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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just never grabbed me, moving on to books I’m more excited about
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
This felt like a fever dream with a bad romance.
adventurous
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I did not like this book. The idea behind the plot had potential and the imagery of the settings were beautiful, but the execution of the plot and the characters was awful.
There’s this one scene at the end where one character is like, “let me live the rest of my life in peace without you,” and then three lines later is like, “I changed my mind I’d rather die knowing you than live without knowing you” and it is so jarring because it is a complete 180 that is so abrupt. And that is what almost the entire book is like. Scenes follow after one another with only the thinnest thread connecting them and characters go back and forth on their choices and feelings constantly. The ending suffers the most because it is so rushed despite the book being almost four hundred pages.
Honestly this is one of my worst reads this year.
There’s this one scene at the end where one character is like, “let me live the rest of my life in peace without you,” and then three lines later is like, “I changed my mind I’d rather die knowing you than live without knowing you” and it is so jarring because it is a complete 180 that is so abrupt. And that is what almost the entire book is like. Scenes follow after one another with only the thinnest thread connecting them and characters go back and forth on their choices and feelings constantly. The ending suffers the most because it is so rushed despite the book being almost four hundred pages.
Honestly this is one of my worst reads this year.
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
This just didn't do much for me. I was very much enjoying the pawnshop part at the beginning, but then that gets 100% set aside and left alone for the rest of the book after maybe 10%? And the kind of whimsical, mythological things happening in Hana's world afterwards just make it hard for me to get into it because there are no rules, so I can't predict anything or see how the pieces get put together. Also, the relationship between Hana and Keishin just did nothing for me. The big twist at the end was interesting, but because it had been so long since the parts related to it had come up, it didn't hit very hard or feel very enmeshed. Overall, a disappointing miss.