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345 reviews

The Fabric of Our Souls by K.M. Moronova

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.75

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell

challenging dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer

adventurous 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

Rook & Rebel by Kate Crew

adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

adventurous funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful Graves by L.J. Shen

3.75

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

OMgsh I resonated SO MUCH with this book. 
As a mixed woman with, what could be considered, a white name, I also got what the author what talking about how people expected to find a white man whenever she explained who she was. 
There were so many things relevant to what's going on right now in the country, and it's crazy. 
One line that really stuck out with me is when the author was mentioning what hope she has for racism changing. She explained how someone had once told her that if her ancestors were born in the mid 1700s they had nothing but ancestors who had experienced being enslaved and looked forward to their children being enslaved, and so the outlook of slavery ending looked very bleak. She explained how this resonated with her and how she feels about racism now. We live in a time where we have ancestors and older generations who lived through slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, and we are still having to explain to our young children how to protect their bodies and peace from white experiences they will inevitably live through. 
With the climate of the country right now, that part REALLY stuck out with me, because I thought I was living in such a good time for a black person, because I wasn't experiencing slavery, I was ignorant in my thinking that racism had gone down, but we've reverted back to when anyone who isn't rich, white is looked at as lesser than and undeserving. 
She left with the message that where this may be the world we are experiencing, and hope seems like a thing that is so hard to reach for, don't stop fighting. Be angry, be an agent of change and do it in the way that you can, just don't give up.