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Game On by Seressia Glass

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

3.5

I preferred The Love Con but this was a very sweet romance with great representation 
Only When It's Us by Chloe Liese

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medium-paced

4.0

Very strong romance, smut didn’t make me cringe which was nice, just wish I’d been able to read it in a couple sittings rather than spread over a couple of weeks. 
The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan

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emotional fast-paced

4.0

I wanna live in Claire Keegans writing 
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

The writing in this is impeccable omg 
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

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3.5

Definitely one where you take what you want and what helps you and leave what doesn’t serve you 
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

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3.75

I was apprehensive to pick this up because books with cancer as a core element are always just unbearably bleak. But, I love stories about friendship and I liked the idea that this was from the perspective of the best friend of someone with terminal cancer. 

This was a overall a beautiful look at life long friendship and how much having that core relationship changed can be destabilising for all aspects of life. I did find it a bit heavy handed in trying to make the reader emotional, but for the most part I appreciated this character study 
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

So so good 
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

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2.75

Unfortunately this really did nothing for me 
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

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

4.5