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garbage_mcsmutly's Reviews (1.74k)

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was recommended by someone from bookstagram but I found it mid. It was fine. Nothing to get excited about though. I will not be continuing the series. 

🎧 Dual POV but only one male narrator. It was hard to get into the FMC POV because of this.

🌶️ 3.75/5 Decent amount of spice for a pretty short book.

🏳️‍🌈✊ No diversity to speak of, unless you count aliens.

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

One of the blurbs said this was a really well written book for being a debut, and they were totally correct. It was interesting, it was compelling, it was sometimes surprising. 

🎧 Dual first person POV. She's English, he's Scottish. Both narrators were great.

🌶️ 3/5 There are a few explicit scenes but they are not super spicy.

🏳️‍🌈✊ There is a lot of diversity in this story, but not much of the racial/cultural variety. The FMC is autistic, as is another character. The FMC is also fat. One of the side characters is non-binary and two others are queer. There's also a villain who constantly spews anti woke rhetoric and we get to see a lot of rebuttals to that in the characters' POVs.

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funny hopeful fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No

This was a fun cute contemporary. The MMC is a semi professional rower so there's some sports stuff throughout the book but it's not sports heavy.

🎧 It's set in England so there are British accents which is always enjoyable for me. Dual POV with two narrators, both did a good job.

🌶️ 3/5 This was one of those weird ones where like, the mechanics of the sex are described, but not in a sexy way? There were a few (2-3?) sex scenes but they weren't exciting.

🏳️‍🌈✊ No diversity that I can recall. Everyone seems to be straight and white and English.

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emotional lighthearted 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

Honestly other than the fact that I wish it had been spicier this was a pretty perfect historical. I love that it centered women's reproductive health and that the MMC evolved beyond his limited POV. 

🎧 This was dual POV with only one (female) narrator. Once in a while it was hard to tell when exactly the POV switched but you could catch on fairly quickly.

🌶️ 3.75/5 There was a teensy bit of power play (a blindfold and the lightest of restraints) in the explicit scenes. There were several scenes but they were not the focus of the story. 

🏳️‍🌈✊ There is diversity in the side characters that we barely see but the main cast is mostly white and straight. Side characters include a trans man and a South Asian family. The daughter of the MMC is half Black (but the mother is dead so we don't see much about her as a character, although it is also apparent that she seemed to deal with mental illness, maybe bipolar). And there's a focus on women throughout the book, especially on women in STEM, as well as on misogyny and women's rights.

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emotional funny hopeful 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

This was two books in one: Caught on Camera, which was 11-12 hours long, and another novella (Camera Chemistry) which was 6ish hours. They were of similar quality though so I feel like the rating applies to either/both stories. 

🎧 Two narrators, dual POV. They both did well. 

🌶️ 4/5 I would say these are spice-forward stories. There is an emphasis placed on the spicy stuff and showing it explicitly. 

🏳️‍🌈✊ Not much diversity to speak of. There are side characters who are POC but they don't factor in that much (the coach's players). I can't recall any diversity in regards to gender or sexuality.

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

This was well written but not my favorite. It's hard to fit much of substance into such a short book, but this still had heart. Childhood friends who had a falling out find each other again a decade later.

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Take Me, Daddy

Sara Fields

DID NOT FINISH: 54%

Hack writing. Cliched, awkward. And the one spicy scene I got to was tepid.
funny lighthearted 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

This book ended up being okay but the middle was a real slog and then there was a lot of plot advancement and action smooshed together at the end. I wish the pacing had been more even. 

🎧 Dual POV, dual narrators. 3rd person. The female narrator was fine. I read immersively for a lot of this book, and the male narrator made so many acting choices that I found strange or just wrong based on what was on the page. 

🌶️ 1/5 just kissing

🏳️‍🌈✊ The diversity on this book was decent! Four MCs, all of whom are queer, at least one of whom is bisexual. One FMC is Thai and one MMC is half middle eastern. 

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funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wish this was a romance, I really
wanted a HEA, but alas, twasnt to be
. This was a fun conclusion to the heist trilogy of novellas. Ada is eminently lovable even if she's slightly mercenary. The banter is decent and she's really funny.

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lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I think the nods to Stars Hollow were awkward rather than cute? I think it was weird how they shoehorned in a white guy asking a WOC about her heritage just to make it clear she was diverse. I don't feel like the wishing tree lore was explained enough. This could have benefited from being like 20 pages longer to make things make more sense.

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