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Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel
3.75
dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was engaging and I'm glad I read it, but it also felt a little like digging through someone else's very dirty laundry.

The author also has an odd habit of using a comma where a semicolon, or a comma-plus-conjunction, would be grammatically correct. It made the prose more conversational, but personally I found it mildly annoying and distracting.

Favorite Quotes:

In the pit, the easiest way to dismiss a female's work was by calling it domestic. Or decorative.

In middle school she'd taken us for frozen yogurt every Friday, teaching us among other things that the rudest thing you can say to someone is usually polite—her favorite was, I'll pray for you.

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