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44 reviews

Pages To Fill by Travis Baldree

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective tense 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? No

3.0

Nice prequel to Viv's first coffee experience and what she was like as an adventurer

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

adventurous hopeful 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

4.0

Fae's Deception by Melissa A. Craven, M. Lynn

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

Oh the twists and turns!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

This took me a year to read due to my ADHD but definitely a great sequel! I could definitely feel how the characters matured throughout the book. The smaller chapters spur me on and I feel like the POV is evenly spread between each character. I honestly can't wait for this to get picked up for a TV show, it'll be absolutely stunning. The way Adeyemi described things, I can truly visualise it in my head.

The fact that the war technically hasn't ended and that they're on a boat in the sea?! Who is this new player Tomi, I need to read the next one right now!!

Also I love how flawed Zelie is. I love a strong woman going through shit, and she doesn't want to run away anymore, she found her purpose, fuck yeah! Although she has horrible taste in men. Also did NOT expect Amari to kill innocent people. Trauma and abuse really twists you.

These are tortured characters that just keep getting battered and abused. Children fighting wars, as the title says. I feel for them, I really do. I feel like their deaths are inevitable but I can't look away... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

Just a lot of stuff to deal with and I wasn't in the right mindset

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement

How to Conserve Conservationists by Jessie Panazzolo
Did not finish book.

Felt whiny but that might be because I'm a conservationist. Will try again when I'm in a different mindset

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

3.0

Marked by Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

3.0

Betrayed by Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

3.0