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The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook: 200 Deliciously Simple Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker

Coco Morante

3.75

informative fast-paced

Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food

Julia Turshen

3.25

hopeful informative lighthearted fast-paced

Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus

Yasmin Khan

4.5

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

The Cold Cold Ground

Adrian McKinty

3.25

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Those We Left Behind

Stuart Neville

4.5

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

China Room

Sunjeev Sahota

4.0

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to like this book more than I did. But I felt like at the end I was left with more questions than answers. The Mehar part of the story was good. A little rolls-eyes-worthy at times, but I did enjoy it. And I did enjoy the 1990s bits. But I was left with so many questions about that portion of the book. The author spent so much time of that story on trivial things - describing the farm that we already know about from Mehar's story, talking about painting, the progress on the statue, etc. - that at the end I couldn't say I knew him or his story well.