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49 reviews

Priest by Matthew Colville

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

4.75

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

August Blue by Deborah Levy

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challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-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

4.5

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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

3.0

Bad but fun. And I didn't think the smut parts were hot. I will be reading the next one. Characters are almost all dumbasses.
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

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mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Information about the edition: "Published by Grove Press / A division of Grove Press, Inc. / 841 Broadway / New York, NY 10003-4793." Printed in 1993; the January 1 date is a placeholder. First English-language edition. ISBN listed as 0-8021-1516-0, but I guess this was before they included the 978. Also in the LoC Cataloging-in-Publication: PL865.07138K5813 1993 / 895.6'35-dc20 / 92-12871.

Review of the book: bizarre little book! I liked it though. So weirdly matter-of-fact and yet also overwrought.
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Stoner by John Williams

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challenging reflective sad tense 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

5.0

Indelicacy by Amina Cain

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

3.75

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

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

4.0

Jayne is sooo damaged and maladapted that the first half of the book is kind of hard to get through, but the second part really brings it home. Holy moly. 
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The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

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funny reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

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emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-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? Yes

2.25

Extremely not for me but doesn't deserve the 2⭐ among it's target audience.