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Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher

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

0.25

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This book fucking sucked. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. The lgbt parts do not automatically redeem or make good that which is hot shit [like this book]. It's ok to say lgbt media like this book sucks shit straight out of a butthole.

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medium teen pregnancy, child abandonment, sexual content [underage ], 

major domestic abuse, eating disorders, mental health institutions, child abuse, fire, homophobia, child death, medical abuse, 

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The Kingless Crown by Sarah M. Cradit

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dark sad slow-paced

0.25

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This feels like is a really long prequel to the actual book promised. A game of thrones RIP off tbh. This was the best you had to offer? Hm ok. Should've left it in your diary girl. I genuinely believe the author has purchased 5 star reviews. Nobody who reads this could enjoy it. 600+ pages and what's happened? Jack. No shit.

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major misogyny, pedophilia, rape, violence, slurs, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, breast feeding kink, sexual abuse, confinement, diseases, sexual violence, 

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This Is Not a Ghost Story by Andrea Portes

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

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i have typed up this review with all the due resepct this shit ass cockmogling author and book deservse. smile of color.

ok so the author us white so o dont have many high expectations for this book but its and hour long read so meh. 

very ya immature writing style. the fucking book summary is better written than the book. 

the author is incredibly gratuitous with starting new chapters. it feels like every new scene change it's a new chapter. it's rather exhausting to read this way. 

no wonder my moonreader app said this would be an hour read. it has a lot if rambling quirky white girl filler. if this was decently edited, it would be ten pages long. 

mc feels like a stereotype of a Mary sue back in the 90s 

at chapter 12 I started rapidly skipping through pages. you dont even need to read it, just get the vibe of what part of the story arc you're in. 

all the horror has no tension. it's repeatedly told to you that a thing occurred, usually a common trope, and that it's scary. 

that's thousand school is described to you. that's it. the rest of the story is just the mc telling you how she feels and what her thoughts are. it's very static and dull. 

I give up at chapter 23. this isn't fun even to hate read. nothing happens and I'm not given motive to care. this feels like a immatute white girl trying to relive her days in high schools. 

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minor white settlers, slavery / harry potter reference, ablest c slur, paranoia, dogs, suicide ideation, antisemitism in flat earth theory shit, anti black racism referring to the closed religion Vodou,  

medium classism, antisemitism, misogyny, divorce, house fires, death, 

major lesbophobia, 

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Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang

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adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0


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One by One by Ruth Ware

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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minor david bowie, death, gambling, 

medium unsanitary, misogyny, sexual harassment 

major child abuse, murder, suicide, bullying, sexual violence, injuries , gore, stalking / paranoia?, alcohol, death, 

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Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor

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slow-paced

0.25

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Oh ew eugh. I can't recommend this at all. The oh so maculine machisma and misogyny and horniness the author has for the male cavers is a) so fucking apparent and b) incredibly distracting because it's embedded in nearly every paragraph.

I'm serious. Look at this.

▪ That impressed Stone. The next morning, he lingered in camp to chat her up. Well, sort of. Bill Stone wasn’t much of a chatter. His pickup line was really a series of short, sharp questions about her caving experience, delivered almost as though he were interviewing her for an expedition. Which, in a way, he was.  For her part, am Ende was angered rather than attracted, but she could not help being impressed by Stone’s energy, strength, and caving skill. A kind of electric charge seemed to surround Bill Stone, felt by all, men and women alike, who came in contact with him. It was, for lack of a better word, exciting. 

can thus author stop sucking stones dick? This feels like real person fanfic. This guy wants to gobble Stone's nutsack so BAD. Good lord.

▪ Perhaps understanding that Lothario was not his best role, Stone secreted a business card in one of am Ende’s packs. She found it after arriving home, and understood that she had at least passed Stone’s first level of scrutiny.
There were others, of course. Stone was grieving the loss of his family—he and Pat were separated, their divorce still in the works—and did not want to go through that again. Any woman he became involved with now would have to keep up with him on the surface as well as in caves. That meant, first of all, being a competent caver. It also meant being fit—very fit. Stone knew that expeditionary caving, and especially deep-cave diving, demanded extreme fitness, and he worked hard to stay in shape, running and cycling and weightlifting. Am Ende passed that test, too. She was trim and athletic, riding a bicycle from her apartment to classes every day, and was a regular runner as well. 

THIS IS SO GROSS. IMG YOU BURIED YOUR GRIEF IN TWENTY ONE YO PUSSY DOT JPG

▪ During one team meeting, which did not include am Ende, Porter said, “Let’s be honest. She wouldn’t even be here if she weren’t Bill’s girlfriend.”
But that was not entirely true, and am Ende had her defenders. One was a more experienced cave explorer named Tom Morris, a biologist from Florida.
“She’s like some dream Amazon,” he said. “Some tall, blond geologist caver who dives his rebreathers. Good for friggin’ Bill.” 

cool great objectification. I know most hobbies are a Old Boys Club and this just proves it.

