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The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert

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teadrinkingrev's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

4.0

emilyh84's review

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dark reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

lrwebber's review against another edition

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reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Intriguing premise, not really executed. Barely any book club, very little relationship development that wasn’t repetition of the same thoughts and feelings first introduced. Writing style was easy to read.

lexipassno's review

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reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

fictionalfabrication's review

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I have to say that I only enjoyed about 20% of this book. The other 80% I found to be pretty unengaging and has put me in a massive slump. As someone who usually physically reads a book within a week, this took me over a month with no other physical books in between.
The three main characters felt flat the majority of the time and I wasn't very invested in their stories individually or as a unit. The structure of the story was well organized although I didn't expect the story to follow such a long timeline. This takes place over 3+ years and the only way I knew of that passage of time was because we jumped from the Titanic sinking and then to WW1.
Overall, I should have DNF-ed this book. It was not the historical romance for me, the love triangle between Yorick, Hans, and Zinnia felt awkward and I struggled through the story immensely.
I can see this story being for someone who is interested in queerness in the 1900's, historical romance, love triangles, and tragedy. It just happened to not be the story for me.