sapphaos's reviews
147 reviews

Les sept soeurs by Lucinda Riley

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

easy to read, some characters are a bit too one dimensional for the few times they appear

L'écho du doute by Rebecca Frayn

mysterious medium-paced

2.5

The way the main characters think of society at the start is really weird and cliché, and the end makes no sense, why make it mysterious like that?

If he's really the son, would he run away?

Une mer si froide by Linda Huber

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Les Steenfort, maîtres de l'orge: roman by Jean Van Hamme

emotional medium-paced

4.0

Ito Junji: Best Of Best Short Story Collection by Junji Ito

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Avis de tempête by Serge Brussolo

dark tense medium-paced

3.5

L'âme du fusil by Elsa Marpeau

dark tense medium-paced

2.0

Point de vue d'un chasseur, impossible de savoir si le livre essaye d'avoir un propos sur la masculinité toxique dans ce milieu ou pas parce qu'il ne va nulle part et ne se prononce qu'à moitié. 
Le personnage principale est un macho aui vit dans un milieu de machos, mais attention, il est un peu plus gentil que les autres, alors ça va. Ça rend le propos du livre extrêmement confus. 

Pareil, la possible histoire d'homosexualité ne va pas jusqu'au bout et rend donc le propos creux. 
J'ai aussi été horrifiée par le passage sur la soit disant prostituée "folle" qui en fait n'a pas les capacités pour consentir et se fait donc violer mais attention elle est payée donc ça va?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Homophobia, and Rape

L'arbre du mal by Tana French

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I really liked this book. A lot of people said the main mystery took too long to start, but to me it's not the center of the story, it's how the main character goes from a privileged insufferable brat to someone that doesn't have that, and he has to learn to live with that and the fact that people around him didn't have as much luck and privilege. 

Zelda : Le jardin et le monde by Victor Moisan

informative medium-paced

4.0

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Great concept and story, and has a lot of lore that was under utilised in my opinion. 

A lot of things could have been explained in more details because the plot is almost Black Mirror-esque but the main character never reacts to how fucked up what he's living through is.

It's heavily implied he has been stuck in a loop for a a few decades and he's not even shocked by that revelation, come on.

The main part which is the mystery was great and I liked the back and forth in the timeline which kept things more interesting.

As others said, it would have been better without the fatphobia and the rapey character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia