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Pelican Girls by Julia Malye

timetoread_more2022's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

towanda000's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional informative sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

ikandree's review

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I DNFd this at 43%.  

I wanted to like this book. (But do we ever pick a book not wanting to like it?) A story set in 1720 about Parisian women prisoners being sent to Louisiana to become wives sounds intriguing.  This wasn't that.  The story moved very slowly and was mainly character driven. Problem was that we didn't stay with one character enough to like or care about them.  Their backgrounds and plot weren't linear so it was difficult to care. The POV kept changing so by the time we understood a character, their time was over.

And this might just be a me thing, but there were so many French names, words, and phrases, that I spent a majority of my time trying to figure out what was being said.  If I had had a physical copy, I don't know if I would have made it 30%, but even on the Kindle, there were only so much it could do.

macknz_p's review against another edition

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

2.5

julia62's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

andieevalee's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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

3.0

daschneider's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Deep dive into recreating the lives of a group not often recognized: women brought to the French colony in North America. The chapters alternate among the women but in a way that, to me, chops up the narrative. 

tiffanybruns's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative sad

3.5

juliales's review against another edition

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adventurous sad slow-paced
  • Loveable characters? No

3.5

Story and history really interesting, characters kind of annoying and hard to figure out some of the different storylines 

_a_minha_biblioteca's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5