hallereads's Reviews (197)

The Nakano Thrift Shop

Hiromi Kawakami

4.25

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

Assembly

Natasha Brown

5.0

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes

4.75

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

2.5

dark emotional sad fast-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

The Sanatorium

Sarah Pearse

3.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Pandora

Susan Stokes-Chapman

4.25

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

Hilma Wolitzer

3.75

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Luster

Raven Leilani

3.5

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sadly this is going to be an unpopular review because I just didn’t love it as much as I was expecting to. however, there was a lot of things I did love: the racial and social navigation of edie through just plainly trying to survive. the passages of edie’s incredible artistic abilities. the quite chaotic storyline. edie, akila and rebecca were all pretty cool characters. I liked the writing, albeit sometimes things were dragged to the point I could feel my eyes drifting to the next page.

things I didn’t enjoy: the way I was only looking forward to the end/beginning of each chapter because it seemed to be the only place the action was happening. there was a lot of pages I just felt bored and worn out reading. I think most of the characters weren’t fully developed and I was left hoping for more from the book.

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.5

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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