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Hellboy And The BPRD: The Goddess Of Manhattan by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski

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

3.75

I'd say more enjoyable for the performance rather that writing of the story. It ain't bad or anything, just... nothing special in that department, but highly elevated by the good cast of voice-actors.
Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye by Mark Morris

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

3.25

Magician's Gambit by David Eddings

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adventurous lighthearted mysterious 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? No

3.75

The Things by Peter Watts

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

4.25

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

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

4.5

The Secrets of Umami by D.R. Schoel

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Cute, but felt bit more like reading a script for an episode of a nickelodeon show, rather that a short story.
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The Lord of Castle Black by Steven Brust

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

4.25

The Horror on the Links by Seabury Quinn

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.
 I feel, even for the time there were better contemporary characters with much better writing (Manly Wade Wellman comes to mind for example). 
 Every story is like a whodunit-speedrun, with mystery established, Jules de Grandin going somewhere, then returning to give a long-winded explanation to his friend & us of how did he solved the mystery (usually, in a very boring, straight-forward kinda manner). 
 Second-to-last story I've listened to was about "strange N@groes", who turned out to be "vengeful Hindu", so unreasonably upset by a perfectly civilized massacre of the resistance by the British Company and hypnotizing seeming random British tourists to death.. the last story I've read was solved by the detective asking the police to check for fingerprints on the weapon, left literally at the crime scene - I get that it was, like, 1930s, but still.
The Paths of the Dead by Steven Brust

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adventurous funny lighthearted slow-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? No

4.0