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Alice Isn't Dead

Joseph Fink

3.7 AVERAGE

adventurous medium-paced
adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-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: No

I didn't like narrator - try again with physical book. 

this story has stuck with me for months and I recommend it to literally everyone who asks me about books
dark funny mysterious tense fast-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: No

The atmosphere was fantastic, and the descriptions of monsters truly spooky and grotesque and occasionally a little funny (which somehow didn’t contradict the spookiness).
Would recommend highly as an alternative road trip book.
I enjoyed reading something with a sapphic relationship just very casually the primary one, more of this in fiction please.
It had some interesting parallels with movement building, raising awareness of modern societal issues, creating positive social change etc - and I think this was intentional. Wasn’t expected but very welcome and added to the experience of the book for me.
I loved reading this all the way through, but felt the ending was great but just left me feeling a little unsatisfied. This might be down to it being a podcast originally, and I would still recommend the book as it was absolutely a 4-star read for me.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

Maybe the toughest book to review so far. Was it perfect? No. Did the reveal and ending feel a bit preachy and lose some oomph? Yes. 

And yet I’m still giving this one a perfect score because Keisha changed me lol. The way she harnesses her fear and anxiety and makes them her superpowers literally inspired me to interact with those feelings in a new way .

If I can’t put a book down, and it changes how I interact with my own spirit? Then even with my nitpicks it still deserves that perf score  

I wanted to finish listening to the podcast first and then I didn't do that :(
adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-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
adventurous funny hopeful mysterious 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
adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-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: No