elzbethmrgn's Reviews (667)

Written on the Dark

Guy Gavriel Kay

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Kraken

China Miéville

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Catherine Nixey

4.0

funny informative medium-paced

The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji

2.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The Forsyte Saga

John Galsworthy

4.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

2.0

The City in Glass

Nghi Vo

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

This thing is so ornately written, it would taste amazing on the tongue but I don't have it in me to sit down and make the words stand still enough to digest them.

The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages

Sara J. Charles

3.75

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

4.5

adventurous challenging dark funny 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

Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers

Emma Smith

4.0

informative inspiring fast-paced

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