readitoryeetit's Reviews (186)

Isola

Allegra Goodman

3.0

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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While still an interesting read, I feel the description and marketing towards this book is misleading. I was expecting more of an adventure-forward story, and was met with a book primarily about women's life in the 1500s. And religion. While there's nothing wrong with that, I just feel misled from the synopsis. 

Overall, it was an interesting story, but took a long time to get to what was supposed to be the central plot, and I feel ended abruptly. Maybe an epilogue telling how Marguerite faired in her teaching while her guardian was murdered would have been better? 
I also feel some of the descriptions of how she survived on the island were a little romanticized. Uh, y'all slept under the stars every night in the summer in Canada without a single mention of how many mosquito bites suffered??  Impossible. 
 
Glad I read it, won't be recommending it as an "adventure" novel though. 

Black Woods, Blue Sky

Eowyn Ivey

4.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Grandest Game

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

2.5

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Our Hideous Progeny

C.E. McGill

3.75

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Crossing Places

Elly Griffiths

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Ashley Winstead

3.5

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

3.5

emotional reflective tense 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: Yes

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

5.0

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced