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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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adventurous 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

4.0

The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein by Antoinette May

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adventurous emotional informative medium-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

4.0

A first person dramatic telling to Mary Shelly's life.
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

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

3.5

This is a story within a story flashing from a modern day vacation to Victorian England 
Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic by Margaret Gray

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challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

Nonfiction book about how our current industrial food complex works and how many calls to reform focus on consumers and animals but leave out exploited workers.
Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

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adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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adventurous dark 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

4.75

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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lighthearted slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Stephen Mitchell, Byron Katie

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.
This book firmly belongs in the past. Within the first ten pages there are derogatory remarks against transwomen, implications that you owe your partner sex, and that your depression is your own fault for not being positive enough. 
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Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

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adventurous dark emotional medium-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

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

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adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.5