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Macunaíma: O Herói Sem Nenhum Caráter by Mário de Andrade
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Muito complexo, não entendi; confuso e parado
Homens pretos (não) choram by Stefano Volp
achei desnecessário a morte do Russo
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
~ This audiobook was provided by NetGalley in exchange of an honest review ~
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen is a YA book that deals with heavy topics such as islamophobia, racism, anxiety and cyber hate. It's about finding people like you, somewhere where you can see yourself in, a community. Three black muslim seniors in high school and the last year before everything changes. But things changes faster than they expected.
❇ Three point of views with different narrators each;
❇ This book deals with really especific but extremely realistic and relatable situations such as:
- Being the (one of the) only black girl(s) in a certain place and be mistaken for them
-Having your family invalidate what you want to work (art, history, etc) and wanting you to do a 'more realistic' kind of job
❇ the thing where people have a racist/homophobic phase and then years later change but not knowing how people where hurt because of them and wanting to just brush it off!!!!!!;
❇ the side romance in the right dose; annoying-guy-I-know to friends to lovers and of course slow burn!!!! AND one of the protagonists already are in a relationship so there's this kind of second chance romance too??;
❇Not to mention, the love not only in a romantical way, familial love and friendship are a central point of this book;
❇ different familly backgrounds;
❇ development of the main characters AND the side characters;
❇ ONE. ONLY. thing I didn't like: strangely enough there weren't as many scenes with the three of them as I'd like.
❇ Quotes:
"Sadness fades fast because I'm no longer capable of being truly shocked. The only. residue? left behind is anger, quietly shimmering because if it boils and spills out of me, I'm afraid of what would happen."
"You truly assumed that the world would heal and stay healed while spinning constantly. A spinning driven parts by half-truths and rumors that gets *rikken*(idk what is the real word) as facts"
"Reading is the definition of adventure in my mind, who knows what worlds those readers are going to get sucked into? And who knows who they'll be after they turn the final page? Reading is its own form of magic"
"I know what is like to feel unseen and unheard, to read books or watch shows and not see yourself represented or to see yourself misrepresented in them."
"Everyone deserves to see themselves represented as the protagonist"
"You don't have to prove anyone right and you don't have to prove anyone wrong, you only have to be you for you."
"It was good to hear you laugh" My traitor's heart flutters.
"I have to keep speaking so that when other young muslins womem come after me and they speak, their voices don't only echo in isolation, but their voices and their words move mountains, create waterfalls, mend hearts and makes this world closer to what it can be"
"I'm not perfect but I'm growing and right now that's enough"
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen is a YA book that deals with heavy topics such as islamophobia, racism, anxiety and cyber hate. It's about finding people like you, somewhere where you can see yourself in, a community. Three black muslim seniors in high school and the last year before everything changes. But things changes faster than they expected.
❇ Three point of views with different narrators each;
❇ This book deals with really especific but extremely realistic and relatable situations such as:
- Being the (one of the) only black girl(s) in a certain place and be mistaken for them
-Having your family invalidate what you want to work (art, history, etc) and wanting you to do a 'more realistic' kind of job
❇ the thing where people have a racist/homophobic phase and then years later change but not knowing how people where hurt because of them and wanting to just brush it off!!!!!!;
❇ the side romance in the right dose; annoying-guy-I-know to friends to lovers and of course slow burn!!!! AND one of the protagonists already are in a relationship so there's this kind of second chance romance too??;
❇Not to mention, the love not only in a romantical way, familial love and friendship are a central point of this book;
❇ different familly backgrounds;
❇ development of the main characters AND the side characters;
❇ ONE. ONLY. thing I didn't like: strangely enough there weren't as many scenes with the three of them as I'd like.
❇ Quotes:
"Sadness fades fast because I'm no longer capable of being truly shocked. The only. residue? left behind is anger, quietly shimmering because if it boils and spills out of me, I'm afraid of what would happen."
"You truly assumed that the world would heal and stay healed while spinning constantly. A spinning driven parts by half-truths and rumors that gets *rikken*(idk what is the real word) as facts"
"Reading is the definition of adventure in my mind, who knows what worlds those readers are going to get sucked into? And who knows who they'll be after they turn the final page? Reading is its own form of magic"
"I know what is like to feel unseen and unheard, to read books or watch shows and not see yourself represented or to see yourself misrepresented in them."
"Everyone deserves to see themselves represented as the protagonist"
"You don't have to prove anyone right and you don't have to prove anyone wrong, you only have to be you for you."
"It was good to hear you laugh" My traitor's heart flutters.
"I have to keep speaking so that when other young muslins womem come after me and they speak, their voices don't only echo in isolation, but their voices and their words move mountains, create waterfalls, mend hearts and makes this world closer to what it can be"
"I'm not perfect but I'm growing and right now that's enough"
Content Warnings
Graphic: Islamophobia
Moderate: Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
~ This audiobook was provided by NetGalley in exchange of an honest review ~
❇ I LOVE LOVE LOVE BOOKS WITH SOME KIND OF DEADLINE ON IT!!;
❇ strong women;
❇ jewish and muslim rep/MCs;
❇ sapphic;
❇ At first the fact that the author narrated the audiobook made me skeptical but the more I listened to it, the more I feel in love with it (and Aminah Mae Safi's voice- please);
❇ my beautiful blonde golden retriever jock;
I can confidently say that I've already found a new favorite author this year!
* The karaoke scene gave me Red White and Royal Blue flashbacks and I live for it;
* I ALWAYS wanted a helix piercing so this book just made it all worse;
❇Quotes:
"Sana knew she would be rebuffed, she asked anyway. She was a one-woman masochism parade today"
-
"Rachel had just sacrificed her dignity on the alter of cinematic production"
-
"God, did beautiful people annoy Rachel"
-
"Also she's really small, I feel like small people are really powerful"
"Says the guy who looks like he could smash a watermelon between his two bare hands"
"But I've gotta duck to go into buildings and I could never sneak around anywhere, I'm too tall"
"What a difficult life you must have had"
-
"For Rachel that had always been something outwardly about stepping onto a set, seeing all the props, and the set pieces and the camera equipament and thinking: I'm the god of this world"
-
"Nothing like a conversation with Sana Khan to throw off the rhythm of her entire life"
-
"It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up in somebody else's. It's better to have something you know it's yours, rather than what everyone tells you that you should want"
-
"And now everywhere Sana touched was going up in flames like a storehouse of old *Sally oid*( I'm not sure how It's written) did before the flick of a single match. Arson had never been so wonderful, so dizzying"
-
"Sana laughed. God, that laugh. Rachel could listen to it forever and probably still not get tired of the sound"
-
"And logically, Sana knew she was in a room full of strangers singing a serenade to another girl, knew she was declaring herself in a big, public way, but she kept on singing, kept on staring at Rachel because right now they were the only two people who mattered, the only two people in the room. The only two people in the world. The only two lovers left alive"
-
"The nicest thing about life - and not the movies. Is that there's no curtains, no 'The End'. You can always write your own story, you can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense or go in a straight line it happens, you make it happen and while you don't get a do-over, if you're still alive and still kicking you do still have time ahead of you"
-
"Sana Khan, you are awfully full of yourself"
"I know" Sanah took a step closer "I promise not to start a war if that helps"
"I can't say I blame you if you did" Rachel reached out and let her fingers throught Sana's ponytail. "Then, what do you want?"
Sana's breaths were coming rapidly but with a lightness that she never experienced before, there was no lingering awful tension, just hope grinding trought her, just the sensation that the best have yet to come "I want you to tell me how you really feel"
"Oh" said Sana "That's easy, I love you"
❇ I LOVE LOVE LOVE BOOKS WITH SOME KIND OF DEADLINE ON IT!!;
❇ strong women;
❇ jewish and muslim rep/MCs;
❇ sapphic;
❇ At first the fact that the author narrated the audiobook made me skeptical but the more I listened to it, the more I feel in love with it (and Aminah Mae Safi's voice- please);
❇ my beautiful blonde golden retriever jock;
I can confidently say that I've already found a new favorite author this year!
