4.06 AVERAGE

adventurous mysterious slow-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: Yes

I felt this was over-written and had too many ideas happening in it. I did, however, love Bad
adventurous 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: No
adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious

This was not a bad story. It just wasn't a story for me.
It was very slow and really hard for me to stay interested. I never did feel attached to any of the characters. The strongest feelings I had reading this were for the dog and most of that was just anxiety about what was going to happen to the dog.
I ended up putting it down and forgetting about it halfway through, then picked it back up weeks later and struggled to finally finish it.
2.5⭐ 
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A bit of a slow, meandering start but it really picks up about halfway through and grabs your interest!
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Yes

emilykarinpeterson's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 18%

Just couldn't get into it. Maybe it was just the wrong timing?