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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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mac_snider's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

- Never ever has a book started to strong and ended so weakly
- it all went downhill after Vegas
- Boris is one of my most disliked characters of all time
- So long for no reason

curer_bell's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lunkbunk's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

jlkim's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

alicebme's review against another edition

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5.0

Ouch. A beautiful mess of a book.

christilee_'s review against another edition

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3.0

I would’ve loved to give it 5 stars as the story and writing is superb. But this book DRAGGED. I had to force myself to finish it cause I wanted to see where it went. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to finish it. -1 star for how much it dragged and basically said nothing with the most amount of beautifully written words. -1 another star as almost all the characters spoke almost exclusively in monologues, and that got very tired very quickly