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4.2 AVERAGE

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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: Yes

Los horrores reales, políticos, se entretejen con lo oculto, lo místico, lo que devora y exige sacrificios, en esta novela que te atrapa y te encoge el alma (aprobatory).

Due back at the library before I could finish. The writing was gorgeous but I suspect it would have been too dark of a read for me.
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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
dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to like this so bad! The description was right up my alley. I was disappointed. It was very boring and dragged on. I did listen to it on audio so I have some issues that are audio specific/may be just in the audio version.

-The narrator ended every sentence on a downward inflection. I feel like this worsened the monotony of the already drawn-out writing
-The chapters were mostly 6hrs+ This is unnecessarily long as there are natural breaks in the story.
-The long chapters, the lack of auditory morkers to denote chapter change, and frequent point of view changes without any easy indication made this really hard to follow. Sometimes I would be listening for 20min until I realised we didnt just change scene, but also character POV.