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The Incendiaries

R.O. Kwon

3.23 AVERAGE


hard to follow as an audiobook at first but very interesting. not too much character development so the backstories felt a little lacking but the overall plot was enticing 
adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark reflective tense fast-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

I felt it stalled out a bit near the end but goddamn R.O. Kwon can WRITE!!!
challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

the writing was beautiful at times and at other times it was so choppy I wanted to stop reading. it had the potential to be such an interesting book but the plot was not fleshed out :(
dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Incendiaries is a love story with the tight structure of a thriller, its clipped sentences rushing forward like the spark that lights a stick of dynamite. It moves almost too fast. With Phoebe's perspective limited to one or two-page fragments, the inner workings and philosophy of Jejah remain vague (what makes this different from any other fundamentalist Christian cult?), and her arc from skeptic to disciple feels contrived. R.O. Kwon writes vividly about the process of losing faith, less so about the process of gaining faith.