* I ALWAYS wanted a helix piercing so this book just made it all worse;
❇Quotes:
"Sana knew she would be rebuffed, she asked anyway. She was a one-woman masochism parade today"
-
"Rachel had just sacrificed her dignity on the alter of cinematic production"
-
"God, did beautiful people annoy Rachel"
-
"Also she's really small, I feel like small people are really powerful"
"Says the guy who looks like he could smash a watermelon between his two bare hands"
"But I've gotta duck to go into buildings and I could never sneak around anywhere, I'm too tall"
"What a difficult life you must have had"
-
"For Rachel that had always been something outwardly about stepping onto a set, seeing all the props, and the set pieces and the camera equipament and thinking: I'm the god of this world"
-
"Nothing like a conversation with Sana Khan to throw off the rhythm of her entire life"
-
"It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up in somebody else's. It's better to have something you know it's yours, rather than what everyone tells you that you should want"
-
"And now everywhere Sana touched was going up in flames like a storehouse of old *Sally oid*( I'm not sure how It's written) did before the flick of a single match. Arson had never been so wonderful, so dizzying"
-
"Sana laughed. God, that laugh. Rachel could listen to it forever and probably still not get tired of the sound"
-
"And logically, Sana knew she was in a room full of strangers singing a serenade to another girl, knew she was declaring herself in a big, public way, but she kept on singing, kept on staring at Rachel because right now they were the only two people who mattered, the only two people in the room. The only two people in the world. The only two lovers left alive"
-
"The nicest thing about life - and not the movies. Is that there's no curtains, no 'The End'. You can always write your own story, you can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense or go in a straight line it happens, you make it happen and while you don't get a do-over, if you're still alive and still kicking you do still have time ahead of you"
-
"Sana Khan, you are awfully full of yourself"
"I know" Sanah took a step closer "I promise not to start a war if that helps"
"I can't say I blame you if you did" Rachel reached out and let her fingers throught Sana's ponytail. "Then, what do you want?"
Sana's breaths were coming rapidly but with a lightness that she never experienced before, there was no lingering awful tension, just hope grinding trought her, just the sensation that the best have yet to come "I want you to tell me how you really feel"
"Oh" said Sana "That's easy, I love you"
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
"It's easy to have friends if you let people laugh at you. I'm going to have a lot of friends where I go."
❇ It's incredible how the writing it's done in a way we can gradually see Charlie changing. That was a fundamental touch following the main plot;
-
❇ The audiobook (narrated by Jeff Woodman) was perfect, you could see the difference in the writing and FEEL them through his voice;
-
❇ One thing that pushed me back pushed was the ableism in this book; Charlie's own parents were terrible to him. His mother in denial that his son wasn't "normal", his father being neglectful and the doctors themselves were terrible too.;
-
❇ In approximately 2/3 of the book it was SO tiring and monotonous that I had to stop but mostly it was really well done, the beginning and the end;
-
Basically this books finished me and brought me so much pain just by thinking about it. It felt like something that could really happen. On a less serious note: there's an overdose of white people in it (the kind of think you expect for a book written in 1959).
❇ The parallels Charlie makes between what's happening in his life and his memories of his past, not to mention the dreams and the reality of them. art.;
-
❇ It's truly devastating to see he navigate his life with open eyes and realize how people around him who he before hold dearly were actually AWFUL;
-
❇ It's unclear but it felt like all the trauma he went through made him forgot most of his childhood and even his parents names and faces. Along with the memories that after the surgery reappear in his head.
-
❇ It made me so sad to see Charlie growing and dismissing what before was his goals and becoming someone else entirely-
-
❇ Guorino is a freaking scam want money and gave unnecessary trauma from unknowing people
-
❇ It felt so realistic (?) the whole ideia of doing-a-surgery-to-be-smart coming from ✨trauma✨
-
❇ I have SO MANY problems with his mom, for starters: she shouldn't even have kids, she just started treating her kid *even worse* when she found out she could have other children without mental disorders and before that she was terrible to him, always talking shit about him in the very room he was in and then pretending he wasn't listening and if he were that wouldn't matter too because 'he wouldn't understand anyway'
-
❇ his sister's development WAS FANTASTIC but I was a little pissed because we all knew her as terrible for later she actually grow into a proper person?
-
❇ His regression was so hard to read, that hurt so much, working at the bakery again and the bullying again, the workers at the bakery being his "friends" again after he became like he was before-
- Quotes:
"Charlie, you amaze me. In some ways you're so advance and yet, when it comes to making a decision you're still a child. I can't decide for you, Charlie. The answer can't be found in books or be solved by bringing it to other people, not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you, feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself."
"There is no question about it now. I'm in love. "
"It's easy to have friends if you let people laugh at you. I'm going to have a lot of friends where I go.
PS: please if you get a chance put some flowers on Algernon's grave in the backyard"
"If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me Im glad I got
a second chanse to be smart becaus I lerned a lot of things that I never even
new were in this world and Im grateful that I saw it all for a litte! bit."
