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157 reviews

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

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dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Dr. Siri und das sitzende Skelett by Colin Cotterill

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funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

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medium-paced

4.0

Pompeji oder Die fünf Reden des Jowna: Roman by Eugen Ruge

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reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Ruge is a great writer but this book really starts to drag around the halfway mark and also the story feels like at least three extended metaphors at the same time, to the detriment to all of them imo
Die schwarze Mühle by Günter Lange, Jurij Brězan

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dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 48%.
Audiobook was not very well read, and I’m not finding anything in this that the movie didn’t do as good or better.
Somewhat preachy and EXTREMELY repetitive. 
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

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dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

Look, I like a slow burn, and vampire stories SHOULD be a slow burn, but Jesus Christ.
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book by Carly Adler, Dan Harris, Jeff Warren

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2.0

Heimat: Erfahrungen mit einem deutschen Thema by Christian Graf von Krockow

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emotional reflective

4.0

So schöne Prosa findet man selten in Sachbüchern. Schade nur, dass der Autor so selten auf seinen doch sehr privilegierten Sonderstatus als Kind adliger Grundbesitzer zu sprechen kommt.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Gorgeously written, but the plot was convoluted and not very engaging. At no point did I feel like I was given a real reason why I should want to read about any of these characters (the men - the women barely deserve to be called characters tbh) and at the fifty percent mark, the case was suddenly sort of over? And from there on, we follow another crime that Marlowe is seemingly uninterested in and that LITERALLY NO ONE has asked him to investigate…