3.81 AVERAGE

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

A novel of humanity - flawed, imperfect, messy, painful, evolving, tender, resilient humanity. I finished the book with a shuddering breath and promptly burst into great, heaving sobs. "You are still becoming" and "Wherever you are going is waiting for you" have been permanently etched into a tender little portion of my heart.

4.5 the first 10 pages scared me because it reminded me of CoHo from when I read It Ends with Us. I loved reading about everyone’s lives and relationships; it felt like a bunch of gossip but in a good way and I’m happy the writing improved!

A lot of the low star reviews I’m seeing say that they felt it was boring and that the main characters were unsympathetic. I guess I can understand that pov but living in messy characters heads is interesting to me (like My Year of Rest and Relaxation). As long as the writing/structure is good and by good I mean not like CoHo (not very high of a bar but you get the gist).
emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

3,5⭐️
dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was tough but really beautiful.