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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.0

I liked the mix of a black comedy plot line with a heartwarming found family plot line.

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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

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adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.0

Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson

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adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I like Thompson’s writing style, but I didn’t like this book as much as the Rosewater books. The solution to the murder mystery came out of nowhere; it wasn’t foreshadowed at all. Since the book switched back and forth from different characters’ POVs, I thought at least one character was the murderer, but no it’s a character we’ve never met before in the book. I didn’t like that as a structure.

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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

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adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

The world building was great! I really like this fantasy world. The conflicts between the characters, and the internal ones of the main characters were memorable.

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

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emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I liked how the two storylines of children grieving loss paralleled each other, sometimes repeating the same sentence like poems repeat words. And I learned about a famous shipwreck that wasn’t the Titanic!

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

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emotional informative slow-paced

2.5

This was very dense and hard for me to finish. It was more like a history textbook than a memoir. I ended up skimming to the end before it was due back at the library.

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

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emotional mysterious fast-paced