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The Chemist

Stephenie Meyer

3.56 AVERAGE


The dogs! Einstein, Lola, Kahn I mean come on! I loved them so much and was a very unexpected part of the storyline that I was not anticipating. Kevin and Alex are such badasses. Did not care much for the love interest in the story, just seems ridiculous for the two to love each other such early on in the story and to love each other period given how they met. Other than that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time just waiting to see what happened next.
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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 would love to re-read this book ⚝

There was not anything particularly wrong with the story. It was just not for me. I tried a genre I've not tried before and I don't like it.

Good book. Strong female heroine and good characters. Suspenseful and exciting book to read. Liked the ending and looking forward to further books by this author.

I see the Bourne connection. And it also reminded me a little bit of [book:The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo|2429135], but maybe only because it's a female protagonist in an action-situation. I can't believe I still haven't read [book:The Host|1656001]. Will definitely be bumping it up on my list after reading this.
tense medium-paced
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark emotional funny informative tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

sneakyawe's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

This book is awful. Don't know why I even bothered.

This book was kind of like a mediocre summer spy movie. There were some fun action scenes to keep you engaged and reading, but the romantic subplot was weak at best and felt very forced. The undertones about ~pOliTicS aRE dUmB~ were out of place and felt entirely injected by the author to make a personal point and didn’t exactly play with the tone of the story, and there was also a lot of callous violence by the “protagonists” that could have sparked interesting moral conflict/dilemma but instead was literally never addressed again (no mention of Carston’s daughter or granddaughter after he dies? They don’t matter anymore?) I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t great. Maybe I’ve just grown out of Stephenie Meyer’s writing style.