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106 reviews

A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

challenging emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Frustrating. Worth it tho.

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

GOD. WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT LAST 10% OF THE BOOK STEPHANIE?

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

Love that it’s very fairytale-esque. Love the world. Absolutely HATE Eva’s gullibility.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Hella tiring to read the thoughts of a paranoid sociopath. Like, pls take a chill pill.
Poor Tigris.

Me personally I think Lucy Gray survived.

Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I truly enjoyed this book. A fun, sapphic, low-fantasy vampire YA book. What more could a teenaged girl in her 20s ask for.
But. It does feel like the wokeness is a bit forced to your face in this one. Some things really needn’t be clarified that much. We get it. they’re two woke white girls against the world.
And again. Sometimes they’re just SO dumb and it’s just for the plot. Like c’mon. Stop giving supposedly “smart as fuck” characters zero deduction skills or even plain old common sense. Find an actual way to make the plot work.

Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

adventurous emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

The first few chapters confuses the hell out of me. It was just too many characters & too much lore at my face, making it way overwhelming. The first half of the book was somehow both easy and hard to read. There’s something weird or uncanny or unsettling throughout but I just can’t stop reading. Felt like Sisyphus, condemned to keep reading while barely understanding, against my will.
What was definite throughout was that I was scared as shit reading in the darkness of my room. Like most great books, I just couldn’t stop reading pas the 50% mark. Overall, it was a great & fun read.

Me personally, I would run the fuck away when I hear Latin-speaking trees. But they’re just built different ig. Also, Adam, and Noah’s story is just. Why must u hurt me like this. And once again the smartest is just the biggest lil dumb dumb in the end huh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Gun violence

platonic reverse harem, love triangle, smart characters cursed by circumstance

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

What is it with authors nowadays giving us heartbreaks before mending it at the last second? I don’t like it.
Love the rest of the book though. Hate and love both of them. More love to Alex & more hate to Poppy tbh.

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

they done cloned emily. & somehow she’s even worse? ffs.

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

adventurous challenging fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Jameson. Yes.