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The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

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mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No

3.0

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.
Very hard to follow. The punctuation was abysmal, maybe on purpose, but I think it ultimately did a disservice to the book.
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

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challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes

2.75

Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.75

Boulder by Eva Baltasar

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emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Rouge by Mona Awad

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challenging dark mysterious
  • Strong character development? Yes

3.0

Ugh... really liked the writing, although there was an obscene amount of adverbs in the beginning. Especially enjoyed the blanks and the slipups throughout the book. However, I haven't read genre fiction is such a long time, it took me 3/4 of the book to get into the story. 
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

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challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Enjoyed it very much, the first story was phenomenal. Writing was dense, flowing, ideas bled into one another.