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123 reviews

The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need by Jessica Brody

informative inspiring fast-paced

3.0

Some good information but there’s is a lot to skip over. 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

fast-paced

I mean, yeah, it’s a really good book, but it’s also just 200 pages of a man telling us about all the things he got away with in 1971. Also massive trigger warning for slurs and totally uncalled for violence against women

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Addiction, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Rape, and Homophobia

The Me You Love In The Dark by Skottie Young

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Confinement, and Death

A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-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

For a while I felt like I wasn’t liking this book, but every time I stopped reading it was all I could think about. Gripping stuff

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Sexual violence

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

Would be a five star book but you have to be in the right headspace to fully understand it

Bina: A Novel in Warnings by Anakana Schofield

challenging mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

The Clerk by Guillermo Saccomanno

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

2.0

Saccomanno being likened to Dostoyevsky in the author's blurb should have been a red flag. You read enough about men going crazy, you get really bored of watching their psychological downfall. The protagonist was boring, a little trite too, and the supporting characters were more interesting. The women are othered and far more compelling than any of the men. I would have preferred to read this story from the secretaries point of view. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, Classism, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Child abuse

Minor: Violence, Stalking, War, and Torture

Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman

challenging reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

A really well done and interesting book, but very slow and hard to get through. There’s a lot of thought provoking stuff in here but it’s about 200 pages too long 

The Crow: Curare by Antoine Dode, James O'Barr

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Comes with a classic O’Barr content warning as he once again finds inspiration form real true-crime stories. 

To be honest, I wanted the little girl to be the Crow and inflict her own revenge, not be fridged for the detective. But it ended up being a very beautiful story. I liked that the girl got to exact some of her own revenge in the end, so I’m not as mad about the lack of real “Crow”.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Medical content and Violence