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The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations by Manly Wade Wellman

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I've picked up the book sorta by mistake - it didn't occurred to me that a writer with a name like "Manly Wade Wellman" could have TWO characters named "John", both of whom have tendency to deal with supernatural (in fairness, Mr. Manly seems to have a whole lot of protagonists, operating in similar fields of paranormal & occasionally meeting each other).
There's a lot of "didn't aged well" elements to the stories, and even more of well established in modern age tropes, presented as "twists", but.. I found myself slowly getting hooked, there's much more research, than usually you would find in short stories like this, written between 1940 and 1970s, for example, and not all of it aged terrible.

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

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adventurous hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

There is an interesting story somewhere in there, but it buried in between all of the High School Rich Kids "oh, woe me, weight of responsibility" Drama...

The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell

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adventurous dark tense medium-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

3.75

I dunno, I like the idea of the book & what it was going for more that I liked the book itself. A lot of it just "didn't age well" edgy 90s tone of the narrative, but even so...

Gogmagog by Jeff Noon, Steve Beard

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adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced