lindasoderlundd's Reviews (156)

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Anthony Doerr

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicide

Kärpästen herra

William Golding

3.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Violence, Murder, Abandonment

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, War

All the Young Dudes

MsKingBean89

dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, War

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Incest, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

5.0

adventurous emotional sad slow-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

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I loved it. The Song of Achilles is breathtakingly beautiful. The writing is vivid, Patroclus and Achilles are captivating characters, and their story is intimate and heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Grief, Abandonment, War

Moderate: Bullying, Rape

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility, Car accident, Death of parent

Och bergen svarade

Khaled Hosseini

2.0

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Dementia, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death

Minor: Excrement

Tusen strålande solar

Khaled Hosseini

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Katherine-teorin

John Green

2.0

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Dementia

Auschwitzin tatuoija

Heather Morris

1.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It feels wrong to give a book about the Holocaust just one star, but it's the writing of the book and not Lale's story itself that I'm rating. The writing is very simplistic; the characters and relationships lack depth, and the story is written in a way that doesn't evoke emotions. I expected this book to make me feel deeply, but I felt almost nothing at all. Lale's story should have been written by a more competent author; one that could have brought it to life and not made it fall flat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Antisemitism

Moderate: Child death

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Joël Dicker

1.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury