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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
2.5
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Inferno and Purgatorio are way more interesting than Paradisio. While they aren't that interesting to begin with, since the majority is to describe how sins affect sinners, as well as putting his own personal enemies in hell, it has a lot more character and interesting descriptions of what hell and purgatory could look like to believers.

Paradisio is just a fanfic of how amazing god is, and for a non-believer, this is pretty boring as everything is too perfect to describe, and thus we have nothing to really take away from it.

Also, his relationship with Beatrice is on the creepy side, not a big fan of it, and he simps as much on her than he does on Virgil.

If you want to read something chanting the glories of God, you'll probably enjoy it way more than I did. If I ever read it again, I'll limit myself to Inferno.