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A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Loved the characters and the premise, but I needed more tension and some actual subplots for this to have fully worked. There is literally just the main plot and there isn't really all that much mystery. The synopsis tells us that Yskander was murdered, Mahit mostly figures out what happened in the early chapters, and the rest of the book is a lot of exposition that doesn't really move the plot. Overall - good, not great.