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

One of my all-time favorites. Read it for the first time in eighth grade English and immediately turned my psyche inside-out, creating my own division of self, and sharing a part of my mind with Robert Louis Stevenson across the centuries. Reread it this year and found I loved it just as much.
dark fast-paced

Classic masterpiece on the condition of the human heart.
dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Personal takeaways:We all have good and bad thoughts, but ultimately we are a culmination of our actions. These actions can also change the way we think. The more we lean towards negativity this feeds into itself. Try to be more positive and do positive things and this will lead to positive thoughts. This tends to be the case with music as well. If you listed to sad music it makes you sad.

In the book the two sides of the coin are represented in numerous ways. The first is the ugly small appearance of Hyde representing evil and the tall handsome appearance of Dr Jekyll representing good. In his public life he is shown to be a good caring person, but in his private life in his laboratory and behind he is something different. Maybe this is akin to us never knowing what someone is truly like and we only know our own true intentions.

A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved--the cloth laying for me in the dining-room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.

Πολύ καλή νουβέλα που θα γινόταν ακόμα καλύτερη εάν δεν γνώριζα από την αρχή το τέλος...
dark tense medium-paced