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Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

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itsmeautievee's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I really enjoy the authors work on The Magnus Archives, which in my opinion is a faster pace than this book.

The story is good and maybe it was the audio performances that made it difficult for me to listen to.

I enjoyed the story as an Allegory. I don't know that I'd read it again but I did enjoy it and I would recommend it to others.

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centrifugepolitics's review

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dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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buffaloraven's review

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dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Loved it

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nebulous_cat's review

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dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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cranberry10088's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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antimony's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

in 2021 I had a bunch of online mutuals who like the magnus archives and I thought it sounded interesting but I can't listen to podcasts so when I found out the creator wrote a book I thought oh this will be fun!! and asked my library to buy it. they said "we will, when it comes out in the us!" (possibly 2022?) for months in 2022 it said it was On Order in the catalog and on its way to my library until it disappeared from the catalog entirely. but finally in 2024 I am in ireland for the semester and the library here has it so I got to read it.
i was not expecting this to be so disconnected for the first 50% or so. I enjoyed when the stories started tying together quite a bit but up until then it was VERYYY easy to forget the characters...when we got to the final chapter I couldn't remember who a couple of the people were. my favorite of the first 12 stories were alvita, caroline, and laura...maybe leon also. i really enjoyed the stories as they stood on their own though. but the last chapter with the constant pov switching was a little hard to follow.. though I did like that they

all got together to kill him in the end

it didn't really seem to...make sense? it just sort of happened in a sort of frenzy

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