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Taltos by Anne Rice

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Nothing by Janne Teller

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Ningún sentido nada.

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Las horas distantes by Kate Morton, Luisa Borovsky
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.

Lo voy a terminar cuando esté de ánimos. Me copó más la prosa de Lucinda Riley siento que la Morton se esfuerza mucho y suena como a Daphne du marier

Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Las puertas invisibles by Alice Hoffman, Icíar Bédmar Payán

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

3.5 The ending got my a bit baffled bu it was a cute story especially with that charm that Alice Hoffman has for magic realism. 

I love the scarlet letter and it's one of my favorite books because I didn't expect to love it so much as I did. The character of Pearl it's my favorite so of course I'm going to read a kind of fanfiction about Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5 at least the ending was satisfying. 

This is a mammoth of a book with more than 1000 pages and it goes EVERYWHERE with the investigation but at least the clues were there all along. 

It has a lot of many side plots that I would edit out because I know she wants authenticity but c'mon it dilute the main focus of the Margot Bamborough case. 

She surely takes her time to get trough the main mystery and for me that was a drag... Sometimes I couldn't care less about it but yeah the end is good.

It took me months to finish this book. And to me that it's the biggest crime.

Lasher by Anne Rice

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

There's a lot going on with this book. Like Louis said about Lestat in the show: He is a lot. Because Anne rice it's a lot. 

I had read taltos when I had like seventeen or eighteen and didn't know it was a trilogy about The Mayfairs witches but now with the show going on I decided to revisit the books .

This it's a mammoth of a book it took me nearly sic months because basically I hated the characters so much: lasher, Michael and Mona having an affair, Rowan leaving with lasher to be utterly ravaged and nearly destroy. But near the half it started to grow on me that Anne rice it's a master crafting the darkness and the whole unlikeable moral. 

There is no gray 🩶 lovely character like Lestat Well maybe Julien Mayfair so this was hard to finish but when I get to the point I'm on half of it... I literally devoured the whole thing. 

Because the thing is that Anne Rice remind me of my youth. Its like I know I will not recommend this lightly I'm mean the whole Mona having thirteen and be a nimphomaniac I did not like it. It deals with a lot of dark issues but when I was young I adore this dark themes. Anne Rice will never leave you indifferent to her work. Either you love her or hate her. I love her. 

Now I'm just going to try to read taltos this part of the year I had left .