2.98 AVERAGE

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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challenging emotional reflective 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
challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
mysterious 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: No

This novel is a little too non-linear for my tastes. I also don't love being on the outside of the POV motivations and too many strange events happened off page that just pick up out of nowhere with no internal dialogue about why they happened. Like she steals a lab monkey from her job and she literally never says why. 

The older sister would have been a more interesting lead character but we literally never find out what happened to her bc the MC literally never wondered where her sister disappears to.

only has this high of a review bc nothing super bad happens 
challenging emotional reflective 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

So beautifully written. This novel is a masterclass in real life- sometimes we don’t say what we want or need to, questions that have haunted our minds for years will go unanswered. Sometimes there is no finite solution but it’s the way we keep moving, that this book gets right. 

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Shoulda read the reviews before I started this one... not great.
reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes