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Strike Me Down

Mindy Mejia

3.75

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

3.5

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz

2.5

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really liked the premise of the book, but the main character wasn’t compelling. I pushed myself to read 100 pages and by that time I wanted to know what the plot twist ending was. This is a fairly quick read with some good tension, but just wasn’t for me.