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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn

4.5

adventurous dark 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

4.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

3.75

dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Slavery, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent

Lone Women

Victor LaValle

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Gore, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Veniss Underground

Jeff VanderMeer

4.75

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood

Harold and Maude

Colin Higgins

5.0

adventurous dark funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide

Stolen Butterfly: Gabriel Hawke Novel

Paty Jager

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Violence, Gaslighting

When No One Is Watching

Alyssa Cole

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Twists and turns with laughs to lighten the suspense. Very good storyline and ending that satisfied. Mostly thriller with a little real world horror for extra flavor. Well written, looking forward to finding more AC books! (Both read and listened on audiobook, the narrators for the audiobook did a fantastic job.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Colonisation

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Elder abuse

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1.0

dark tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting

These Women

Ivy Pochoda

DID NOT FINISH: 28%