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The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Grief

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Murder

Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara

informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content and War

This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity

The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest

emotional lighthearted sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Murder in a Cup by Lauren Elliott
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

Similar to the first book, tell versus show. Two comments that gave me the ick in the first thirty pages. I gave the first one a generous 3 stars and I don't even remember it. Not a series for me.

For context, this is one of the ick things:

“Jasmine pursed her noticeably enhanced ruby lips and gave Zoey a quick once-over, her expression showing great disdain for Zoey's natural striking beauty enhanced by her exotic olive skin tone.”

No, skin tones are not exotic. They're just skin tones!

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Sexism

Ace and Aro Journeys: A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity by The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project

emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

A good primer for anyone who is questioning and/or looking for more information on ace and aro spectrum identities. The glossary and appendix are well stocked with terminology and lots of resources.

If you've done a lot of research and/or been in ace/aro communities awhile, this probably won't be anything new to you. However, this book is littered with direct quotes of peoples' experiences and that helps give more to folks who are already decently versed in the ace/aro spec space.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Stranger Things: The Dustin Experiment by J.L. D'Amato

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5