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59 reviews

Before I Called You Mine by Nicole Deese

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-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? No

5.0

The Perfect Rom-Com by Melissa Ferguson

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? No

5.0

Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner by Janice N. Harrington

4.0

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten by Ina Garten

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

4.0

I'll Come to You by Rebecca Kauffman

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Grief

Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Violence, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Tomfoolery: Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-Of-Age of Children's Books by Michelle Markel

4.0

Hurricane Season by Lauren K. Denton

emotional 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

3.0

I do appreciate a clean southern women’s fiction novel. No sex, language or worldly ideologies. But this one dragged on a bit for me, which is why I kept putting it down and picking it up over the course of almost two years. 

I am determined to be a Lauren K. Denton completist, so I will read the rest of her backlist!

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

adventurous emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Narrative nonfiction at its finest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Suicide attempt

Vox by Christina Dalcher

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

“It’s frightening what she’s grown to accept as normal.” p.3

Dystopian-Thriller is not a genre that I can read a lot of. I was on edge and could not put the book down, every chapter was a cliff hanger, and the chapters were short!

At first I thought I would hate this, because it really paints “far right evangelical men” as evil and definitely has a heavy dose of feminism. 

But reading it from a Christian worldview, I found it to be a humble reminder that without Christ in one’s life, any human, male or female, will be as evil as their flesh wants to be. In 2020, you saw a rise of science and government tyranny, just like in past and present history, you see religious tyranny. It all has a same root cause: sin and the lack of one’s soul submitted under the Holiness of God. 

Also, my local library has a book club coming up, and I will mainly be a fly on the wall but I’m very interested in hearing different perspectives. 

If you like clean reads, do not read this. TW for strong language, short sexual scenes, suicide and mistreatment of women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Suicide attempt