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I agree with this especially for books that I really love reading (as opposed to books that I’m “glad to have read”) — it’s always about the vibes, whether those are sweet and cozy or frightening. And for any book to be readable multiple times, it HAS to have the right vibes! I think “vibes” are part of why those really popular kid wizard books by she-who-must-not-be-named worked so well. They really do wrap the reader in a cloak of cozy. But obviously that wouldn’t be enough without the characters and the plot pacing and the mystery, etc.

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