glitterpeach's reviews
11 reviews

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous dark funny 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

5.0

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad by Alice Oswald

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

The Troop by Nick Cutter

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Self harm, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Cursing, Excrement, and Panic attacks/disorders

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Excrement, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, and Sexism

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

A necessary reading on the history of the United States, told from the perspective of the people history rarely talks about.  

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book will mess with your brain and leave you sitting on the couch in despair.