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35 reviews

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell by Taj McCoy

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.75

I loved the main love interest! I wish Savvy had got to feeling good as hell a little faster. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Details about dieting

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

A good commentary on how our economic system will lead to our downfall and an accidental illustration of the hubris of the colonizer. Expect old-timey racism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Classism

Moderate: Cannibalism and Racism

Minor: Colonisation

One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is the lengths people will go to dehumanize one another for their own gain. You can simultaneously despise how others approach dehumanization while you do the same thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Body horror, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, and Rape

Through Clouds of Smoke: Freud's Final Days by Suzanne Leclair

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

3.25

The artwork is beautiful!