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4.0
adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 This reimagining of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde recasts the original story's grappling with "otherness" as being Black and queer in Victorian London. I didn't have high expectations going into it but I was blown away by how the story itself was adapted as well as the sense of Victorian language (sometimes authors who try this end up going overboard and the language is unbearably cheesy). It was so well done, in fact, that I am interested in reading the other adapted classics in this series.

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