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382 reviews

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I've really been enjoying this series.... right up until this book!

Characters make weird decisions that feel very close to being out of character. They all act on the worse parts of their nature. The character development is downwards rather than upwards. The plot swings around wildly and didn't capture my attention. Others have called this a filler book and it definitely feels that way - more so even than the last book that was very long for the amount of time it actually covered.

Then, deaths! So many people die and, again, feels completely unnecessary or as if it's for the emotion factor.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

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dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Eight Will Fall by Sarah Harian

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

I really struggled with this one at it was very nearly a DNF. The pacing was chaotic. It moved so fast that I sometimes had to reread a preceding paragraph to make sure I hadn’t missed some text that took us to the sudden plot development.
Characters had no depth, I didn’t care about any of them. Character deaths seemed arbitrary and pointless. I just found the whole thing a mixture of boring and chaos.

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

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dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced