redus_reuse_recycle's Reviews (215)

Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White

3.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense 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: Yes

Benji is the epitome of that “Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just wanna go apeshit?” And I love that for him. I hope he and Nick kiss forever and ever.

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Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden

5.0

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Oh this is so terribly sweet.

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Fat Ham

James Ijames

3.0

funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

*to the tune of Creep by Radiohead* I’m a steak…/I’m a rib-bone…/What the hell am I chewing here??

The Wicker King

K. Ancrum

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Love wins actually. ESPECIALLY for toxic codependent gay bitches.

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D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding

Chencia C. Higgins

2.0

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: Complicated

Great if you love books with absolutely no conflict.

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor

4.0

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

All books should begin with the protagonist having lesbian sex with a hot butch musician.

(Gets a four because the story kind of drops momentum once Paul goes to Cali.)

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

Alison Bechdel

5.0

funny informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A book that I put off finishing for months because I was so sad at the idea of saying goodbye.

(Not to get sappy but) this book definitely helped shape and form my butch identity and made me feel a little less alone. (Much to the fear of the author in the intro).

I’m not religious but this book is like The Bible to me. Go dykes!

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The Pisces

Melissa Broder

1.0

challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really feel like this book had some interesting ideas and some really compelling sections

(namely the chunk near the end when she’s contemplating suicide via having Theo drown her)

but the main character was so annoying that I literally could not enjoy it.

Also I think Lucy would be a terf (too much “divine feminine” crap from her)

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