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146 reviews

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Very sweet, very adorable, very autumny and halloweeny🥹 needed this

All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I feel like I didn’t get this at all. it started off so strong, then got so depressing and creepy and weird and uncomfortable, then completely irritating and fucked up, then slightly better. I am lost.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Minor: Sexism, Vomit, and Pregnancy

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

What was that…? 
What…?
Seriously.

Medusa by Jessie Burton

adventurous mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

2.0

The message was good but the language and the way this was written was so weird… idk it felt so off. Glad this was so short. 

The Letters I Will Never Send: poems to read, to write and to share by Isabella Dorta

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

beautiful and very inspiring. i need to write more.

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Solved this one kinda 👀 It was good. Not the best but good. Solid. Still better than The Big Four.

The moon by K. Tolnoe

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

The Unexpected by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

dark tense fast-paced

2.0

Damn. I don’t even know what that was.

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

3.0

I was in love, then utterly confused, then even more confused, and then in love again.
Loved the forest parts and hated the fish parts.

Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry

adventurous funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Amazing! I loved it. So witty, interesting, funny, sad and utterly emersive.
It took me a while to finish bc my brain really stored away all of that lore.

Amazing!