aminaotaa's reviews
118 reviews

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Cjute🥰

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

3.25

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

adventurous funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

Technically ive finished this book already but i forgot to take notes on the last 60 ish pages so i have to reread them for my analysis in school but my review is soon to come. The more i read this book the more annoyed i get when i realise that the reason i have to read lt is for school

Animal Farm by George Orwell

funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

Four legs good, two legs bad🙃

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

The writing deserved 5 stars, Virginia Woolf is so very talented but reading this ws hard which made it less enjoyable on my part, still an interesting book though + really fun diving into the different characters minds!

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Holden Caulfield has PTSD, this book gave me PTSD.

Solitär by Alice Oseman

funny relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Okay now that I've had a bit of time to think after reading this, i just want to preface by saying that i do not hate this book by any means, i just did not like the main character Tori, she was just too insuffrable. I liked Charlie i guess obvioulsy because i’ve watched heartstopper but yeah Tori was unlikable. I don’t know why the book was written, idk the themes were confusing. Was this book about bullying? Friendship? Mental health? Or was it a thriller?

I also didn’t like how Tori dealt with Charlie’s mental health, i just felt like the comments that she was making were just borderline heartless. She is so self-centered, i wish she could realize that everything isn’t about her. And beacuse this book had so many different storylines all of them just felt very surface level. 

The Icicle by Carolyn Marie Castagna

emotional lighthearted relaxing

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Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

3.5