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We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

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mattyb's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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42_books_42's review

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adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

It is an extremely nice anti patriarchy book with really nice revolutionary plots and a really nice queer representation within the book. I just loved it. Even if the first half seemed pretty slow you must continue because especially the second half is so extremely nice written, interesting and emotionally confusing. Furthermore I recommend buying the second part before you finished the first one because the delivery of that one takes quite long (at least in my country) and you really want to continue it as soon as possible. (I wasn’t able to do so until now so I can’t say anything to the second book)

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xxrrir's review

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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alliejm00's review

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hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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saltybiscuit's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The story could have been developed way more, instead we see a lot of

Dani's inner struggle where she talks about how she must not show emotion, not make decisions based on feelings and then proceeds to do exactly that. It got a little repetitive and frustrating. The romance was adorable as it was developing, but also sort of came out of nowhere and felt problematic. It would have made more sense if the characters had a crush on each other or any interest/feelings prior to being "purchased" by the same rich overlord. Instead, it sounds like Carmen was a total bully and just got away with it.

I wanted to rate this lower because of the flaws, but overall I enjoyed reading this, didn't want to put it down and went to get the sequel literally the day after reading this, so it warrants a solid 4.

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bookswtheo's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring slow-paced

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

3.75

this book went so slow at first and then suddenly real fast. the voice made it a bit hard for me to stay engaged but MAN that ending!!

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starklinqs's review

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

3.75

I almost didn’t finish the book at first but after a few chapters I got really into it. I love the wlw romance a lot, but thought the plot ran a bit fast. I would have loved for this book to be longer, it ended quite abruptly and I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. It almost felt like this would have been a perfect midpoint through the book, for Carmen’s POV to then start.

I’m probably going to read the next book, though. It was interesting and I’m definitely invested in what happens next.

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