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awildshey

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

I picked this book up for a cute story and ended up having an existential crisis.

If you are looking for a cute heartwarming story about cats this is not quite it. There are parts that are extremely heartwarming but it dives into real lives, suffering, how systems fail pople,  sexism, and other heavy topics. The book makes great commentary and uses the authors experience with cats to effectively discuss these topics. I do wish the author would have struck to more of a chronological way of telling her story rather than jumping throughout her life. 

Overall I believe this is a good book but it might have been the wrong time for me to read it. Give it a try but dont expect a soft, gooey, easy read.
adventurous challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Normally I love a weird lit fic but this book did not hit for me. I enjoyed the first 60% but my interested took a nose dive the last 40%. By the end I felt the semi decent leadup just fell flat. Maybe this book just wasn't for me. 
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No