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Il cardellino by Donna Tartt
4.25
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Beautiful prose, loved how the author managed to really use expressions that conveyed the pessimistic view of life of Theodore. Loved the characters’ relationships, and how you related so much to Theo and the fact that for most of the book neither of you know what’s going on or why something is happening and feel the unfairness of it all. Very beautiful, lyrical at times in the accurate descriptions, but the ending I found way too philosophical and too much like the ending of an essay by a college student (sorry). 
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