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
"It's easy to have friends if you let people laugh at you. I'm going to have a lot of friends where I go."
❇ It's incredible how the writing it's done in a way we can gradually see Charlie changing. That was a fundamental touch following the main plot;
-
❇ The audiobook (narrated by Jeff Woodman) was perfect, you could see the difference in the writing and FEEL them through his voice;
-
❇ One thing that pushed me back pushed was the ableism in this book; Charlie's own parents were terrible to him. His mother in denial that his son wasn't "normal", his father being neglectful and the doctors themselves were terrible too.;
-
❇ In approximately 2/3 of the book it was SO tiring and monotonous that I had to stop but mostly it was really well done, the beginning and the end;
-
Basically this books finished me and brought me so much pain just by thinking about it. It felt like something that could really happen. On a less serious note: there's an overdose of white people in it (the kind of think you expect for a book written in 1959).
❇ The parallels Charlie makes between what's happening in his life and his memories of his past, not to mention the dreams and the reality of them. art.;
-
❇ It's truly devastating to see he navigate his life with open eyes and realize how people around him who he before hold dearly were actually AWFUL;
-
❇ It's unclear but it felt like all the trauma he went through made him forgot most of his childhood and even his parents names and faces. Along with the memories that after the surgery reappear in his head.
-
❇ It made me so sad to see Charlie growing and dismissing what before was his goals and becoming someone else entirely-
-
❇ Guorino is a freaking scam want money and gave unnecessary trauma from unknowing people
-
❇ It felt so realistic (?) the whole ideia of doing-a-surgery-to-be-smart coming from ✨trauma✨
-
❇ I have SO MANY problems with his mom, for starters: she shouldn't even have kids, she just started treating her kid *even worse* when she found out she could have other children without mental disorders and before that she was terrible to him, always talking shit about him in the very room he was in and then pretending he wasn't listening and if he were that wouldn't matter too because 'he wouldn't understand anyway'
-
❇ his sister's development WAS FANTASTIC but I was a little pissed because we all knew her as terrible for later she actually grow into a proper person?
-
❇ His regression was so hard to read, that hurt so much, working at the bakery again and the bullying again, the workers at the bakery being his "friends" again after he became like he was before-
- Quotes:
"Charlie, you amaze me. In some ways you're so advance and yet, when it comes to making a decision you're still a child. I can't decide for you, Charlie. The answer can't be found in books or be solved by bringing it to other people, not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you, feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself."
"There is no question about it now. I'm in love. "
"It's easy to have friends if you let people laugh at you. I'm going to have a lot of friends where I go.
PS: please if you get a chance put some flowers on Algernon's grave in the backyard"
"If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me Im glad I got
a second chanse to be smart becaus I lerned a lot of things that I never even
new were in this world and Im grateful that I saw it all for a litte! bit."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Bullying, Ableism, and Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism and Medical trauma
Quando o Sol voltar by Olívia Pilar
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Não li a sinopse e talvez isso foi um erro pq teve muito mais politica do que esperava (achava que a história seria de dor e separação como foi mas não disso)
Muito real e chega a dor ao mesmo tempo que o final enche o coração com esperança.
❇Quotes:
"Tudo vai ficar bem. As coisas vão melhorar. Isso é só uma tempestade, logo ela passa e a gente vê o sol de novo."
"Nosso sol realmente tinha voltado e ele brilhava mais forte do que nunca."
Muito real e chega a dor ao mesmo tempo que o final enche o coração com esperança.
❇Quotes:
"Tudo vai ficar bem. As coisas vão melhorar. Isso é só uma tempestade, logo ela passa e a gente vê o sol de novo."
"Nosso sol realmente tinha voltado e ele brilhava mais forte do que nunca."
The Moonstone Girls by Brooke Skipstone
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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? It's complicated
3.5
~ This e-ARC was provided by NetGalley in exchange of an honest review ~
• The cover of 'The Moonstone Girls' makes it seem like a cute romance which it (partly) is but it also deals deeply with homophobia, war and suicide to name its main themes.
- bad points
• This book has a huge problem regarding representation; while both protagonists are gay, they are also white. And not only them but I could reccord 3 characters who are not white and just because they are walking stereotypes.
