melc's reviews
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dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Did not finish book. Stopped at 38%.

Issue based fiction with something very important to say but in my opinion at the expense of plot. Too slow, too many characters I couldn't engage with and it felt repetitive.

I would have preferred a book examining the themes of misogyny and colonialism in the Caribbean with more subtly and nuance allowing the story to speak more for itself.

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.

Too didactic, over constructed and the plot was weak in comparison to the soap box the author was on.

And talking about soap box - I felt that the disability that the author was highlighted was underrepresented in terms of the character and his feelings. It maybe changes further into the novel but I felt I would have liked to hear more about Eugene and less about precocious Mia!

Plus the plot was really forced together - the thriller aspect of the storyline wedged between these long diatribes of Mia's felt jarring to me.

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of an Outspoken Woman and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

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informative inspiring sad slow-paced

3.0

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced