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A Forbidden Alchemy

Stacey McEwan

4.33 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It took me a while to get into this book but I’ll admit I was hooked by the end.
I think the world was really cool and I liked the characters. I think it took me a while to adjust to the writing style 

raerex's review

5.0
adventurous emotional tense
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
adventurous challenging 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: No

bina728's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

Mmcs were children, not feeling it and wasn't sure how long it would last
dark emotional 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

Loved the main characters so much. They were logical, sensible. There wasn’t a rift between them before it made logical sense for there to be. When the MMC truuuly had reason to question her loyalty. To be honest I am questioning it too. Where does she stand?? 

Some of the writing could have been better, many times I didn’t understand the subtext of what was being said. Then suddenly characters are behaving based on things that happened under the surface that I completely missed. After a few times I stopped thinking it was because I was dumb and started suspecting the writing needed to be more descriptive. 

Overall, so well executed. 
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

for once I want a spy book where when the spy falls in love with their mark & switch sides they tell that person everything BEFORE all the bad betrayal shit happens. and i STILL really enjoyed the ending

otherwise - writing was immaculate. I love all of the characters. i’ve never really watched peaky blinders but now I want to.
adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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: Yes