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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I gave this book 5/5 but honestly I would give this book a 9/5 rating if I could. It is so good, I was rooting for Abitha the entire time and the way the author got me to absolutely hate the townspeople as quickly as they did.. I have no words. This was such an emotional read and I love it it had exactly what I was looking for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

Rating: N/A (because it's a memoir) but I genuinely enjoyed it. And found so much of it heartbreaking, relatable, and inspiring.

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Actual rating 3.71 out of 5
That's the mean of all the stories which I rated separately out of 10. Each books rating is as follows.

Follow Them Wherever They Go - 6/10

Bodies Are For Burning - 8/10

The Strange Things We Become - 8/10

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There - 7/10

You Shouldn't Be Here - 9/10

Where The Flames Burned Emerald As Grass - 6/10

I'll Be Gone By Then - 8/10

Please Leave Or I'm Going To Hurt You - (Not rated)

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely worth the hype (which I don't say often) omg this was such a an amazing read.

Spanked Brats: The Trespasser by Harley Laroux

3.0

Film for Her by Orion Carloto
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

I got 31% of the way through

But I don't think I can continue. This book is not bad, however for a book that claims it's poetry most of it is not... poetry and doesn't have any cadence to follow. A lot of them are semi-deep thought or ideas that don't hold any weight because they're not well executed or they are just straight up simplified to a point that they become a clichè you've heard 1000x's before. There are a couple of poems that I genuinely enjoyed which you can see in my journal entries for this book, but I don't think I can finish it, though I did go in giving it a fair shot.

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Really good, a bit repetitive at times but honestly I wasn't expecting that plot twist. Overall a very fun popcorn type of read.

The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Loved it will elaborate on it more later.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

DNFing at 10%
I can't get past the over explanation of the same shit 50x over. The description of weather, land, and family dynamics- especially the depiction of that family dynamic was really well done (for the most part) everything else not so much.

1408 by Stephen King

3.0