I quite liked the absurdist feel of it and it contains a dry humor that I especially enjoyed. The way the narrator, our hero, is sketched made me lowkey giggle. However, after a while I got slightly tired of this and it lost my interest.

De hemel is altijd paars by Sholeh Rezazadeh

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

Beautifully written, very poetic. However, the romantic storyline felt incredibly unrealistic to me. It is so obvious that the two don't fit together that I got very annoyed with it over time, I wanted the focus to be on other things.

De Troostbibliotheek by Sara Nisha Adams

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.

Not my thing. Characters bored and annoyed me.

Wat ik niet wil vergeten by Paolo Giordano

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

Nachtangst by Ronald Giphart

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

Starts out as fun, but gets repetitive very soon. I also did not appreciate the shocking plot twist at the end, which I felt did not work well in the rest of the narrative and was unnecessary.

Violeta by Isabel Allende

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For a book called after the main character I thought it took way too long before I actually felt I got to know her. There are some huge historic information dumps and they are not woven nicely into the narrative. I did get taken in by Allende's writing style though.

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