A Booker Prize finalist apparently, but to me Jamrach's Menagerie was a workman-like nineteenth-century adventure story. Well-written, entertaining enough, but nothing too original. The early part of the book, before our narrator hero Jaffy Brown heads to sea, felt like a static painting of colorful life on the London docks. The most compelling part of the story was the capture and transport of the Komodo dragon -- the dragon himself was the best character.
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