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235 reviews

Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

3.5

love the art style and color pallette!! a bit weird and confusing, but i'm excited to read more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Gore, Racism

Something is Killing the Children #25 by James Tynion IV

dark medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Torture, Murder

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

mermaids—sirens are not nice and they like to eat humans ok got it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement

Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Outing

Minor: Homophobia, Dysphoria

Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Lesbophobia, Outing

Something is Killing the Children #24 by James Tynion IV

dark medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood

Nona the Ninth Sneak Peek by Tamsyn Muir

emotional mysterious

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Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

not to be dramatic but as someone who grew up in a religious family and is just now coming to terms with her sexuality, this book is something that can be so personal to me. i'm glad i read this while i'm still young, because honestly it's something i didn't know i needed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Outing

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

3.75

“Reality doesn’t matter. If you can change something’s mind enough, it’ll believe whatever reality you choose.”

so the merchant houses and their scrived tools' main thing is that they gaslight gatekeep girlboss their way into altering/manipulating objects and reality. that was interesting.

this book's biggest strengths lie on its magic system and world-building. if it were not for those two, i think i would've not continued reading, because i'm not the biggest fan of the characters (see, a character saying: "With his blood, the damned thing should open for her like a schoolgirl’s legs!" wth was that i seriously wanted to stop reading when i read that) and the writing style. also the middle took forever to read and i almost always found myself bored throughout the entire thing, which is weird, because i do love action and heists and this book has plenty of those—so maybe my problem is in the author's execution of plots and descriptions. i was also debating whether to pick up the next books or not because i really have complicated feelings about this one, but since i kinda liked the second to the last chapter and somehow i got attached to an actual key, i think i'll be continuing with this series. but not so soon, i guess. i might need a palate cleanser first.

i think if you liked six of crows, you might enjoy this, though that was not the case for me so i really don't know lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Car accident, War

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

i want to eat the prose of this book i really do

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting

Minor: Sexism, War