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99 reviews

Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum

2.0

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Edmund and Fanny are more tolerable in the movie, but Fanny and Edmund's relationship is more tolerable in the book. Thomas the younger is much more likable in the book. The movie is more climactic. Jane Austen's opinion on wealth distribution, land ownership, and slavery are much less obvious to our modern eyes, to the point where if you blink, you might miss it. But it IS still in there, so that's something. It's not the best Austen. (That's Northanger Abbey, don't @ me) 

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

a white eugenicist living in mexico for hundreds of years and never bothering to learn spanish is just...exactly right

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Vomit, Medical content

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

Lirael by Garth Nix

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

#CassiNova by Lori G. Matthew

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• 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

Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75