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Jaws

Peter Benchley

3.49 AVERAGE


My beach read!
adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Truly terrifying! The description of the cold eyes of the Great White looking directly at the men is chilling. The possibility of such leviathans roaming the seas is quite real too, unfortunately. A great read, indeed!
adventurous dark informative sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I LOVE jaws…the film. this was so vastly different. the actual parts involving the shark were fantastic, and i expected it to be so. but the rest of the book…odd. there were some random things that seemed racist to me, and then there’s the whole cheating arc. i felt so uncomfortable reading it, and it was so descriptive, i just felt like i was in a bag and was slowly being vacuum sealed. and the mafia crap was super random. 
2 stars only for the shark side of the story. 
challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It’s not often I say this, but the movie was better. Still glad I read it though & will be reading the other books
emotional informative tense fast-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: No
tense medium-paced
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Differs to the film, but still a good read. The ending was extremely sudden and abrupt which ruined the story for me
adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No