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35 reviews

Hellbound Heart, The by Clive Barker

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Ridiculous! Forever in love with Clive Barker’s fascination with becoming one with unspeakable horror.

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Dracula by Bram Stoker

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Weird! The whole beginning is incredible but damn that journal/letter formula wore on me real fast. Frankenstein’s better read Frankenstein.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

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adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I like how after the first 200 pages it turned into the longest ADHD hyperfixation rant about whales ever written, with occasional plot thrown in to spice things up.

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

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adventurous challenging dark funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Pure insanity. There’s some wild stuff here the movie cut out for probably good reason but dang this is such a great read!!

McGrotty and Ludmilla by Alasdair Gray

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dark funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

Started reading this because I could get it sooner than Poor Things and I wanted to get a feel for Alasdair Gray’s writing style and wow! It’s biting as hell! Best satire of 80’s capitalism I’ve ever read. Can’t wait to read his translation of The Divine Comedy!

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Not as much of the fantasy story I expected it to be from the premise as much as it is statistics of generational, systematic misogyny in South Korea loosely framed over the story of a young woman’s life. But very good! Utterly hopeless.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I’m so mad at that movie for what it made me think this book would be like.

Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

A chore done entirely out of obligation. Felt wildly aimless in a bad way!

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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dark emotional lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-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

4.25

The bug was trans