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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

emotional funny 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

"Everything matters so much and so little; it is disgusting."

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

"The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?"

"Hell is the absence of the people you long for."

"What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost."

Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

One of my favourite reads ever. I can't even put into Words (haha) how much I loved reading this.

"Do you know how to turn a chimpanzee into a model of stock market crisis?"

"Have you ever seen statistical theory making out with Newton's first law of motion?"

"I’m serious, Sasha: what is so important about being human? Is it because you simply haven’t experienced anything else?"

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

4.0

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

3.5

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

adventurous dark 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

""We pray for rain," Touraine said.
"No." Jaghotai squeezed Touraine's arm tightly. "Be the rain."
The rebels descended on the compound like a summer storm."

Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin

adventurous dark hopeful slow-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

A Wizard of Earthsea

"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"

The Tombs of Atuan

"She wept in pain, because she was free."

The Farthest Shore

"No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars."

Tehanu

"If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear."

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 by James Tynion IV

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3 by James Tynion IV

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0