garlinds's reviews
124 reviews

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The premise of this book is so up my alley that I don't know how I'd never heard of it before it was chosen as the FictonMatters Book Club pick in December. It is about a boarding school for teens who have returned from fantastical worlds, similar to Wonderland or Narnia.

I throughly enjoyed reading this and I felt like I had been transported directly into the story. However, I definitely wasn't expecting a fairly dark and fast-paced murder mystery.

This book left plenty of loose ends that have me want to devour the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Collectors by Philip Pullman

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Serpentine by Philip Pullman

adventurous reflective tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

dark emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

Circe by Madeline Miller

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

adventurous hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

dark funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0