saltypandas's Reviews (50)

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama

3.5

hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

Michael Brooks

4.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

4.0

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

4.0

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

5.0

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

Rogues

Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin

4.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

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*This review is only for Gillian Flynn and George R. R. Martin's stories.*

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Sandra Brown

2.0

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

5.0

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

3.0