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Teddy by Emmy Sanders

4.0

Little Bird Lost by Jessie Walker

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

Not rating this one. I read it but it was a struggle for sure. Dark, twisted, mindfuck of a book that I would have stopped reading if it had been a standalone.

Every Breath After by Jessie Walker

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Well now that my heart has been ripped out of my body, what am I going to do?? This book wrecked me. I set it down and walked away so many times. I wanted to throttle and hug the shit out of these characters simultaneously.

The Potion Gardener by Arden Powell

3.5

Bloom by N.R. Walker

funny medium-paced

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

4.0

Where Love Grows by Jay Northcote

medium-paced

4.0

Evolved by N.R. Walker

emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

Mortal Skin by Lily Mayne

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

5.0

How To Bare Your Neck & Save A Wreck by D.N. Bryn

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I loved delving back into the Guide for Dating Vampires world. Apparently, my favorite kind of vampires are insecure disasters 🩸❤️ Shane and Andres were so sweet and I loved how their relationship evolved. 

There are also some really meaningful statements in there that I connect to…

“But sometimes I also think the person I am might be someone who not very many people actually like, so I kind of know what you mean. Like, who I’m putting out in casual settings isn’t the person underneath it all, and while that’s okay and normal, it’s left that unseen me within to languish. Is the person we are beneath the layers of formality real if no one gets to know them?”

“Everyone has always known there was something queer about me, but it’s taken me a long time to actually tell my family about my nonbinary gender…I think they don’t really know me at all, anymore, and it feels safer that way. Some people aren’t worthy of certain parts of you, and that doesn’t make you any less yourself.”