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dani_readz_bookz's Reviews (198)

Two Can Play

Ali Hazelwood

3.25

funny hopeful lighthearted 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: Complicated

The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Complicated

The Housemaid's Secret

Freida McFadden

4.5

dark mysterious 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: Complicated

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Sensor

Junji Ito

4.5

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Heartstopper Volume 1

Alice Oseman

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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: Complicated

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami

5.0

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book will forever have me thinking about it. it's beauty, its pain, its lessons, its connections, its tragedy and its power. The plot and characters feel alive in the way Mieko Kawakami writes. I smell the rain and see as scenes play out. It made the whole experience all the more painfully beautiful. Being able to relate to the topic of bullying and seeing how these two middle schoolers trudge through deep water and have each other as support in person and through letters shared with the other brought up a sense of hopefulness and a bittersweet feeling of what interpersonal relationships can mean as well as its impact. Yes, I teared up and with such an open ending you can't help but let your thoughts run with you.