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234 reviews

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

adventurous funny tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

Seize the Castle by Elizabeth Dear

adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

Storm the Gates by Elizabeth Dear

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

3.25

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The River of Silver by S.A. Chakraborty

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

🔥I forgot how much I loved Nahri she’s such a great MC

🔥Ali is the love of my life its still really mean that he isn’t real

🔥Some stories were definitely better than others (I loved the last one so much) but this would be amazing for a reread of the trilogy and would definitely make the reread better
🔥Overall I really enjoyed this and I’m glad I read it (I’m just not rating it because it’s a novella so it would feel weird)

Next Of Kin by Hannah Bonam-Young

lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

👶I really loved the MC Chloe,  she is exactly the type of mc I love to see - strong, happy, a good friend, great fashion etc.

👶Unfortunately I didn’t live the love interest that much. My opinion may have been better if we had his pov but we didn’t so I just didn’t really warm up to him that much

👶I wish the anxiety rep was actually there the whole book and not just mentioned a couple of times that was really disappointing

👶I didn’t like the pacing
👶I thought the lack of actual parenting was weird. Like I’m glad it didn’t take over the whole book but I feel like we didn’t really see Chloe raise a child at all. Willow was just sort of occasionally crying and that was pretty much it. 

An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

📰I loved Shadi so much and I just wanna give her a big hug

📰So many emotions

📰I loved the complicated relationships in this, but watching Shadi have to deal with everything was so hard😭

📰Loved Ali. Like a lot. He’s no Warner or Cyrus but he’s definitely a man written by Tahereh Mafi

All You Want for the Holidays by Quinton Li

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

📸I loved all of the queer rep in this!

📸I would have loved for the transition from friends to lovers to have been more natural

📸I didn’t really have enough time to connect with any of the characters

📸I wish we got to see what happened when they stopped being friends