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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

reflective 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

4.75

I only wish it was longer.

Conclave by Robert Harris

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

3.75

Think of the messiest person you know... It's a man, isn't it?

But for real, this was so crazy islamphobic and firmly up the ass of the Catholic Church, I'm surprised it didn't come with a stamp of approval. Not even the intersex pope helped it because even he was down with the islamphobia, noooo. 

Um. The movie outsold xoxo.

Full Immersion by Gemma Amor

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

What an amazing start to the year! A book about trauma and intrusive thoughts, actually digging into the misery of having your own brain as a memory. And balancing that with a plot that's dynamite, with compelling characters ... Baby, we're so back.

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.

Aggressively bored and it's not even funny. You keep trying to get into Luoying's mind but there's nothing in there really, and it's so frustrating in the most random of ways, like what do you mean you never thought about your position in life ever?

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I'm so mad that I never read this before but I'm also glad I'm reading this now with a bigger brain so I can appreciate it better. This is delicious, I cried actual tears at many points, and I just. Girl. He really did pull fire from the heavens and the monster was the eagle who ate his liver daily.

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

fast-paced

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

3.0

Um. Like, it's not a bad book, but it is, as my dear friend described it, "pre-chewed", one of those books that go down really easy and leave no impression on you. Once or twice I was very interested and then I was extremely bored/let down. 

A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
Did not finish book. Stopped at 67%.

A badly written book, a book that forgets mid-plot what it said early and retcons its thesis in the middle is enough to make me scream. Like,.oh my god. I wasted notebook paper on this??!!! Like what the hell.... Literal chapters of Gregor building a family and then 'actually I feel nothing for her' ... No. Annoying. No.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

Iconic in the way only a book about a witch going through intense religious turmoil and questioning where she stands in society as someone decidedly Wicked™️by virtue of her birth/circumstances outside of her control can be. I know there's others in the series but Elphaba wrestling with the concept of having a soul when she's been deemed wicked by her skin and disposition is enough for me, yeah 

The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.

Realized I didn't care and wanted to read something else.

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

Tried again bc I thought I was being too harsh but no I was right! I'm literally too grown and too aware of growing up Black, lesbian and poor to relate to this.