joepublic's Reviews (23)

Josey Wales: Two Westerns: Gone to Texas/The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales

Forrest Carter

4.75

adventurous tense 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

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

John Preston

5.0

dark informative medium-paced

Midnight at Malabar House

Vaseem Khan

5.0

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke

4.75

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Fractal Noise

Christopher Paolini

4.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini

4.0

adventurous hopeful reflective tense 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

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

DID NOT FINISH: 14%

Library wanted it back.

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

2.5

dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Disappointed. Most of the plot points, main character and ‘big ideas’ felt undeveloped. Cringey in places. The writing itself was weak (too many ‘I’ did this, ‘I’ did that).

The Chalk Man

C.J. Tudor

2.0

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dracula Daily

Bram Stoker

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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