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Holly: a novel

Stephen King

4.04 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

kind of knew what the end would look like from about 100ish pages in? loved the writing style, glad i read it, but not the kind of mysterious thriller that i usually like
adventurous dark 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: No
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I feel like it’s very easy to write
cannibals
in a corny way.
When it was told from the Harris’s point of view they didn’t seem scary. Which makes sense because they didn’t think they were scary, but it sometimes felt corny to always refer to Bonnie as the elf. Like elf balls and elf parfait. Idk
dark 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
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

I'm so glad Stephen King loves Holly, and maybe as much as I love Holly
dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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DID NOT FINISH: 33%

Annoyed at protagonist. She inherited 3 million & won't stop whining about it. Cry me a river that you're suddenly rich.