▪ Am Ende was a cave diver, albeit a newly minted one, having earned her basic scuba certification just a year earlier. She was also the first in a series of younger, very attractive women Bill Stone would take with him to the great caves. The habit invited another comparison between Stone and Reinhold Messner, who brought beautiful young women along on some of his memorable climbs. During his greatest of all, the solo, oxygenless ascent of Everest in August 1980, his lover Nena Holguin held silent vigil for him in their tent and was there to help when he returned, utterly spent. 

I know author portrays this is a romantic good thing but it just exemplifies how fucked up the author is and these great white colonizing explorers.

Oh yeah and there's SO much racism.

▪ Later, the pair would learn that these rituals had been carried out by ancient Cuicatecs, Native Americans who had lived in the region a thousand years before the conquistadors arrived and whose descendants inhabited the region still. 

Hey look an author that actually acknowledges that indigenous people aren't archaic extinct people. PSYCH this is probably a one off XD.

▪ In the past, villagers had vandalized vehicles, threatened cavers with machetes, stolen equipment—and worse. In 1968, angry Mazatec Indians nearly killed a female caver named Meri Fish. She was about 175 feet above the cave floor, but still far below the mouth of a nearby cave called La Grieta, when machete-wielding locals chopped her rope while others held her horrified husband at bay on the surface. She had just climbed past a small ledge, which, miraculously, arrested her fall after a few feet. Seconds earlier, or later, and she would have fallen to a bad death on the rocks below. 

good for them 🖤

▪ They accepted, though perhaps warily, given their people’s ancient conception of caves, but in any case not really understanding what they were in for. He did not have to take them very far before, awestruck and intimidated, they thanked him lavishly and said it would be fine to go back now. Stone’s diplomacy quieted the locals’ fears for the time being.

I hate how white this book is and how it dismisses indigenous people's concerns of continue colonization and desecration of their native lands.

This book is about caving. How the fuck is there so much misogyny and racism and horniness for cavers in this. No,nah girl, skip this.

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minor Joseph stalin mention quotes, suicide, human sacrifice, 

medium bioessentialism, antisemitism [flat earth idea], colonization, desecration of indigenous sites, Christopher columbus, 

major claustrophobia, drowning scenarios, drowning death, 


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A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman

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

2.0

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It's real interesting and creepy, great writing but it went kinda no where. cool story to tell the kids tho. The sex under water was stupid as fuck. But I guess they're stupid teens who will do stupid teen shit. 

If you want weird architecture horror a la House of Leaves, 'leaf' this one alone. [Eh? EH?? Get it? LEAF? ah eh hm....8| ]

I do wish the plot did something besides the stupid sex underwater thing. Was that supposed to be an analogy? Malerman that fucked sucked. Dude. Think up something better. Less horny. You're white, you have the burden of white horror men authors known to be fucking gross about sex. Don't be like your ancestors. Jerk off before writing. Thanks!

I gotta agree with geve_'s review over here tbh re about sex scenes, stupid teens, etc. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/583bfeaa-9e67-42fc-a8d3-a6170a7deb46

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minor indigenous racism, ableism, sexual content, snakes, gore, 
medium spiders, 
major sexual content underage sex scene involving teens, spiders, poison, unreality, underwater scenes, 



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The Bridge by Stuart Prebble

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dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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Pretty standard mystery thriller. It was an ok 60 minute read for me. Not too memorable. Definitely cop propaganda. Chapter seventeen is where everything gets explained if you just want to know the why and not follow the journey there. The plot does feel rather contrived but eh, I'm not expecting a masterpiece.


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minor the sun magazine , addiction, child abuse, suicide, 

medium alcohol use, grief , infidelity, 

major child death, death, dementia, drowning, medical content, murder, police, suicide

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A Universe of Wishes by Dhonielle Clayton

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3.0

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fave stories Liberia by Kwame Mbalia, The Coldest Spot in the Universe by Samira Ahmed though the eugenics is fucked up, The Takeback Tango by Rebecca Roanhorse, and Habibi by Tochi Onyebuchi.

