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105 reviews

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Verity by Colleen Hoover

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

dark mysterious 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

4.75

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.0

Dune by Frank Herbert

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

5.0

Normal People by Sally Rooney

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

“i’ll keep all my emotions right here and then one day i’ll die” - Marianne & Connell (also John Mulaney but who said it first idk)

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.75

Morally grey characters! A character-driven story! Characters that are actually in the new adult 22-30 age range! Dark academia! Secret societies!

^That’s just a little bit of what to love about The Atlas Six. I loved the complexity and the intelligence of the characters the most, followed by loads of philosophical explorations (that honestly went way over my head at times but definitely got a lot of highlights), and the whole ~all these people and this society are morally grey so how am I supposed to know who to trust~ vibe.

To be fair this is more of a 4.5 rounded up: the only things I’m nitpicking on are:

1. Sometimes the multiple POVs got too unevenly distributed. Namely, I was really excited for a Japanese main character, Reina (especially since she was the only one out of the six to be from the eastern hemisphere). But we ended up not getting a lot of POV from her compared to some other characters?

2. Maybe I’m just a bit dumb but I couldn’t quite grasp the whole magic world-building sometimes, which I didn’t mind *that* much since I was more focused on the characters

Overall such a great read - a bit slow at first but it picks up a lot towards the end.

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

all those vacations and it still took them 12 years???

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

5.0

The Body Papers: A Memoir by Grace Talusan

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0