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Jade City by Fonda Lee

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tense 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? Yes

5.0

This really does live up to the hype. It's tense while managing to take its time. It has a complex, rich world that feels completely lived in, populated by fully realized characters I was invested in the moment I started reading about them.
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Jude Ellison S. Doyle

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challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

The book's main arguments gave me a lot to chew on and made me realize that I need to re-examine the ways I view and enjoy media and its many portrayals of women, especially since I enjoy horror and horror-related and adjacent entertainment. I'm reminded that as much as l would like to see myself as progressive, there is, and probably will always be, certain embedded mental frameworks and beliefs that I need to constantly re-evaluate because I'm still very much within a system that actively seeks to subjugate women.
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