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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
tense
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:
Yes
Despite this coming highly recommended from a friend, I'm just not enjoying the narrative. I don't feel any connection to the main character and the writing just isn't my cup of tea. Some 100 pages into a book I want to at least have some understanding of the plot and I am still baffled (and bored) so I'm going to set this aside.
3.5 rounded up for the compelling writing and fresh perspective on . A major loss of points for the endless repetitiveness and fumbled ending.
Spoiler
magical education — this is a grown-up take on the effort and weirdness one might have to endure to become truly wizardly
medium-paced
I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t normally read things this obscure, or if maybe I just don’t get it- but this book was so complicated, so hard to get through, and made no sense to me.
I wanted to like it based on part one- but after those first hundred or so pages everything went downhill as for the story and for my enjoyment.
I think maybe it just went over my head and I’m missing the point of it unfortunately.
It’s an interesting concept? - however to me it more or so felt like a really messed up, weird ongoing fever dream.
The only reason I finished this is because I was really hoping near the end it would all make sense (like aha! I get it!) but it never did- along with the fact that I hate to DNF a book I paid good money for 😪
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As someone who slips very far into a main character's headspace and thought processes when engrossed in a book - Vita Nostra was a strange and unique read. I'd praise it as a cognitohazard if at least half the work wasn't from the combination of its surrealist horror and the new meds I was taking' side effects combining - but I can safely say, that of many books I've read where a 'supernatural school setting' is a main stage, this is the only book that deserves the tag of 'dark academia'.