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Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
This book healed something in me reading about these two neurodivergent folks falling love and being there for each other. Perfect, no notes.
Daydream by Hannah Grace
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
GIVE ME LOVELY ROMANCES ABOUT NEURODIVERGENT FOLKS BEING IN LOVE. Perfect, no notes. The best Maple Hills book yet.
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
3.5
So Ridic is amazing - and we are all right to love him. But I binged the whole series back to back in 2 weeks and was honestly wondering "wait... was his character always this developed?" I feel like I want to care about the supporting characters, but they often have one note (Ridic is a jokester, Sawyer has a crush on Jesinia, Jesinia is a serious scribe, Rhi is a good squad leader) but that strong found family basis doesn't seem to be there as much as I want it to be. I also feel like the world building is malleable for Yarros so she can accomplish what she wants to.
Now, am I still here for the vibes? Yes. But it definitely is a "come for the vibes" book for me.
Now, am I still here for the vibes? Yes. But it definitely is a "come for the vibes" book for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
4.0
So while I still devoured this book, I started to have more issues with it than I did with Fourth Wing. Yarros definitely has elements she really loves to include (like why does there always have to be someone in Basgiath trying to literally ruin/destroy Violet?? Is this a message about how the military is inherently corrupt? Or is it a character archetype she enjoys??) Also, I love a strong cast of supporting characters, but there are times when I feel like there's not that strong development.
Also - I absolutely wanted to shake both Violet and Xaden, and the "you have to tell me everything, I can't trust you" just bugged me so much and I just wanted it to end.
Also - I absolutely wanted to shake both Violet and Xaden, and the "you have to tell me everything, I can't trust you" just bugged me so much and I just wanted it to end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Violence
Moderate: Death of parent
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
4.0
I by no means think this is a perfect series, but after reading all three back to back for the first time in the span of 2 weeks (and wanting to stay home from work to just read), I can say as long as I focus on the vibes it's enjoyable. There's some world building aspects I really like, but then there's other aspects where I'm like "wait, what?" Also, Basgiath seems so disrespectful for human life that it seems absolutely unsustainable. But at the end of the day I love romantasy and I love when I can be sucked into a book and devour it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
I love these two but I'm so sad Charlie has an eating disorder!! I just want them to be happy!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
informative
5.0
I know Gladwell isn't everyone's cup of tea but I really enjoy him, and I truly love how he is producing his audiobooks now that he's become a veteran podcaster. I like the structure of overstories, group proportions, and superspreaders, and I like the cases he focuses on (and added some other books to my TBR, particularly the book on Poplar Grove).
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
5.0
The opening chapter talks about how Coates has been haunted by good writing and that was an absolute hit for me. I was also familiar with some of the Palestinian aspects so that wasn't as striking for me in terms of revelation, but his description of his own evolution was compelling, and there were new details for me as well about Palestine. I really enjoyed how he investigated his own ideas and the structure of each chapter being a different trip/place, especially the idea that fictional places can have power.
Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
5.0
They're adorable!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Outing
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
- Diverse cast of characters? No
This did not age well. I enjoy reading Pulitzer Prize winners, but there were a lot of main points I felt were problematic - especially the fact that Babe's "relationship" is statutory rape, and that's not even addressing the racism. I can't speak for how it was originally received, but it's not for me in 2025.
However I do absolutely support that she shot her husband.
However I do absolutely support that she shot her husband.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence
Minor: Racial slurs