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Toutes les nuances de la nuit by Chris Whitaker

163 reviews

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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: Yes

This book has to go in my top 50 of all time.  It's a story based mainly around 3 people whos lives become irrevocably entwined after the boy, Patch, saves Missy from being kidnapped and is taken in her place.  And Saint who will not give up fighting to find and save her best friend.  There's also an amazing cast of characters around them who are clearly defined and are integral to the story.  

I could not put this book down, despite its length I burnt through it, the writing and stories are phenomenal.  This book literally chews up your heart, spits it out and puts it back together again.  It's a love story, a mystery, a thriller.  I will be urging everyone I know to read this beautiful book and will definitely be reading more books by the author.



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dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Beautiful prose, but I bit…overdone. I wasn’t sure what exactly I was supposed to care about, so some of the details were lost on me. Chapter endings that were clearly meant to be revelatory and profound often left me feeling a bit confused. Could have used a LOT of editing.

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I absolutely loved this book. It moved me to tears on three different occasions.
Having grown up in Missouri during a portion of the timeline of this book makes it even more meaningful, but more importantly the way it shows different types of love is absolutely beautiful. Not only is there love, there is compassion, regret, grief, pain, and passion. I could not have asked for a more meaningful and moving 600+ page read.

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dark emotional mysterious fast-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: Complicated

An excellent book! Very good character development and lots of twists and turns in the plot. The chapters are short and sometimes direction changes quickly. A little hard to follow on audiobook, I think this one is better with the physical copy in hand.

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Read this for book club. The themes are intense and it’s a lot of turns, but kept me engaged.

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 Great book that kept surprising me the whole way through. Some have said it was a page turner for them, and I wouldn’t say that. It dragged for me in many places. That’s why I took off a little points. 

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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