katelarsenkeys's reviews
402 reviews

Unexpected Gifts by Kris Ripper

3.0

Catalysts: The Scientific Method by Kris Ripper

3.0

This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt

informative inspiring fast-paced

3.75

Personal stories profiling 70 First Nations leaders across arts, sports, science and more. 

The Emma Project by Sonali Dev

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

The fourth Desi-American Austen reimagining in The Rajes series by Sonali Dev, this one a sweet and steamy age-gap MF romance played out amidst the politics and precarities of the non-profit sector.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

4.5

Compelling feminist sci-fi meets Chinese tradition in a fight just as much with misogyny and colonisation as it is between massive mech-magic warrior bots and mysterious alien drones. 

Surviving the City by Natasha Donovan, Tasha Spillett

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

A devastating debut graphic novel about colonialism and femicide as told through current-day stories of missing and m-rdered First Nations girls and women.

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

adventurous emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Another sweet FF romcom by Alison Cochrun: a delicious, neurospicy friends-to-enemies-to-lovers second chance romance on a friend’s death road trip across the United State.

The Rest is Weight by Jennifer Mills

reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

A masterclass in short fiction: sparse but stunningly wrought glimpses of the ordinary amazingness of everyday lives across Australia, China, Mexico and more, with jaw-dropping, hat-tipping turns of phrase on almost every page.

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

adventurous

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

4.0

A magical, queer and fantastical contemporary fairy tale and young FF romance about the lengths you’ll go for the ones you love.

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

challenging informative sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

The haunting, granular prose of these parallel stories about the everyday violence of life in occupied P@lestine absolutely destroyed me.