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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Wetlands: A Novel by Charlotte Roche, Tim Mohr

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challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

I know the purpose of the book is to challenge us into thinking about how we treat feminine hygiene in comparison to men's but a lot of it is just plain gross and kinda unhealthy. Listen, regardless of sex, if you don't wash yourself after you pee then you're nasty. If you don't wash yourself down there while taking a shower then you're also nasty. There is a reason why we stay clean.

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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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dark slow-paced

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

2.0

No real plot and the characters were really unlikable. I stopped halfway through in the lighthouse scene and was like "I wanna go back to the tower and see the crawler I don't care about the psychologist I want the crawler" and then looked up the synopsis on Wikipedia, got disappointed in the ending of all three books in the series and decided to give up. I like how it was written though, it felt fresh and experimental just purely in a grammatical sense.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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mysterious reflective tense slow-paced