The Queen's Gambit

The Good: I love how intense it gets when there's a game going on, and I kind of wish the author actually put the complete chess notations for each game so I can also witness how it played while reading. So generally, I love all the parts with a game going on.

The Bad: Flat characters. Absolutely no character development. Characters appear and disappear for zero to minimal reasons. The deaths of characters have no impact.

The Ugly: The blatant racism and child sexual abuse. I could probably let the racism pass as it was set in the '60s and it's probably just trying to be realistic (and maybe just trying to establish the closeness between Jolene and Beth), but I could not let the sexual abuse pass. Chapter 1 was disgusting.

Overall, giving this a 3. It wasn't the best but it wasn't the worst either.