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The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

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adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

I really enjoyed this - the romance was cute and incredibly slow-burn, the world-building was really neat, and the narration was really enjoyable. I had such a fun time following them around the world, learning about all of the various cultures on the planet and how the various alien races were combined on it. I enjoyed that the planet wasn't monolithic, because of course it wouldn't be! Too often people fall into the trap of "every culture on this planet is the same" because that world-building is hard.

My only frustration was at how disjointed the narration could be, at times - there wasn't a great flow between scenes, and things would get brought up really suddenly without much foreshadowing, although I thought they were all followed up on very well and organically. I just wanted more hints about their deep conflicts before we were introduced to them. For example,
Ioan isn't foreshadowed well at all, and I think he really should have been, since it was such an important part of Delarua's life.
And since the actual event is then wrapped up pretty fast, it made it feel less important than it was, despite the continued references to it down the line.

But ultimately I had a really good time reading this, so I'm still rating it 4.5 stars! Emotional enjoyment takes precedence over nitpicky stylistic complaints any day. 
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