Stories not listed here don't have CWs from me because I forgot to do so 

◆ A Universe of Wishes by Tara Sim
major death, gore, unsanitary, 

◆ Cristal y Ceniza by Anna-Marie McLemore
major rape, sex slavery, misogyny, forced marriage, colorism, classism, 

◆ The Takeback Tango by Rebecca Roanhorse
minor alcohol, genocide, colonization, slavery. prisons, 
medium demolition, 

◆ Unmoor by Mark Oshiro
major memory loss, cheating behavior, toxic relationships, 

◆ The Coldest Spot in the Universe by Samira Ahmed
minor child death, mass death, major eugenics, ecofascism,
major death, gore, climate change, 

◆ Longer Than the Threads of Time by Zoraida Córdova
minor body horror, dogs, animal death, unsanitary, menstruation 
major child abuse? not sure the age, imprisonment, 

◆ Habibi by Tochi Onyebuchi
minor insects, 
medium guns, gang related scenes, 
major gun violence, gore, suicide, blood, police brutality, prison abuses, anti black racism, black people death, starvation, hunger strikes, colonial occupation / colonization

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Beyond the Pale: A Fantasy Anthology by Jane Yolen, Peter S. Beagle, Z Brewer, Gillian Philip, Saladin Ahmed, Nancy Holder, Rachel Caine, Kami Garcia, Jim Butcher

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

3.0

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You know this is going to be an excellent anthology with two Jewish authors are in it. Unfortunately there's some white nonense in this book too. nancy holder explain your cunt self on why you're making a black girl kiss an old white fart nearly twice her age? What the fuck is this nonense? Check yourself into a nursing home, stop afflicting the rest of us with your bullshit. Freak.

It took about an hour to read. Very unchallenging, entertaining, mild amusement. The book equivalent of a potato chip serving. Not a bad thing. If you like it, you like it.

Fave stories.  Hooves And The Hovel Of Abdel Jameela,  The Children Of The Shark God.


◆ Hooves And The Hovel Of Abdel Jameela ~ By Saladin Ahmed

minor homophobia, whorephobic language, 
medium drug use, 
major body horror, medical content, 

◆ The Children Of The Shark God ~ By Peter S. Beagle
minor ableist c slur 
medium injuries , pregnancy, misogyny, parental death, 

▪ “He is fully aware that he should never have taken a human wife, created a human family in the human world. And he knows also, as he was never meant to know, that when your mother dies—as she will—when you and your brother in time die, his heart will break. No god is supposed to know such a thing; they are simply not equipped to deal with it.

▪ “Why would any god ever choose to sire sons and daughters with a mortal woman? Half-divine, yet we die—half-supreme, yet we are vulnerable, breakable—half-perfect, still we are forever crippled by our human hearts. What cruelty could compel an immortal to desire such unnatural children?”


◆ Even Hand ~ By Jim Butcher

no cws not interested in this series 

◆ Death Warmed Over ~ By Rachel Caine
minor confinement, 
medium torture, war, murder, blood, death, serial killers, misogyny, murder, minor torture, child death, body horror, gun violence, police, 

◆ Red Run ~ By Kami Garcia
minor death, gore, vomit, alcohol use, mental illness, drugs hard drugs, 
medium grief, gore, violence, 
major violence, murder, 

◆ Pale Rider ~ By Nancy Holder

major gun violence, animal death, dogs, 

▪ She heard the disappointment in his voice. “But Alex, something was going on with your family. They did something bad. And maybe we’re here to fix (idk i dont likw how the balck family didnsmt bad and the white germans is scolding this young vlack girl who he kid kidnappes kinda didnt 

▪ And she didn’t know why—maybe because he was afraid—but she put her arms around him. His body was very solid. He was staring out the window; now he gave her his attention. She raised on her tiptoes and brushed his lips with hers. Cautiously, he kissed her back. Just the one kiss, chaste, and then she unloosened her arms.


EWWWWW SHES A FUCKING CHILD 

no more cws im done with disgusting crackers  fuck you nancy

◆ Frost Child ~ By Gillian Philip

“This prequel to Gillian Philip’s acclaimed novel Firebrand tells how Seth’s parents Griogair and Lilith met - and the first deadly consequences “

no cws. i m not interested in this advert for a nother full book series.

◆ South ~ By Gillian Philip
minor death, blood, gore, 
medium pregnancy, medical content, alcoholism, 

◆ A Knot Of Toads ~ By Jane Yolen
minor alcohol , torture, misogyny, 
major religion, parental death, animal cruelty , grief, 

◆ The Adventures Of Lightning Merriemouse-Jones ~ By Nancy & Belle Holder
minor incest?, death, murder, 

incomplete c w tags. It's Dracula by bram stoker but with mice. Not my thing.

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major animal cruelty, animal death, body horror, dogs, grief, gun violence, medical content, murder, parental death, religion, violence

medium alcoholism, blood, body horror, child death, death, drug use, gore, grief, gun violence, injuries, medical content, misogyny, murder, parental death, police, pregnancy, serial killers, torture, violence, war

minor ableist c slur, alcohol, alcohol use, blood, confinement, death, drugs hard drugs, gore, homophobia, incest?, mental illness, misogyny, murder, torture, vomit, whorephobic language , 


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