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How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

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mswarning's review against another edition

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emotional 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

4.25

I don't know how to feel about this book. I speculated all sorts of things

such as time travel causing the virus or jellyfish/octopus aliens. I guess I was correct about the alien part.. but the ending was not as satisfying as I thought it would be.

My favorite chapters were the one about the euthanasia park and the pig.

ambur_justeen's review

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5.0

A masterpiece - tackled the complexity of grief overtop an epic tale.

nelleplett's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.75

sam_plott's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

apenum's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

I want to give it 3 stars for how mediocre this was but it actually annoyed me way too much, so one star for you. This type of speculative fiction is one of my least favourite genres and I hereby vow to avoid it in the future.

alexiasp's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective

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

4.0

It takes a long time to get into each story, and not every vignette impacted me, but those that did made me bawl my eyes. The City of Laugheter especially made me cry on the street. That one and a few others are five⭐.