3.72 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional mysterious 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 medium-paced
dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Both predictable and not, compelling enough to keep reading, some really interesting concepts and imagination. 
adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Fun sci-fi story with time travel, romance, and a chicken purse. Great read! 
adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This book passed the time just fine. Other reviewers said the things that I'm not gonna say well.  I never felt drawn to any of the characters in particular so when things actually started happening, I wasn't overly invested in what happened to any one character, which is unfortunate since there were important topics that were raised... but never really resolved?
It was when the romance started that I started becoming apathetic. 
I didn't want that storyline to become the main theme of the book and that's exactly what happened.  I guess it didn't really surprise me, but I wanted to not be right.

Appreciated the way the historical characters kept most of their historical mannerisms despite Ministry education/training. Definitely an interesting concept but was ready for it to end by the time it arrived.

Painfully boring. Really good concept, I wanted to like this book - it’s a shame it was executed better. Didn’t finish ..
adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced