clairegour's reviews
148 reviews

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

2.0

Love and death on repeat. Rich people with nothing to do. Just felt very repetitive and I've read books like it before.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

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adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Pretty good story, but slow beginning and some weird twists. Also, not the genre for me, too fantastical. 
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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5.0

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

4.0

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

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3.0

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

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

4.0

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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

4.75

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

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dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

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hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0