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Beli oleander

Janet Fitch

4.0 AVERAGE


re-read one of my favourite books because it's one of my favourite books, and safe to say it is still one of my favourite books.

i love women. i love warped and twisted allegiances, and the urge to both detangle and ensnare yourself further in someone's web. beautiful. i am in prose heaven.
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Can’t believe this has been on my shelf untouched for so long. Definitely has a spot in my top reads of all time

Moving and disturbing, exactly how I like a story to effect me.
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It’s an okay book. Glad I listened to it and didn’t read it. Not as great as I expected
challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“The Roman’s were right.One can bear anything.The pain we cannot hear will kill us outright.”


“He said the reason we studied history was to find out why things were the way they were, how we got here.He said you could do anything you wanted to people who didn’t know their history.That was the way a totalitarian system worked”

It doesn’t mean anything only to other people
What was beauty unless you intended to use it? It was for other people to use or admire, or envy or despise .To jail genie drama into like a picture hanger in a blank wall.And so many girls saying ,use me, dream me.”
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes