observerspotter's reviews
168 reviews

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

The Rose and the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

3.5

The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

This book is nearly perfect, but please dear god just let them say fuck. If I could Find and Replace every scrum or scrumming for fuck and fucking I'd give this another five stars

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The Dark Between The Trees by Fiona Barnett

dark mysterious 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? No

2.5

I'm as unsure how to describe this book as the author was about how to finish it. The atmosphere is set up very well, with a spooky forest, the two groups in two different time periods, and an unknowable entity stalking through the forest.

Could it have been a tense Predator-style hunt? Maybe. Could it have been a ghost or a witch or a revenant? Maybe
Could it have been a metaphor for the unknown, facing your fears and what it means to chase your dreams as far as they can take you? Maybe.

I'm not sure what it was, and maybe that was the point. There is no answer, there is no conclusion, stuff just kind of stops happening? There are far too many names in the past perspective, so much so that I'm not entirely sure who is who aside from the leader. At no point did I remember who it was from the past that had survived to tell the stories the people in the present were investigating, and it turns out a handful of pages from the end of the book that it was the people that ran away right at the start? 

For a very short book, it was very easy to forget what had happened from chapter to chapter. Nothing particularly was memorable except vibes, and the vibes were bland.

I would recommend if that's what you're going for, and I can also state that I am new to horror books, but I cannot say that I would reread this one.

A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

dark emotional mysterious fast-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

3.0