A mexican teenage boy and twins black women. The boy keeps randomly saying spanish words - so we can never forget he's spanish, I guess?. And the twins are the loud-sassy-black-friend trope we know and hate.
And to make things worse: all of them experience racism in the book;
• I was loving it until 2/3 of the book but when it came to the last 20% it all was ruined. The main romance was developed way too quickly, the main plot had little time to expand. It felt like the author just forgot that this was supposed to be important, not rushed scenes and time skipping;
• All the making-babies-part at the end (no, I'm not talking about sex) along with a scene where the characters compare football with rape could be excluded from this book, it were short but really uncomfortable and unnecessary.
+ good points
• I absolutely love the fact that the author made a playlist with all the mentioned songs in the book;
• Right from the beginning if someone had told me it was nonfiction, I would've believe it. It gave me what I see people talk about in 'Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" (wich I haven't read yet). Incredibly realistic. Until the very end;
• I love how we get the perspective of Tracy's mom, It's fascinating when we can learn about the parent's history life and have them be more than just a background character;
• The songs Tracy wrote were an beautiful addiction to the book;
• That was the first in a long time since I've cried with a book (twice!);
• The plot told in the synopsis talks a while to actually happen but there's so many interesting things that occurs before that, which makes you just enjoy the way to that point.
• There's a scene involving a woman/Tracy and a bathroom, and the author makes it seem all philosophical and all but let me tell you: if I enter in a bathroom and there's someone naked I WOULD ABSOLUTELY START SCREAMING. There is no way in hell I would act the same way as Tracy nor as this woman did. Not to mention it was gross (not ppl being naked but the not actually having a bath part);
-
• I feel like sometimes the author goes overboard in the feminist subject as to force things that doesn't necessarily are related to it in the narrative (example: the-being-naked-in-front-of-anyone-thing, which feels a lot like 'my body my choice' but that narrative where you say that for minors and they show revealing pictures thinking it's "empowerment");
-
• Tracy's obssesion with Jackie is SO WEIRD, she just starts "liking" her over a picture and fantasizing about her, like girl you didn't even talk to her once;
-
• The resolution at the end with Tracy and her father was terrible, we have the entire book of him being a terrible person to everyone, and then at the very end when he's extremely unwell and dying he gets all good and a perfect father and then dies- like ??? No, I don't want that at all, you don't get a pass for what you did and I do believe people can change but that in this book just felt off.
• The cover of 'The Moonstone Girls' makes it seem like a cute romance which it (partly) is but it also deals deeply with homophobia, war and suicide to name its main themes.
- bad points
• This book has a huge problem regarding representation; while both protagonists are gay, they are also white. And not only them but I could reccord 3 characters who are not white and just because they are walking stereotypes.
A mexican teenage boy and twins black women. The boy keeps randomly saying spanish words - so we can never forget he's spanish, I guess?. And the twins are the loud-sassy-black-friend trope we know and hate.
And to make things worse: all of them experience racism in the book;
• I was loving it until 2/3 of the book but when it came to the last 20% it all was ruined. The main romance was developed way too quickly, the main plot had little time to expand. It felt like the author just forgot that this was supposed to be important, not rushed scenes and time skipping;
• All the making-babies-part at the end (no, I'm not talking about sex) along with a scene where the characters compare football with rape could be excluded from this book, it were short but really uncomfortable and unnecessary.
+ good points
• I absolutely love the fact that the author made a playlist with all the mentioned songs in the book;
• Right from the beginning if someone had told me it was nonfiction, I would've believe it. It gave me what I see people talk about in 'Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" (wich I haven't read yet). Incredibly realistic. Until the very end;
• I love how we get the perspective of Tracy's mom, It's fascinating when we can learn about the parent's history life and have them be more than just a background character;
• The songs Tracy wrote were an beautiful addiction to the book;
• That was the first in a long time since I've cried with a book (twice!);
• The plot told in the synopsis talks a while to actually happen but there's so many interesting things that occurs before that, which makes you just enjoy the way to that point.
