell – I find that is pretty common in my reading though, I get bored when the writer starts having his characters tell stories, like in The Way of King’s when they’d have the dreams, etc. It’s not that the stories were bad, I think it’s just I wanted to keep reading about the rabbits and I didn't like the interruption!) The story ended pretty happily, and while there were a ton of scrapes that you thought might end up badly, no one really ended up too much the worse for wear. I enjoyed it a lot.

_meeg's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous reflective

mrocto's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

okon's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ryanporter7's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

hob029's review against another edition

3.0

dark hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

This book is OK I liked the idea of seeing the dangers of the world through the eyes of the rabbits but I felt it dragged in parts. I wouldn't read it again .