cramer2c's reviews
337 reviews

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

challenging emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection by Mimi Zhu

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

Squire by Nadia Shammas

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-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

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

challenging emotional informative reflective 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? N/A

5.0

Almost what I wished yellow face was? Yu tackles the narratives written for Asian people and coming out of the fog for himself and other Asians vs Kuang who writes with the insight of an Asian woman in publishing but overtly explains white violence as if the reader hasn’t felt it before.

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

dark informative mysterious reflective

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

3.0

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? N/A

5.0

This story centers community driven solutions,

doesn’t fall into the girl follow boy trope

, follows the strength and weight of generational wisdom, and shares sad & hard but real- truths. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75