4.09 AVERAGE

dark emotional hopeful 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: No
adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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

Favorite quote: “Life shouldn't be about to end before someone begins living.”
adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

“Instead of waiting for the day when an operator calls to tell me I’m going to die, I already understand how important it is to live while I can.”
Gloria loves that insight. 
Life shouldn’t be about to end before someone begins living. 

Much better than the first book! But I do love the callback to the first book too. 

Why am I still devastated when a character dies even though I’m told in the beginning that they’re gonna die??? Also, I’m upset that
we still don’t know how Death-Cast does it. 😤 At least, I didn’t catch it.

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3.5

I really love the concept of the book but it gets repetitive rather quickly kind of like the first book. The characters have an idea and then explore all the reasons they might die from it and then come up with an alternative. The use of the same words over and over also got on my nerves.

I also really want to accept and embrace Death-Cast but because the book is more realistic I have a hard time doing so. I know it’s supposed to be secretive but I just have a hard time buying into knowing when people will die but not how with 0 explanation.

4.5 rounded up to 5
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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