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3.81 AVERAGE

adventurous reflective fast-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

Great October read ✨

Might be more of a 3.5.

It wasn't that it was bad it was just very much not what I had expected or wanted. I just wasn't that entertained because of this which just made it hard to stay motivated to read this book even though it's pretty short.

It kind of advertised itself as a supernatural stranger things type of ghost story, but it was not this at all. There was not any point in this book where I believed there was any kind of magical entity.

Great (sad) ending though. Poor Uncle C. It's just that a large portion of the actual interesting plot of the book (Uncle C's plot) was pretty much just foreshadowing. Always like "if I had known back then" but then the actual finding out bit is only like the last 15 pages. It was pretty great how everything tied together though and I did really enjoy those 15 pages, but I wish there was some more you know?

A little slow for me due to my own expectations, but if you go into this expecting a somewhat sad coming of age story then I think you might have a better experience and end up loving this one.
emotional mysterious 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: Yes
lighthearted reflective fast-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
adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-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: Complicated
reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Klassiker (why am I crying?!)

Truthfully - I didn't ever know where this book was going, but it summed up quite well. I liked the voice of the main character & the writing overall. I feel like this book could have been longer & a little more developed to be a 5 star read. Did have my jaw dropping there at the end but but still kinda underwhelmed.

Solid 3.5 rounding situation. Worth a read.