immovabletype's reviews
416 reviews

Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore by Rachel Elior

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Misogyny

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Rape

Minor: Domestic abuse

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.5

my rating is actually 4.43 stars, which i only point out because it's the exact same number as the average rating. wild! i did dock the half star because it took me a while to get into this one due to the focus on the main romance in the beginning (i'm a romance girly, but this one was just a little too young for me, i think, and i really loved the plot and wanted to get back to it). however, this duology is a new favorite that i want everyone to read if they haven't yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Pregnancy and Slavery

Minor: Abortion and Homophobia

Child death/infanticide and rape are not graphically depicted, but they are so prevalent and baked into the worldbuilding and main conflicts that I can't call them moderate.

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexism, Cursing, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Alcohol, Outing, Vomit, and Pregnancy

There's a lot of behavior from various players toward the FMC in the capacity of her job that is meant to be cute but would absolutely be sexual harassment irl.

Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Blood

The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
Did not finish book. Stopped at 52%.

I can't do graphic child death. I tried to continue after that but I just don't care anymore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

adventurous dark reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, War, Death of parent, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Classism, Death, Gore, Murder, Body horror, Cannibalism, Cursing, and Excrement

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Happy Place by Emily Henry

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? Yes

5.0

I laughed, I cried, I swooned; I did all three at the same time and ended up choking on my own spit. Emily Henry is my happy place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Cursing, Drug use, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Medical content, Vomit, Chronic illness, and Infidelity

The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
Did not finish book.

Sell Like Crazy: How To Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales as You Can Possibly Handle by Sabri Suby
Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.

the type A broness was just a little too much. probably some good advice somewhere under that but I don't think this dude is what I want to model myself after as a business owner.

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Genocide and Child death