4.15 AVERAGE

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Easily one of the best books I've read this year. It does infodump a fair bit about apples, especially at the beginning, but I promise it is worth hanging around for. It is so good to see horror done that doesn't focus on sexual assault or other punching down, Cheap shock horror. The body horror was so well done, especially the teeth! (Iykyk). The relationship dynamics between characters was really well done. Even the characters who I could not stand I still wanted to learn more about. The story is so well woven together and I will absolutely be looking up his books on the writing craft. 

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dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Far too long. The apple history was honestly more interesting than the monster plot line.
dark informative tense medium-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
dark 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
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Overly descriptive… I don’t need a whole paragraph about faking a bite of an apple.
challenging dark emotional 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
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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