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80 reviews

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

A cute little read with messages about the importance of corral reefs & environmental protection, family, loss and grief.

I absolutely adore the art style of K. O'Neill's books. ♡

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life by Ken Robinson

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.

I started this last year when I decided to quit Uni and was trying to find myself.
I knew too little about myself and did too few things in my daily life to get much out of the book and it's exercises. I didn't want to DNF and told myself this book could help but I just couldn't answer many things or do the exercises correctly, so o just slogged through the pages and didn't get far.

I now have a job and my life has changed a lot since starting this book and I would need to start all over again to get anything out of it. Hence DNFing. (For now)

I do think this book can help in finding passions and realizing what you want and don't want to do but for that you have to be already doing something.
If you are stuck in limbo and literally just existing, this book is probably not the right resource at this moment.

I do plan on picking this up again in a few months or so because I do like the idea and think it can help me recognize things about myself.
It was just the wrong time for me to start it.

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

It was quite the fun read and I was thinking of giving it 4.5 stars but then the last few chapters kinda threw me out of it a bit.

So much happened so fast all of the sudden and it turned into kind of a different story. When I finished I just thought: "...What just happened??"

I did like Briseis and many of the other characters in the book. I think Briseis' powers and all the connections to Greek mythology were very interesting. I liked the mentions of lesser known Greek mythological characters.

It was pretty enjoyable overall and I'm excited to read the second book of this duology. I'm interested in seeing where this goes.

The Christmas Catch by Clare Lydon

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced