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325 reviews for:

The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

4.58 AVERAGE

emotional reflective sad medium-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

This was so sweet and heartfelt. I felt with the various characters which is difficult to do in so few pages.
The son made me soo mad and the mom was so sweet, tears ran down my face at the letter!

I also sidenote and not very relevant, liked the little bits of hanyu pinyin because I haven't read that in a while. It felt more authentic that it wasn't all just in english. The animals were adorable too. 
It's beautiful how big a role translation plays in the story. How important is for us to understand each other and connect, otherwise relationship wither and potential relationships never start. 
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
emotional reflective

(4.5)
Please read this if you love Aftersun or EEAAO.
And thank you petrik leo for the reccomendation.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Wellp. Now I'm crying. 😭

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Unexpectedly devastating.
emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes