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Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink
2.5
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Unique horror setting, great LGBTQ representation, a predominantly female cast of characters, and a black lesbian as the protagonist...
I really wish I enjoyed this book more than I did, because A) It checks a lot of boxes for things that are lacking in most media to this day, and B) I enjoy and appreciate Joseph Fink's podcast work (including the podcast version of Alice Isn't Dead). 
But alas, I wasn't at any point immersed in the story, I found it a bit difficult to focus at times with the sudden changes of pace in right in the middle of a paragraph, and I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't listened to the podcast before it would have taken me much longer to grasp what was going on at times. 
Hopefully I'll enjoy his next works as an author more.