sleepyshelves's reviews
153 reviews

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

5.0

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Dragon Den by Kriss Dean
Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.

Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for an advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review!
I wanted to like this. I really really did... And yet.
The writing was really just not there.
It reads like a F&F fanfiction. Sometimes a nearly word-for-word carbon copy of the first Fast & Furious film but with the names changed and dragons instead of cars. As another reviewer noted, there were so many nearly verbatim quotes from The Fast and the Furious throughout the novella, that it almost felt as though the only real difference became that they were racing dragons instead of cars. There was not much in the way of world building, so readers were just thrown into the world with little regard for how they would find their footing. With monumental action happening at every turn, there’s no conceptualization of who the characters are or how they move through their world. I had issues with the semantics, the narration, and the relationships that, as a reader, I was expected to root for. This one way just not what I wanted it to be. I had such high hopes for it but feel that it would have benefitted greatly from a generous round of editing.

Song of the Sea: The Graphic Novel by Ross Stewart, Tomm Moore, Samuel Sattin

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
Did not finish book.

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I am absolutely enthralled by the illustration. The artwork is beyond gorgeous and dynamic, and will serve as an excellent resource for illustrators and storytellers of all kinds. The illustration is so reverent and beautifully rendered. There is just so much love and admiration in these panels.
Wow. Just...
Wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Torture, Grief, and Murder

Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure by M. Morris, Kelly Anne Dalton, Karina Argow

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Bunny by Mona Awad
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

Really hyped but honestly I don't think I like literary books at all.

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

I want to come back to this but my account was deleted so I can no longer listen to it. Will have to find my physical copy