shafia42 's review for:

Watership Down by Richard Adams

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This book follows a group of rabbits as they try to find a new home, and create a new society while under turmoil. Seemingly too sweet to function, this book is more like liquorice; the idea of it is sweet, but leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. Do remember, I love liquorice. 

This book includes themes of war, genocide, oppression, body horror, blood and gore. This book was hauntingly beautiful, its prose so eloquent, and the characters really became your family by the end. Adams is an expert at what he does, he made rabbits human but also exemplified the difference between man and rabbit. The rich world of the rabbits was exemplified through the use of rabbit vocabulary, and I really enjoyed how the words weren’t explained, and that throughout our time with this book we were able to become rabbits, and understand the way the rabbit world works through context clues. 
 
I, like many others loved the rabbit lore and the adventures of the black rabbit; this really made the world seem so tangible. Overall, this book wasn’t a page turner but I loved it anyway. It was a book that sat with you, and required focus to really enjoy. This book was full of heart.  8/10