brizlee's reviews
22 reviews

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

emotional reflective tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Lesbophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Police brutality

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder

Moderate: Gore

Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

adventurous dark hopeful sad 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

5.0

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

adventurous inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse

The Q by Amy Tintera

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.5

Fun, Quick, Lighthearted. If I hadn’t read this as part of group I probably would hate it a lot more but instead I just found it funny. The plot was interesting but the romance felt forced and there’s a lot of loose threads. Felt like it was supposed to be a series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content

Minor: Death

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

adventurous dark sad 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

3.25

Genuinely made me scared of a puppet. Also loved the twist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death

Minor: Pregnancy

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

The bisexual panic is real. I genuinely don’t know how to express with a keyboard how good this book is and how much I love it. 

Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

2.25

The plot and romance is barely balanced and the characters feel very underdeveloped.