-
• I feel like sometimes the author goes overboard in the feminist subject as to force things that doesn't necessarily are related to it in the narrative (example: the-being-naked-in-front-of-anyone-thing, which feels a lot like 'my body my choice' but that narrative where you say that for minors and they show revealing pictures thinking it's "empowerment");
-
• Tracy's obssesion with Jackie is SO WEIRD, she just starts "liking" her over a picture and fantasizing about her, like girl you didn't even talk to her once;
-
• The resolution at the end with Tracy and her father was terrible, we have the entire book of him being a terrible person to everyone, and then at the very end when he's extremely unwell and dying he gets all good and a perfect father and then dies- like ??? No, I don't want that at all, you don't get a pass for what you did and I do believe people can change but that in this book just felt off.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Death and Racism
Minor: Death of parent
Enfim, capivaras by Luisa Geisler
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- 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
5.0
eu amei demais esse livro
As listas são muito boas pra se aprofundar nos personagens, da pra saber um pouco mais deles sem ficar massivo e de forma objetiva, além de deixar mais dinâmico.
Os vários pontos de vista funcionam muito bem na história.
Um pontos sobre assexualidade e distúrbios alimentares q eu achei super importante.
Incrivel como os personagens não sao 100% bonzinhos também, porque eles são adolescentes e isso deixa muito mais real. Mesmi passando raiva e tendo dificuldade pra decidir se gostava deles ou odiava.
O final me deixou frustrada mas eu gostei muito mais de como foi, é so que eu criei ums expectativa e não aconteceu (se tivesse provavelmente ia perder o sentido então ?)
ENFIM, SÓ LEIAM, TEM UMAS REFERÊNCIAS BRASILEIRAS MUITO BOAS E É UMA LEITURA MUITO BOA.
As listas são muito boas pra se aprofundar nos personagens, da pra saber um pouco mais deles sem ficar massivo e de forma objetiva, além de deixar mais dinâmico.
Os vários pontos de vista funcionam muito bem na história.
Um pontos sobre assexualidade e distúrbios alimentares q eu achei super importante.
Incrivel como os personagens não sao 100% bonzinhos também, porque eles são adolescentes e isso deixa muito mais real. Mesmi passando raiva e tendo dificuldade pra decidir se gostava deles ou odiava.
O final me deixou frustrada mas eu gostei muito mais de como foi, é so que eu criei ums expectativa e não aconteceu (se tivesse provavelmente ia perder o sentido então ?)
ENFIM, SÓ LEIAM, TEM UMAS REFERÊNCIAS BRASILEIRAS MUITO BOAS E É UMA LEITURA MUITO BOA.
Civil Warriors by Tracy A. Ball
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
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? Yes
5.0
"I don’t know how you keep your sanity.”
"I am not sane."
"I’d call him a leprechaun but he’s too tall. He pops in, says something bizarre and then leaves.”
"She wanted to open his chest and climb inside. Only then would she be close enough."
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The romance. The well done timeskip. The siblings relationships. How the characters weren't perfect but still very likable. The well balanced pace. Georgia Anne is now of my favorite characters.
All of that made this reading enjoyable and addicting, even thought it has so many hars themes.
My only problem with it was
I wanted to know more about what happened to William after the meeting with Beatrice and in the end they just appear married, without telling us more than that.
I liked how it turned out but I don't think it needed to have a second love triangle WITH ANOTHER BROTHERS. It felt reused and got a little tiring, thankfully it turned out well.
I had a really good time reading it. And recommend to it to anyone who wants a historical romance with a POC main character."I don’t know how you keep your sanity.”
"I am not sane."
"I’d call him a leprechaun but he’s too tall. He pops in, says something bizarre and then leaves.”
"She wanted to open his chest and climb inside. Only then would she be close enough."
"I am not sane."
"I’d call him a leprechaun but he’s too tall. He pops in, says something bizarre and then leaves.”
"She wanted to open his chest and climb inside. Only then would she be close enough."
- - -
The romance. The well done timeskip. The siblings relationships. How the characters weren't perfect but still very likable. The well balanced pace. Georgia Anne is now of my favorite characters.
All of that made this reading enjoyable and addicting, even thought it has so many hars themes.
My only problem with it was
I liked how it turned out but I don't think it needed to have a second love triangle WITH ANOTHER BROTHERS. It felt reused and got a little tiring, thankfully it turned out well.
I had a really good time reading it. And recommend to it to anyone who wants a historical romance with a POC main character."I don’t know how you keep your sanity.”
"I am not sane."
"I’d call him a leprechaun but he’s too tall. He pops in, says something bizarre and then leaves.”
"She wanted to open his chest and climb inside. Only then would she be close enough."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Rape, and Racism
Moderate: Murder
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
adventurous
dark
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0