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142 reviews
The Witch Queen of Halloween by Kresley Cole
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura
adventurous
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
It took me a while to get into this book (#mood reader probs), but once I picked it back up a few days ago, I was hooked. I flew through the last third of the book last night and this morning. The tension was so thick and then it all exploded at the end. The ending was tricky because the main conflict in the back was not one that can be solved by two individuals realistically. What can two people do about systemic injustices and aggressions that this country is basically built on?
I did love the theme of Black community. And at the end, it was Black community that saved the MCs. The elderly folks who had lived through this horrific type of attack before knew what to do and showed the fuck up.
Reading this as a white woman was hard in the way it was meant to be, I believe. Cole doesn't ever let up on white folks and it felt so necessary that white readers, like myself, feel implicated while reading this book because WE ARE. Theo's ignorance about the realities of the Black experience in this country shed so much light on how little we know and how little we question things. This was eye-opening and gripping in the best and worst ways.
I did love the theme of Black community.
Reading this as a white woman was hard in the way it was meant to be, I believe. Cole doesn't ever let up on white folks and it felt so necessary that white readers, like myself, feel implicated while reading this book because WE ARE. Theo's ignorance about the realities of the Black experience in this country shed so much light on how little we know and how little we question things. This was eye-opening and gripping in the best and worst ways.
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
adventurous
emotional
tense
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
5.0
Incredible world building, intense moments, so many characters and their POVs, which made it a little tricky for me to get momentum in my reading but also made it very easy to stay interested in who the next chapter was going to be about. Loved the character development and seeing how they all converge/or not.