4.26 AVERAGE

dark emotional 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: No
adventurous challenging emotional 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: Complicated

This is the most beautiful book I have ever read and I cherished every moment of reading it! If you are ready for a challenging and life changing book, you should read this immediately. 💎🌊

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.... The author builds you up with great characters and makes the reader think they are being set up for that critical moment in life that explains it all. Yet, that's life. We are waiting for the build up to end. The pinnacle moment to happen where we can sit on a beach somewhere and say to ourselves, yup, this was worth it. Yet life goes on. There is no real great ending. Life goes on until it doesn't anymore. ......

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adventurous reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional inspiring sad tense medium-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

Oh how I love this book, such beautiful writing, full of intrigue, and characters to love. Was worth the reread after watching the show to remember how good the book is
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DID NOT FINISH

I didn’t like the way it was written.
challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

No thanks. Doerr’s prose is nice, but everything is so contrived. this book is well written and I can see why people like it but it left such a sour taste in my mouth. Disliked how Marie loure was written throughout the novel. She felt more like a description of a series of events than a character... talk about infantilizing a disabled character. Yutta’s child in the final chapter is given more agency. This whole book felt like the fantasy of a white male history major if you know what I mean. Other people said it better than me, but pass.
challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad 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: Complicated