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154 reviews

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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

5.0

Bunny by Mona Awad

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Collected Poems, 1934-1953 by Dylan Thomas

1.0

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Does it help if I say I read 350 pages almost in one sitting. Today. This is the most perfect ending to this series, to this universe Leigh Bardugo has created. I laughed, I cried, I squealed and kicked the air because I’m extra. It just all feels done now. Everything is as it should be, and that’s the best thing one can say about an ending.  

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

The whole Darkling plotline has me fuming but damn if I didn’t love the rest. 

Bone Crier's Dawn by Kathryn Purdie

dark emotional tense

3.75

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I cried a thousand tears. I loved this book to death but I also in a way wish it had been able to end differently, but also that was really the only way it could end and it was a great ending, the best ending to a series I’ve ever read. I just love these characters and wish they could’ve had more. 

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

4.0

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

If you think this is a lighthearted fantasy for kids, you’d be wrong. The concepts in this book are horrifying, the main character Lyra faces some horrible abuse and hardships, and though it’s perfectly understandable for a child, I didn’t fully grasp the horrors of this universe until I reread as an adult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Medical trauma

There’s a lot of discussion and descriptions of what is essentially an awake lobotomy but worse and more traumatic and fatal. Descriptions of violence and body horror, descriptions of experimentation on children including a form of torture that isn’t real but is still horrific to read about.

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0