Reviews

Menewood: A Novel by Nicola Griffith

caitlincosmian's review

adventurous challenging informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

wordly_and_toggs's review

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

writinwater's review

adventurous emotional slow-paced

5.0

third_bookworm's review

adventurous challenging dark slow-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

4.0

It's very long, and felt like a bit of a slog at some points. But quite good overall.

just_kidding's review

5.0

Nicola Griffith, what have you done to me (and by extension my coworkers, friends, and loved ones who had to deal with me while I read this).

katemayj's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

danicarissa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Menewood feels like falling into a dream you could swear you've had before—at once hauntingly familiar and utterly strange. This book is hefty—720 pages-and it's both a fast & slow read: fast because it's hard to put down-you're caught up with Hild in a bloody, warring world where you go from safety to danger in a blink and you've *got to know* what happens, and slow because the sentences themselves are rich enough you might go back & reread them, just to give them a minute to settle in.

We don't have many stories where women get to be the center *and* be complex: usually they're one or two things & that's about it. But Hild-Hild is gentle and bloodthirsty and loyal and impatient and wise and rash and afraid and imperious and lots of other things— she's a force. She has her own complex nature and the roles she must play (like so many women!) in order to protect herself and her people. But unlike many women, she has the power to alter fates-her own, her people's.

I'm so grateful I found Hild and Menewood. What a gift, to have stories like this.

scramuel058's review

adventurous dark informative 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Child death

Moderate: Incest

rojulian's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Would give it more than 5 stars if possible

mugs_it_is's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.5