A review by paleflyer
Watership Down by Richard Adams

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.