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La vita impossibile

Matt Haig

3.52 AVERAGE

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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 have read two other books written by Matt, and those seemed to get to the plot quicker than this book. To me, the storyline went on for too long. The book would’ve also been great without a villain. I liked it, but didn’t love it.
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced
adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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 inspiring reflective slow-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 was hard to get into but taught me such beautiful lessons and perspectives and I teared up at parts and simultaneously felt so insignificant and so significant in this giant beautiful world and universe we exist in.
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

jesjurgens's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

Felt too heavy at this time.  Content warning 

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adventurous emotional hopeful
emotional mysterious relaxing tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This was different.  I liked the beginning and the end, but almost quit halfway through.  It’s magical realism, but it was so far away from believable that it was hard to get through.  On the other hand, some of the writing was great, and I put sticky notes by several lines and quotes I want to remember.  Ibiza, an older lonely woman, an even older hippy fisherman, a strange presence, and a portal to a different planet that you can only get to under water.  3 stars - straight down the middle. 
inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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: Complicated
hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes