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The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

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reflective slow-paced

4.25

Beautiful musings on travel and life and death and passion and belief and conflict and love 
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

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

4.5

The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker

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challenging mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

What an onion!!! Layer by layer, this set of narrative Russian dolls unpeeled itself. 
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

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

4.0

Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Excellent spy novel, with a lovely look at the day to day and bureaucratic operational side of spying 
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

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emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Phenomenally creative, deeply scary, profoundly sad 
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

Masterful. Fucking five stars. 
Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

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

3.0

Some of it was lovely, especially the window into Iranian culture, but the writing was a little overwrought and the plot felt a bit like every other romance I’ve read where someone hides something and then it explodes and then they become a better person to try to get their person back… which would be a spoiler if it weren’t so obvious from the beginning. 
Cat Massage Therapy Vol. 1 by Haru Hisakawa

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

3.0

Very, very silly