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Explicit sexual assault
emotional funny inspiring 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: Complicated
emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Enjoyed it just as much on the reread. 
emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

heel leuk en ook heel frustrerend door hoe kut mensen waren(/zijn). elizabeth is een queen
challenging emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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seisymedia mvp
emotional funny inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is like a series of snapshots in a brilliant 1950s womans life on her path to find her place whilst not compromising her values and goals and the struggles in doing so. I had a lot of fun reading this book. My heart also squeezed at multiple times. To think that now the situation is not necessarily much better for woman all around the globe and to think that people would want to go back to those times where women did not even have a choice to be taken seriously is outrageous. 

My only small gripe with this book is that we in the end didn’t get to see her focus on her life work. I would have loved to see her flourish, to see her healed because the majority if not all of the book she is sad for various reasons. And i understand how and why the end was written that way but because of her main grievances being that she doesnt get taken seriously as a chemist, it would have been nice to show her doing the work that she love at least a bit.