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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? No

5.0

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

Twisted by Emily McIntire

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell

adventurous 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? No

4.25

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Outdrawn by Deanna Grey
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.

There are two different narrators, one for each POV, and one of them kept doing this gruff voice when the other MC was speaking, even though the narrator for that MC didn’t have a gruff voice at all. It felt like the two narrators didn’t really communicate about how to do each others voices, which kind of threw me off. I’d really like to read the digital version of this, the audio narrator was just bad 🥲