amandas_bookshelf's Reviews (888)

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Peace Egg

Juliana Horatia Ewing

3.0

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Classism

Missing White Woman

Kellye Garrett

3.5

challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, Classism

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

DID NOT FINISH: 33%

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Will return to this at a later date

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Sexism, Suicide, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail

Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire

Ashley Spencer

3.5

informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Sonny Boy

Al Pacino

5.0

funny informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol

Long Island

Colm Tóibín

3.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Alcohol

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.0

reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death, Abortion

The Third Gilmore Girl

Kelly Bishop

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Stalking

Moderate: Cursing, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death