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katieana_210's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
mcgrathprj's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
jacqueline55a81's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
kelswid's review against another edition
4.25
I felt it stalled out a bit near the end but goddamn R.O. Kwon can WRITE!!!
katharim's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
thatblushingbookgirl's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
laurenscholle's review against another edition
2.0
the writing was beautiful at times and at other times it was so choppy I wanted to stop reading. it had the potential to be such an interesting book but the plot was not fleshed out :(
amywoolsey_93's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
The Incendiaries is a love story with the tight structure of a thriller, its clipped sentences rushing forward like the spark that lights a stick of dynamite. It moves almost too fast. With Phoebe's perspective limited to one or two-page fragments, the inner workings and philosophy of Jejah remain vague (what makes this different from any other fundamentalist Christian cult?), and her arc from skeptic to disciple feels contrived. R.O. Kwon writes vividly about the process of losing faith, less so about the process of gaining faith.
nothingforpomegranted's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
The writing was beautiful, and I understand how a reader could fall in love with this book, but I found it too unsettling and too uncomfortable to enjoy or even really appreciate. Will’s obsessive love for Phoebe was uncomfortable and upsetting, and all the more so because I didn’t quite follow the development of such passion in the scenes that described their relationship. Phoebe never seemed that appealing or that special, and Will’s willingness to follow her, quite literally, to the ends of the earth seemed like an attempt to satisfy some need that I also didn’t really understand, and which wasn’t fully explained by his religious crisis and return.