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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed this book!
I do think it was trying to tell too many stories—I think there were ideas for four books’ worth of content, but not related stories. I think the researcher/rich guy relationship would have made a cute rom com. I think the family drama from the Arches could have been a great domestic thriller or a suspenseful emotional drama. I think Dex deserves his own novel. I loved Tuesday’s story, and I think it fit very well with the concept of this novel.
I would have liked a little more focus on the neighbor and the hunt. Each of the side stories was rich and fantastic, but it detracted from Tuesday’s story.
I do think it was trying to tell too many stories—I think there were ideas for four books’ worth of content, but not related stories. I think the researcher/rich guy relationship would have made a cute rom com. I think the family drama from the Arches could have been a great domestic thriller or a suspenseful emotional drama. I think Dex deserves his own novel. I loved Tuesday’s story, and I think it fit very well with the concept of this novel.
I would have liked a little more focus on the neighbor and the hunt. Each of the side stories was rich and fantastic, but it detracted from Tuesday’s story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Murder
Minor: Classism
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
“All relationships are real,” said Tuesday. “Friendship can be as deep as the ocean. It’s all a kind of love, and love isn’t any one kind of thing.” They smiled at each other.
“She’d lived for years now, and happily, freed by the realization that she didn’t need to believe the books, the television shows, the commercials that told her, if she was single, there was something wrong with her. That if she liked it, she was lying to herself. If she chose it actively and indefinitely, if she didn’t think of her single life as a holding pattern, a prelude to the next (coupled) life, then she was—what even was she? A nun, repressed and suspect? A witch, dangerously free? A spinster with a cat, pathetic and irrelevant? In other words, confused. But she wasn’t confused. She knew who she was, and who she was was herself. She took care of herself. She came home to herself. She was enough, herself. So to meet a person who was truly interesting, who presented both a mystery and a challenge, whose life was extraordinary to her yet familiar—she had not seen that coming.”
“She’d lived for years now, and happily, freed by the realization that she didn’t need to believe the books, the television shows, the commercials that told her, if she was single, there was something wrong with her. That if she liked it, she was lying to herself. If she chose it actively and indefinitely, if she didn’t think of her single life as a holding pattern, a prelude to the next (coupled) life, then she was—what even was she? A nun, repressed and suspect? A witch, dangerously free? A spinster with a cat, pathetic and irrelevant? In other words, confused. But she wasn’t confused. She knew who she was, and who she was was herself. She took care of herself. She came home to herself. She was enough, herself. So to meet a person who was truly interesting, who presented both a mystery and a challenge, whose life was extraordinary to her yet familiar—she had not seen that coming.”
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No