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Tornado Weather by Deborah Elaine Kennedy

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challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

2.75

Not my cup of tea. Some of these characters are interesting - but most aren't and very few feel like real folks. 
Nobody Move by Philip Elliott

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adventurous dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This aspires to be an Elmore Leonard novel - not that that is a bad thing. 
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

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dark funny reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Dark and dense
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Capote is a tremendous writer but it strikes me that Perry might have bamboozled him a bit. 
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

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dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The Kill-Off by Jim Thompson

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dark fast-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

4.25

Each chapter moves the story along from the perspective of a different character. It is an interesting way to tell a story and those characters are extremely interesting. 
All His Pretty Girls by Charly Cox

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dark mysterious medium-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? No

2.75

This takes some rather bizarre turns and uses some bizarre language. 
The Hunter by Richard Stark

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dark tense 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

4.5

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious by Ross Douthat

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emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

This isn't ground breaking but it is well written and informative. 
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

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dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This has everything I like but I didn't like it.