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299 reviews

dark tense fast-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No

3.0

Quick and easy. These kind of remind me of extremely graphic grown up Goosebumps stories. I do like how the stories are broken up between the past, present, and inner thoughts of the narrator.

I’ll probably burn through the rest of these when I need some horror escapism.

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Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

Is This Autism?: A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else by Donna A. Henderson, Sarah C. Wayland, Jamell White

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informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

2.5

GOD I struggle with this series!!!

The world, the war, the political intrigue and mystery are all great and keep dragging me in but I’m so tired of the main characters. Every conversation felt like being privy to a middle school friend’s MySpace fight with her Hottopic assistant manager boyfriend.

Xaden constantly calling her Violence in the middle of serious situations and her just getting over the fact that she hates the nickname was hard to not laugh through. His paragraph long comments about how bad he wants to “peel the pants off of her amazing ass and fu…” were hard truly abysmal.

Xaden has always been a 15 year emo boy but Violet sinking into being completely oblivious - how many times does she need to realize Riorson HOUSE is XADEN’s HOUSE - was frustrating. Her weird tiffs with a certain griffon rider were embarrassing. Rhiannon please shake the shit outta your girl.

The BEST parts of this book are getting so much more of the world outside of Basgiath. Meeting other riders, learning about the how the cultures differ and the strengths and weaknesses of both forces are is what I came for! I wanted to learn more about the dragons and love the expansion on how their magic works! There’s not enough of the dragons!!! The battle scenes are both great to read and listen to - I really enjoy how Yarros writes combat!

I wish this was a book through literally anybody else’s eyes or even better in the third person. I want to love this world but can’t when I have to read 3 paragraphs about how hot some fucking dude who can’t communicate is in her mind before she lets me know what’s going on in the forever war they’ve been fighting. It’s a CW show on paper - it will be a joy to talk about this in 10 years the way we do Twilight now.

The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 12 by Itsuki Nanao, Natsu Hyuuga

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced