jimothymax's Reviews (128)

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman

5.0

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

James

Percival Everett

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The Will of the Many

James Islington

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Running Close to the Wind

Alexandra Rowland

5.0

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

These Violent Delights

Micah Nemerever

5.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

Silk & Steel

Ariana Nash

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

Wtf even is this? Not for me.

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

3.5

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The science aspect is solid, the story is interesting, and the anti-capitalism message comes through beautifully. But the character writing is extremely weak. I think I would have enjoyed this more if there had been a few likeable characters but there really aren't. I was also confused by the behavior of some of the dinosaurs because they really didn't act like animals. All in all a reasonably good book, but for me, this is a rare case where I think the movie was better.