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An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

7 reviews

nboudreau21's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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hannah_mayflower's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense 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

A must read for any dystopian fan
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bluejayreads's review against another edition

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I picked this up for concept - a vast demographic imbalance has left 40 million more men that women, so households with multiple husbands are legal - and was actually really excited about it. I did enjoy the idea, and the setting of dystopian near-future China. But the story is told from the perspectives of the woman, the potential new husband, and the two existing husbands, and each one manages to make the narrator sympathetic and the rest of the characters horrible. It's difficult to form any kind of opinion when the characters are shown in such different lights depending on who's narrating. The potential new husband is a hopeless romantic and gets upset when real people don't act out his fantasy, the woman is deeply unhappy because her husbands and child are not exactly how she wants them to be so they must be wrong and broken, one husband is obviously autistic and hated by his wife and treated horribly by everyone for it (as well as being considered disgusting because he's fat), and the other husband didn't get enough narration in the first 24% for me to get a sense of him and the other characters all view him vastly differently. Everyone is unhappy, they all hate each other, and despite a good idea and setting I really do not want to spend any more time with these characters. 
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therewillbefireflies's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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placebogirl's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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cheesepuppy's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional

4.0

What an interesting concept. I think this multiple husband home has potential. It takes a village, right? 

This story was so well written that it felt real and believable. I felt bad for all the characters at different points in the story. Though, I was also mad at each of them. I loved this
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ashmalcom's review against another edition

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dark emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I very much enjoyed this book but it felt like there were SO many false endings that it really started to feel frustrating. I enjoy a slow paced book but there were lots of scenes that I felt could be cut out without detracting from the story or characters. 
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