bookswithlee's Reviews (669)

All the Lonely People

Mike Gayle

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

White Smoke

Tiffany D. Jackson

4.0

Do me a favor, don’t read this book at night.

Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

5.0

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Reread

Content Warnings

2.5 I wanted to love this, but it fell a little flat for me. There were some things I loved and some things that I could have done without

Positives:
Representation of different races and ethnicities
The twist was fun (though predictable)

Negatives:

Characters weren’t introduced well. It was difficult to keep track of who was who because their introductions were lacking.

Hated the audiobook (do not recommend)

I felt like each element of this book was great but it just didn’t fit together cohesively. It was a bit all over the place and that’s where this book truly fell flat for me

I have not read the book by Agatha Christie that this is based off of, so I can’t compare it. However, I wouldn’t critic this book any differently had I read it as this book is a book of its own. I will check out more from this author, but unfortunately this one was not for me.