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124 reviews

Honeybee by Craig Silvey

dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

God I love an unreliable narrator and god does this book give you just that. The author's note provides so much context for the plot I wish I'd read it first before diving in because the tone of this novel is just so wretched the whole way through I almost couldn't finish it; I'm still not quite sure how I feel but I am glad I persevered because I grew so fiercely protective of Julian lmao

It wasn't until the last act that the true nature of Paul and Julian's dynamic began to make sense, and the feeling of their increasingly frantic desperation to reach each other is visceral. A perfect depiction of teen angst at its absolute worst, the clearest way I can think to explain the reading experience of this book is to think of the narrative as just one long intrusive thought. Incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Watership Down by Richard Adams

adventurous emotional lighthearted relaxing tense medium-paced

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

5.0

hard to describe the fierce love I have for this book - I already loved the film but there's something about the way Richard Adams draws on the real life behaviour of rabbits to inform the behaviour of the characters in his story that gives an element of authenticity and believability to the rabbits in the book. This is one of my new favourite books of all time and it's taking everything in me to not turn right back to the first page and start the whole journey over again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Violence

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

challenging emotional sad medium-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

5.0

this book chewed me up and spat me out like a pomegranate seed I cried so hard during the last quarter of this book my eyes were sore and I had to lie silently and stare at the ceiling after I was finished for a while no thoughts head empty reduced to just an absolute shell of a human. 

Vivek I love you; Akwaeke Emezi it is ON SIGHT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This book!!!!!!!!!!!! reduced me to a sobbing pile of tears and snot!!! Reminds me of A Little Life but far less sadistic and with a happier ending. Definitely a new fave

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Circe by Madeline Miller

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship

The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

My favourite of the Robot series so far!!! I love this book so much!!!!!

The dialogue and character interactions were actually my favourite part and I loved getting to learn about Aurora and the spacer world as a whole. Daneel and Giskard's interactions with Baley were so much fun, and I was glad to see Gladia back to play a part in the narrative as well. This might just be one of my new favourite reads in a while.