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cognitivesloth's Reviews (48)

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.0

One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

horrible pacing, tell but no showing, flat characters, and everything was too convienent in the plot/characters barely struggled/went thru anything so it was hard to even be attached to their story. giving it a 2 cause it could be funny sometimes

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.0

challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mindfucked in the best way possible thank u kaveh akbar. this book is truly beautiful btw....

Your Driver Is Waiting

Priya Guns

3.0

adventurous reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this was alright i guess. did not really care for the mc though and i did not like the overly "im clearly on twitter" type writing.

The Wind Knows My Name

Isabel Allende

3.0

emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

a cute read about important issues rn, loved the full circle moment.

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this got boring once they killed Bunny off and was too slow/meandering

Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell

4.0

ngl im a sucker for books about bands in the 60s so i ate this one upppp lowkey felt like we got 3 different genres of books in one which was also so fun i loved how whimsy this all was :)

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I really enjoyed reading this book but i also recognize that this book has tons of problems..like why did we just forget about wren/fillippia/alexander? richard was also just a big bad character with no substance....i think this book needed slightly less shakespeare quotes (love the whole thematic comparisons but the characters quoting was a bit much) and more backstory/development of characters to be better. however i was emotionally attached the whole time so big win there!