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94 reviews

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

Poignant but I felt there was something lacking from the character development that I was really looking forward to seeing. 

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Flux by Jinwoo Chong

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Eh. Was it bad? No. Just eh. I probably should’ve dnf’d

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Chapter 31 broke me. Anyway a book where men can all read each other’s thoughts and all the women have been dead for a decade and nobody thought about being gay? Crazy. Good enough premise though. I had some fun. But maybe I won’t read the second book just yet. 

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Exactly. Exactly. 

Sophia of Silicon Valley by Anna Yen
Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.

Mid 😭 

Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0