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ruth12's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
rnmcfarlane's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-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
5.0
kali's review
4.0
4.5* Who do you become when your life has been atomised? Joan arrives in Vegas in the sixties. She smokes, she does many things for the first time because they’re what Joan would do. She lives as she hasn’t done for 18 cardboard years. A slim novella, at times told in fragments, short vignettes. But I lingered long in Meyer’s artful prose, the onomatopoeia and rhythms of her sentences.
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