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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-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
dark
mysterious
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
A classic and well written short story overall… but I just did not super enjoy reading it:
(1) The overly wordy writing style was not my jam (which is saying something given that I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Dracula by Bram Stoker).
(2) I also went into this book with only a superficial pop-culture level of knowledge of the story and always thought Jekyll was supposed to be inherently good / that Jekyll was trying to do something good with his serum that just went wrong due to some crazy accident (like Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk due to a failed Captain America serum)…but Jekyll is actually just a creepy rich asshole from the very beginning who just wanted to use the Hyde serum to “be free” to act out all his creepy asshole desires without damaging his rich man reputation… which is just very hard to read given current events in the US right now. And so I straight up was rooting against Jekyll the whole time, because I hated his guts even more as Jekyll than as Hyde. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(1) The overly wordy writing style was not my jam (which is saying something given that I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Dracula by Bram Stoker).
(2) I also went into this book with only a superficial pop-culture level of knowledge of the story and always thought Jekyll was supposed to be inherently good / that Jekyll was trying to do something good with his serum that just went wrong due to some crazy accident (like Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk due to a failed Captain America serum)…but Jekyll is actually just a creepy rich asshole from the very beginning who just wanted to use the Hyde serum to “be free” to act out all his creepy asshole desires without damaging his rich man reputation… which is just very hard to read given current events in the US right now. And so I straight up was rooting against Jekyll the whole time, because I hated his guts even more as Jekyll than as Hyde. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-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
Thought provoking, very interesting to think about but very slow to read even though it is only 50~ pages
mysterious
reflective
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:
Yes