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Essex Dogs: A Novel

Dan Jones

3.8 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
adventurous dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
challenging dark slow-paced

Took me a while to finish this one, and I’m sad to say I’m relived I’m finally finished. It was just … dry & gory & I didn’t care about anybody. The men may have done a lot of trudging through mud, but damn I don’t think that was as difficult as trudging through this book was. Thankfully, no toes nor skin lost. 
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

I just couldn't get into this. I really enjoy Jones's nonfiction, but it seems his ability to write fiction is not on par with that. None of the characters were enjoyable or memorable, so I found it very hard to care about what was going on. I gave it a chance, but I don't want to spend my time with characters I have little feelings for. 
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

sprior's review

4.0
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
challenging dark sad tense 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: No
adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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