4.05 AVERAGE

adventurous reflective sad slow-paced
slow-paced
emotional funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Seriously one of my favourite books ever.

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I feel like my rating is influenced by listening rather than reading this. Yes, it’s hard to follow with all the Aurelianos and Jose Arcadios and Amarantas. Yes, there is a purpose to that. It all comes together in such a stunning way. But listening to it felt like reading classic literature for school when you’re just a bit too young for it: it’s just a bit out of reach so although you can see that it’s interesting and beautiful and well written, you can’t connect to it. I will definitely have to reread this. I assume my rating will go up when that happens.
adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

Ok lots of almost and real incest and weird sex.  But actually a lot of thought was put into the female characters for the time period this novel hails from. 
the banana company part was fascinating.
 
adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous challenging funny relaxing fast-paced