enobong's Reviews (492)

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

Jayne Allen

3.75

emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Perpetual West

Mesha Maren

3.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

If I Had Your Face

Frances Cha

4.0

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

Philipp Dettmer

3.75

informative fast-paced

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

3.5

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m giving this one solid 3 stars. Tolstoy intricately weaves together multiple lives and has a talent for writing the inner depths of human experience. There isn’t a single character whose motivations are not intimately explored and there are some chapters and passages that are the pinnacle of great writing. However this book did not need to be this long! I could have cut at least a quarter of the chapters with no despair. Kill your darlings Tolstoy.