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El bizzar cas del Dottor Jekyll e del Scior Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

119 reviews

james_burridge's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Had to read for English GCSE

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pam_simpson06's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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midnightcomets's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious 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

The biggest spoiler of the book is the one everyone knows, but I still enjoy reading gothic classics immensely, and this has an interesting conversation on the nature of good and evil and the shades of grey people are.

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cakrawala's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

At first, you get bored. In the midway, you'll be "GODDAMN THIS ONE IS GOOD". Lastly, you finished the book with "Ah, it could've been better."

I love this book, one of easy to read classic. The vocabularies are easier to understand compare to another classics. The writing style is also good. The only thing that annoys me was the ending, or I could say, the truth. If it's more realistic, I would give 5 stars without no doubt. A 10/10. Eventhough there's clue for the ending along the way reading, it's still surprised me.

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hayjay's review against another edition

3.25

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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saturnbabe's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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kaanda's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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riverofhorton's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was a very interesting and in places somewhat unexpected read. I knew the basic premise

that Jekyll and Hyde share the same body with Jekyll being the 'good' side and Hyde being the 'bad' side

, but I hadn't anticipated the subtext of repressed homosexuality contained within the Hyde character. I also hadn't expected one of the characters to be accepting of this,

but questioning of the perceived choice of partner

. I also went into this expecting some discussion of substance use based on other media, but I wasn't expecting

the suicide towards the end, I did find this to have been well done within the context of the story however.

Overall, I enjoyed this story and will likely re-read it in the future

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