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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

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adventurous funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0


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Sea of Souls by N.C. Scrimgeour

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 40%.
Great worldbuilding, magic and lore, plot, and prose sadly let down by poor execution of tension, character actions, and a couple odd writing devices.

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Shattered Spirits: The Fall of Ishcairn by Cal Black

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adventurous dark inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75


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We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

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

4.5


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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

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dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75


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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0


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Audition by Ryū Murakami

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dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Audtion to me is a great exploration of the unreliable narrator within a horror-thriller setting. Aoyama falls for Asami lightning fast and becomes blinded by his feelings for her. We see her through his eyes, a beautiful, vibrant angel of a young lady. To us, there is nothing to doubt. And yet everybody around him finds her suspicious, and warns him to be careful or even get away. But aside from a couple of weird things which in everyday life I wouldn't necessarily flag as particularly alarming, we do not see any reasons to doubt her. Because we see her through the eyes of a besotted middle aged widower. 

For a moment I just kinda forgot I was reading a horror. It spends the entire book following the setup for Aoyama losing his wife, working through his grief, going through the fake auditions for a movie that mask his true purpose of finding a wife, meeting Asami and falling for her. 

It's very clear that he and the friend that gets the audition set up are not nice people, too. And then everything gets turned up to 11. It's wild. 

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Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan

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dark sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75


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