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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Eye opening.
It’s a brutal book that reaches inside you to show you your raw truths and then turns around and tells you “you’re doing amazing, sweetie!”
I loved it as much as it destroyed some flimsy foundations I had. Now I see I can get to build new ones consciously.
It’s a brutal book that reaches inside you to show you your raw truths and then turns around and tells you “you’re doing amazing, sweetie!”
I loved it as much as it destroyed some flimsy foundations I had. Now I see I can get to build new ones consciously.
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
An upbeat middle grade book with a darkish turn.
There’s death, war and violence, buy without the fear or gruesomeness.
Plot was great, but 2/3 into it it felt like the story had been split in 2, without a clear ending for the 1st.
Also the argument forOberon being banished instead of held in the dungeons wasn’t strong enough.
P.D. Please beware, you can’t stop a fire (for minor that it looks) with flour. Please just asume all sorts of dust are flammable.
There’s death, war and violence, buy without the fear or gruesomeness.
Plot was great, but 2/3 into it it felt like the story had been split in 2, without a clear ending for the 1st.
Also the argument for
P.D. Please beware, you can’t stop a fire (for minor that it looks) with flour. Please just asume all sorts of dust are flammable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Death, Vomit, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Murder
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Grief
Red Gambit by Luke R. Mitchell
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Kinda distopian future (that we don’t get to really see or experience) featuring two “badass”, overpower full main characters/ live interests.
Being badass shouldn’t be synonym of “mean”, or “mouthy” or “wisecrack”.
For all the fight scenes, it wasn’t really clear what the real problem was or the objective for all those fights. Maybe it would have worked better as a comic book.
If you enjoy fight scenes and characters showing off their powers, you might like this book. But if you’re picky about plotting and character motivation, you might need to gather up some patience first.
About the audio, narrator might want to work on female voices, they came off as mocking. Otherwise it was great.
Being badass shouldn’t be synonym of “mean”, or “mouthy” or “wisecrack”.
For all the fight scenes, it wasn’t really clear what the real problem was or the objective for all those fights. Maybe it would have worked better as a comic book.
If you enjoy fight scenes and characters showing off their powers, you might like this book. But if you’re picky about plotting and character motivation, you might need to gather up some patience first.
About the audio, narrator might want to work on female voices, they came off as mocking. Otherwise it was great.
Avengers vs. X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Jason Aaron, Jonathan Hickman, Matt Fraction
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky, Vol. 3: Through Hell by Chip Zdarsky
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
4.0
Just Date and See by Portia MacIntosh
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
First off, Narrator has a lovely voice and made voices and tones very clear.
TW: mild mention of death, mild mention of sex, mention of cheating, emotional manipulation
My first impression was that this was going to be an enemies to lovers, but it really wasn't.
Beware, the first 1/4 of the book is about Billie's relationship problems but mostly focused on her family. Although not in a info-dump way.
This family's problems and solutions center around emotional manipulation, which explains why the main character doesn't like confrontation and ends up creating unnecessary and dramatic problems to avoid others.
As a personal note, this book is an example of how not to safely use dating apps...
TW towards the end:
Mention of almost-incest. It's between step siblings who had never met before... And no one had a real problen with it ! Wtf?
TW: mild mention of death, mild mention of sex, mention of cheating, emotional manipulation
My first impression was that this was going to be an enemies to lovers, but it really wasn't.
Beware, the first 1/4 of the book is about Billie's relationship problems but mostly focused on her family. Although not in a info-dump way.
This family's problems and solutions center around emotional manipulation, which explains why the main character doesn't like confrontation and ends up creating unnecessary and dramatic problems to avoid others.
As a personal note, this book is an example of how not to safely use dating apps...
TW towards the end:
Content Warnings
Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol, Incest, and Sexual content
Wolverine, Volume 2: Wolverine vs. the X-Men by Jason Aaron, Daniel Acuña, Jefte Palo
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Wolverine, Volume 1: Wolverine Goes to Hell by Jason Aaron
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Charon's Quest: A Gatekeeper's Saga Novel by Eva Pohler
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
A nice fast pace read if you enjoy Greek mythology genre. Characters tend to act more maturely them you'd expect in a YA, but not in a boring way.
Narrator did amazing. Characters are very distinguishable and interesting to hear from.
Beware, there are deaths mentioned throughout the book. On itself it's not unusual or unexpected in YA, but they were only really used as plot advancers. We didn't get to connect emotionally with those characters to be too affected by their deaths.
Plot or the point of the quest isn't very clear until halfway through. Up until then it feels like character is just going from one place to another without a particular reason.
Not enough showing for setting emotions. Author keeps telling us to feel sympathy instead of making us feel it.
TW: Death of people and animals, slurs, cancer, mention of rape, mild NSFW scene
Narrator did amazing. Characters are very distinguishable and interesting to hear from.
Beware, there are deaths mentioned throughout the book. On itself it's not unusual or unexpected in YA, but they were only really used as plot advancers. We didn't get to connect emotionally with those characters to be too affected by their deaths.
Plot or the point of the quest isn't very clear until halfway through. Up until then it feels like character is just going from one place to another without a particular reason.
Not enough showing for setting emotions. Author keeps telling us to feel sympathy instead of making us feel it.
TW: Death of people and animals, slurs, cancer, mention of rape, mild NSFW scene
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Animal death
Minor: Rape, Sexual content, and Cancer
House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5