A review by annalisaely
This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Not my personal cup of tea. I would place it outside of genre fiction entirely, actually, rather than being a mystery with romance elements, and call it the illusive "literary fiction" where the plot is pointless but the the characters are also more irritating and depressing than interesting and lovable (I don't mind a plotless book if I love the characters). It reminds me a lot of the books I was assigned to read in school, and I actually think it would be a good replacement for people who actually like those books, because I know they exist, because it is by an Indigenous person instead of a white one and has gay rep.
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