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Hang The Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur

funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

4.5

I had never... felt so disappointed in a third act break up.

Fun fact you do not need a broken heart to be worthy of a happily ever after.

You do not need to struggle to deserve peace.

Breaking Rosalind by Gigi Styx

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

dark funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-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

4.5

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I feel like this book's biggest fail is that it's very slow and intentional, but it's too short in length for that format to have successfully done what it was supposed to do.

I think it's very reminiscent of A Time Traveler's Wife and Addie Larue, which are both longer reads, and I think this book should have been closer in length to compensate for its pace.

I loved the romance I truly did, but I couldn't fully root for them when I felt like we missed so much of their real-time development.

I love subtle love stories like this, but they work best again with a longer story.
 
And also (spoiler time) I feel like with a story so heavily influenced by parenthood and so beautifully entangles both fatherhood and motherhood together and how they influence each other we didn't get enough time dwelling into the fatherhood side of things especially when we compare them to how much we were being told of motherhood.

I wanted the influences of Nathaniel's and Eamon's parenting to be shown just as strongly in contrast to each other as June and her family's were.

Like I get this was about the Farrow women but I ultimately believe since we spent so much of the story being shown how even the men in the Farrow's lives influenced each other that it couldn't be a story that so thinly involved them.

In other words, I once again wish author's showed us more of their male character's morals and motivations beyond just love interest or antagonist. If she did Mason's impact as the brother June actually had and deserved would have actually shown through instead of giving him the feel of discarded love interest who was family zoned.

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Fiction, Classics by Mary Shelley

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious relaxing fast-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

3.5

As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I am so upset I did not like this nearly as much as I hoped. 
I was genuinely shocked by how out of left field this series took and I could not suspend my disbelief enough. 
This did not feel like a realistic route Pip would have taken, except for the isolating herself to keep the others' out part that was very Pip, and I was just left baffled. 
I just...I don't know I cannot say this seems completely off kilter but its just it didn't feel like what was being built for us, I do not get and cannot comprehend that the ending and shift I was expecting from this story turned into this. 
I am usually all for being proven wrong but it just...I guess the story I was following was not what was actually on page. 
Still love Pip and this crew so much I will probably always love them like this. 

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5