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

Very conflicted.

Warning: An 1600th century novel about slavery. It's not pretty.

Written by a woman tho which is rather cool.

Should be interesting to discuss in class.
adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Not bad for one of the earliest novels, though it has a lot of problems related to the time it was written.
challenging sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

writing is beautiful but god is it racist

3rd time reading it for school....
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Read this in a couple of hours, wasn't a fan of the writing style but the story itself was very interesting. Read as part of my university course.
challenging dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Between having been written by one of the first female authors and having one of the first cross-racial writer/protagonist duos, I can see why this story has been canonized. It's an important piece, to be sure.

However, as a story, it's abysmal. If I'm going subject myself to seventeenth century English, I need a better reason than this.