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Châtiment

Percival Everett

4.19 AVERAGE


A dark thriller with a weird humor throughout
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No

Such an important topic but what a dissappinting book.

Relatively interesting beginning but quickly lost momentum and became repetitive and tedious. Introduced characters with ridiculous names and backgrounds who were simply plot devices and were gone in a flash. No real development of the main characters, who felt wooden and empty throughout. Perhaps this was intentional? Im not sure, but it was definitely not to my taste. The whole second half felt lazy and repetitive. The ending is just plain odd. 
adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious fast-paced
challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced
challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Mr. Everett’s books are “must reads”. This one was the best yet.
challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced
dark reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I listened to this book, so that may have skewed my rating a bit, I believe, because the reader was not very good at differentiating between characters. However, overall, it appears, as if the summary is the entirety of the book. I kept waiting for some answers to how exactly things were happening, somewhat happened, but not completely. I especially was looking more from Mana Z. The concept of the book was interesting, and rather unique for what the author was trying to convey. I just feel like he could have done a better job with flashing out for the end.