caitlin_a's reviews
400 reviews

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

emotional informative fast-paced

4.5

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White

challenging dark emotional sad slow-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

Lie with Me by Philippe Besson

dark emotional 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

4.5

still can’t get over the fact that the molly ringwald tess fled this

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

emotional tense 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? Yes

3.5

felt a bit fan-fictiony but overall enjoyed the story and characters

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

emotional funny 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? Yes

3.5

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

dark emotional 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

3.75

i wish this book was just about tori(a character i relate to a suspicious amount) and the whole solitaire thing just wasn’t a plot. especially with what happened in the end it just made the book feel too unrealistic and took me out of the story 

This Winter by Alice Oseman

emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.5

1984 by George Orwell

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The Verifiers by Jane Pek

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.25

just couldn’t get behind the plot of the book, it felt too unrealistic and what the mc was doing just felt so weird and wrong that i couldn’t care about her