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Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

 “Sometimes that’s all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time.” 
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

 “Max is a miracle. I don’t know why she one day decided to question the boundaries of the game in which she found herself. I didn’t program her to do that. I couldn’t have done it if I had tried. She’s a beautiful accident.” 
Ark by Veronica Roth

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emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

"It's the story of this planet in reverse. We were born out of coalescing matter, chaos, here, all lava and earthquakes and thunder. It will be like...seeing the birth of the world. Can you imagine anything more beautiful, more worth witnessing, than that?"