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A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney

medium-paced

3.0

Not bad and would be willing to read more from the author. I like a good haunted house story and love a queer romance. Also love stories of mixed race main characters. But something felt a little lacking, and I'm unsure what it is. Maybe it felt a little anti-climactic or like it didn't go whole hog on the themes and action in the story? I dunno just something about the story left me wanting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

slow-paced

2.0

READ CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGS. 
I forced myself to finish this, but I don't think I should've. I also had to read this with the audiobook because I would've DNF'd if I read it without. It's not for me and I don't get the praise for it. It could've been shorter, and it still would've kept the essence of the story. I disliked most of the characters and they weren't interesting enough for me to be really invested. Like there were parts that were interesting, but not interesting enough for me to enjoy the book as a whole or to have been worth reading the whole thing. I liked the idea of the book and I liked the setting though.
I will not be checking out more from this author if she writes future books like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

fast-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed this one. Didn't love all the characters but the general sort of mysterious vibes really carried me through the story. I'm not big on dark academia so I checked this one out with caution. Will def check out more from this author once they publish more.
Check out content/trigger warnings just in case tho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Abandonment

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

fast-paced

2.5

Once again, beautiful writing, but I don't think these are enjoyable enough for me to continue reading the rest. 

A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

medium-paced

4.0

I like the idea of seeing/hearing Hades' side of things but I didn't enjoy his perspective as much. I will still read his along with Persephone's perspective stories tho since I still did overall enjoy it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

I'm Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal

fast-paced

4.0

(read this before knowing the co-author served as part of the iof🤢)
Overall enjoyed this quite a bit, super quick read as well. Liked the main characters and how each of the girls grew in different ways. Liked the concept of two authors writing the different povs so you could really get different voices entirely in the story.
Would be willing to read more from one author (Jones) but not the other since the other is not someone I would want to support whatsoever. I wouldn't go out of my way to read from Jones tho unless she has stated that she supports Palestinians/is against the genocidal state that shall not be named.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

fast-paced

5.0

A necessary read if you are like me who wants to be as inclusive as possible in your feminism but don't know much about the history of trans-misogyny and trans activists or trans women in general. The way trans women have been treated will piss you off (like the death of a Filipina at the hands of a u.s. military person who did NOT receive fair punishment) but their stories and voices are necessary to listen to and hear especially right now with the abundant, loud, dangerous, violent rhetoric being spewed over the past few years. We should all learn and grow and protect our trans sisters. No TERFs 💯

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, Colonisation

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

fast-paced

3.5

Fun, quick, and light read. Enjoyed the characters and loved the quick mention of Madoka Magica 😂

Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender

fast-paced

3.5

Pretty good. I listened to the audiobook, and my main issue was the volume of the adult characters and the mc's friend compared to the mc. When talking, other characters were difficult to hear because for some reason the narrator made them talk too quietly compared to the mc. I couldn't hear what they said very clearly, but if I turned the volume up, the mc's dialogue would be too loud. I think the audiobook would be much better if the narrator spoke at the same volume for all the characters.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the book overall and liked the mc and the ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

fast-paced

4.25

I'm not big on romance books or books with sex scenes, but this was a surprisingly good one for me! The sex scenes weren't drawn out or cringey for me. And I love a good retelling/reimagining of myths/legends/folklore. Since Hades introduction, I kept thinking in my best Squidward voice "oh no he's hot" 😂
Def am going to check the rest of the series out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol