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147 reviews

Boo by Neil Smith

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Very good read, the twist at the end is given to us by clues throughout the whole book. The whole book make you long for it because you know something is wrong with info given earlier, and it keeps getting weirder. 

The thing that can make this read a bad time is that the protagonist is insufferable because of how much he values his intelligence, but he grows to appreciate other things.

It also makes sense that he was like this at the start given the end twist, he was very much still in the same mental state, hating people, thinking they're all stupid and below him... But heaven makes him like people and realise what he was missing on earth is friends, and being intelligent doesn't do everything.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Cujo by Stephen King

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Starts slow and builds all the stories of the characters to finish in one very tense story. 

Morituri Norifumi: roman by Jean-Marc Rivet

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

2.5

Kind of hard to understand what's happening at some points, and it feels like the middle of the book is just filling up with nothing that matters compared to what the prologue and end are about. 

Carrie by Stephen King

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

Tobie Lolness by Timothée de Fombelle

4.5

The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

You have to read a few chapters to get used to the different point of views, but once used to it you can really get into the story and world!

We follow the story from 2 main perspectives that complete each other and give us a full picture of the world they live in and the events that precedes the story. 

The ending is very open, making you hope that maybe something changed. 

Voleuse by Lucie Bryon

emotional funny fast-paced

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

5.0

Great story and characters. 

Le cimetière des autobus by Julien Neel

emotional funny 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

Mortebouse by Julien Neel

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Pourquoi est-ce un chef-d'oeuvre ? : 80 tableaux et sculptures expliqués by Andy Pankhurst, Lucinda Hawksley

informative medium-paced

4.0

Ce livre est surtout destiné à des personnes voulant des connaissances basiques sur des grandes œuvres de l'histoire de l'art et leur important.