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Pushing Up Daisies by M.C. Beaton
2.0
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The narrative jumps between POVs at a whim and the book's formatting doesn't aid in calling out the transitions. There are even times where there's several line breaks as if a transition is happening but the same POV and scene continues. Definitely makes the book feel like a run-on-sentence jumping to whatever suits the author.

I found the large cast of characters quite unwieldy, and the constant flirting and romance attempts choppy. 

Normally this would be a DNF for me, but I wanted to see how this author would wrap up all the threads, and there still seemed to be too many throw away storylines.

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