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374 reviews

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

3.0

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

4.25

dark reflective medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

The Collected Essex County

Jeff Lemire

5.0

challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

one of the few graphic novels I've read where I truly believe no other medium could have been used to tell this story. This is not simply a story with picture to go along, it is a story told through images.

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

4.5

adventurous reflective relaxing medium-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

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

3.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was less a series of interestingly interconnected stories and more a series of short stories, each told halfway then the endings revealed. Which sounds interesting, until your in the last quarter and trying to remember whose story you're in and what the hell is going on.
The book was fine, the stories themselves were really engaging, I'm just a spoiled brat and wanted them all to actually connect in some way