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A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

emotional funny inspiring

5.0

I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

emotional funny lighthearted

2.5

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

Turns out I have a limit regarding how many outrageously bad* decisions a protagonist can make before I stop being on their side.

*I don't mean bad as in immoral, which would have been more interesting. I mean bad as in dumb in a way that actively defies the protagonist's own interests. 

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

emotional funny lighthearted

5.0

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

ah yes my favorite trope: forced proximity to "I'm shoving nickels into the long distance payphone to complain about a shitty book I just finished" to lovers

Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, Frederic Raphael, J.M.Q. Davies

dark mysterious reflective

3.5

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

Escape (The Piña Colada Song) (1926 version)

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

is your small town dying? or has it already been killed, and brought back as a corrupted, life-draining creature of the night?

Bull by David Elliott

dark emotional funny

5.0

Catboy by Benji Nate

4.0

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

adventurous challenging mysterious

4.5

La fille dans l'écran by Lou Lubie, Manon Desveaux

emotional funny hopeful inspiring

5.0

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS / CRITIQUES EN UNE PHRASE, PAR AUDREY

True love is when your disparate art styles seamlessly mesh into one image while retaining their individual character

L'amour véritable, c'est quand vos styles artistiques s'harmonisent bien dans une seule image, alors qu'ils conservent ses personnalités individuelles

(mon français est en déclin)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

adventurous mysterious reflective

5.0

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

if no one else got me, I know alliterative bob-and-wheel verse got me