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178 reviews

The Bride of the Blue Wind by Victoria Goddard

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Pregnancy

Minor: Confinement, Rape

A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Terec and the Wild by Victoria Goddard

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.0

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

adventurous 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A campy Game of Thrones isekai. Interesting interactions with a familiar narrative that moves in perfectly predictable and unexpected ways.

Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

Phenomenal, but do not mess around with the content warnings. Can't wait to talk to my therapist about this.

Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt

challenging dark informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

I've never read something so simultaneously academic and ferociously metal. It's great to see someone with some new takes on modern discourse that seems to have been langouring in directionless arguments.

A Rotten Girl by J. Ursula Topaz

dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

A hilarious and vicious satire of the writing industry, fujoshi, and being a trans woman. Absolute trainwreck of a character that manages to be fun enough that I didn't mind the cringe.

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

I still have no idea what's going on. It's great.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Startling clarity even being 15 years old. The more things change the more things stay the same.

The Hades Calculus by Maria Ying

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

Absolutely buck wild. Visceral inmany senses of the word. Amazing work and I'm excited to check out Ying's other work.