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1.67k reviews for:

The Book of Love

Kelly Link

3.7 AVERAGE

mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Everything I really liked about this was repeated so often that by the end of the book I didn't like it much anymore. In some ways that folding over of itself upon itself seems to be the point. 
adventurous lighthearted mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

So much fun following the characters and getting surprised by events. 
adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

What an absolutely weird and lyrical and playful book. I've admired Link for sooooo many years and she's only getting better.
slow-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
adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I expected to like this one more than I did.  The premise was unique and the characters were interesting.  The chapters were short so I could zip through several in a sitting... but then it just kept going!  I was invested in how everything was going to turn out, but I think it could have been edited down into a somewhat short book (I started to get bored after a while).

"There are so many novels about falling in love and so few about finding a really good and rewarding job."

"She reads romance novels. She likes the happy endings. Some of them are so bad that she thinks, I could write a better book than this. But even the bad ones are reliable in the end. Love conquers all."

“Too much caffeine and one becomes too aware of the passage of time”


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2025 📖 Read #28/Book 96
challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced
challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes