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56 reviews

Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram

funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing, Racism, Death of parent

Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Mental illness, Self harm, Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault, Abandonment

An Unexpected Kind of Love by Hayden Stone

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol

Moderate: Outing, Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment

The Wingman by A. Poland

funny hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Car accident

Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

Jay's Gay Agenda by Jason June

lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol

Minor: Cursing

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith is a a creepy, fever dream of a novel about two young women who go missing decades apart, both are fearless and lost. And they will both have their revenge.

Right off the bat – this book is like nothing I’ve read before and in all honestly I don’t know how to describe the experience of reading it. There’s magical realism, ghosts, two headed serpents and so much more that will have you on the edge of your seat while reading.

For the most part we’re trying to piece together Winnie’s story as we learn of her disappearance in the first chapter. There are a handful of intertwined timelines that all drop breadcrumbs of information, building to build a complex puzzle of anguish and horror set over several decades.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Alcohol

The Yuckiest Lunch Box by Debbie Min

hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

Fence #4 by C.S. Pacat

5.0