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The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Tananarive Due does it again ✨️
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen

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dark lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones

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dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

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

2.0

I'm too gay to be the target audience for this 
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

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

4.0

A lot of Good For Her moments, but there was something very....white....about it
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Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams

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challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Even the few stories that weren't really my cup of tea were so good 
Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
So misogynistic and gross. The fiction-like writing is weird and you have no idea how much of it is real and the author writes in third person omniscient - but he's clearly just assuming how the victims felt... Feels like this guy just wanted to write a fiction story but wasn't creative enough so he disrespected very REAL people by writing this garbage. Fastest I've ever DNF'd a book.
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

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adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

I just wish it was longer (some stuff felt underdeveloped) and just slightly more gay 
A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper

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challenging dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I think I could have liked where the story ultimately ended up, but there was something just too amorphous about the writing that both makes sense to the story, but is incredibly hard to conceptualize. There were moments I enjoyed that propelled me through the book, but overall it was not for me. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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dark sad medium-paced

4.25