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Direbound

Sable Sorensen

4.31 AVERAGE

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

4.5 ⭐️
adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Not for me

I kept seeing people raving about this on Booktok. I finally gave in and read it, and I hate to say I was so disappointed. It was a very slow and boring read for me. I skimmed so much. I kept going thinking it would get better any minute because of the things I had seen about it but that never happened. It did not start getting interesting to me until the last 20%. The relationship between her and Lee had less chemistry than 2 friends. It all just fell very flat. Maybe it was the writing style? I didn’t enjoy the descriptions or the inner monologues. The trials weren’t well explained and described and so it just wasn’t exciting. I think the idea and premise is interesting but the execution didn’t land for me.
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No