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38 reviews

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I thought I wouldn't like this book but honestly it tugged at my heartstrings and we're wonderfully executed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Wonderful book that tugs at the heartstrings with a wonderful twist at the end. 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.0

Honestly one of the best books I read, even though it has a pretty preditible twist towards the end and the romances feels a bit cliche as well but it works as it is all masterfully executed with wonderful pacing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It's a bit slow in the beginning, the charcters feels like caricatures in the first few chapters aswell. 

However the longer you get into the book the more you get to know and feel for the characters. With that said It never feels like any of them have any "real" depth, even though you can tell the author tries to make them complex and multifaceted.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

A Land of Never After: A Peter Pan Retelling by R.L. Davennor

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

It's a bit of a slow read but it's definitely a good one, worth putting yourself through.

Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light by Nikita Gill

Very cliché, feels like i'm reading the same poem again and again in different words and different format.

EDIT:
I started reading it from the back to the front and the later poems have better variety and are better written, with exceptions.

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise

adventurous 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? N/A

3.0

A very interesting and thrilling retelling of Peter Pan.

Feels a bit like Lord of the flies at times but it's a very engaging book. Makes you want to keep reading. 

Finished it in one sitting. 

Jag är Domina by Dina Sade
Did not finish book.

medium-paced

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

0.5

This book is so pretentious, badly written and overhyped.
Weirdly constructed sentances and swenglish words for no apparent reason. 

If you want to read a hot mess this is the book for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

3.0

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0