falltumn's reviews
35 reviews

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy

Minor: Biphobia, Terminal illness, Alcohol

Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner by Melissa Fredericks, Kevin Fredericks

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Pregnancy

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Transphobia, Dysphoria

Moderate: Alcohol

Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour

challenging dark emotional 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

3.25

objectively not a bad book! just too heavy for me to really enjoy. HEAVILY encourage looking into the warnings before reading, it loads a lot at the beginning but it's still prevalent throughout the whole book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent

Lone Stars by Justin Deabler

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny

Minor: Pregnancy

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America's Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them by Carol Spencer

informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Medical content

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Car accident

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Racism, Abortion, Outing