bugzecat's reviews
105 reviews

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed

challenging emotional reflective sad tense 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? No

4.5

A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham

3.75

Blindness by José Saramago

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

No spoilers but the ending felt like it was rushed and finished prematurely and left me wanting and disappointed. There was also an astounding amount of ableism and harmful untrue stereotypes in this book that had me rolling my eyes and getting aggravated frequently. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Queen. 

The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

3.0

Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.75