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Tastes Like Candy by Ivy Tholen

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I thought this would be more intense than it was but it's about a group of teenage girls in their senior year doing a Senior Scavenger in a carnival and there's a masked killer who kills them off one by one and only one survives. It was fun and he kills in weird and interesting ways. Fast paced and a quick read

Craving Murder: Texas Thrills by A.V. Donaldson

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

So fun and entertaining. Crazy boss girl energy killer and lots of spice. Loved this and it’s not for the faint of heart 

Dolls of Ruin by Mae Celeste, Quinn Hawthorne

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Not much to this prequel at all because it was so short but pretty interesting and creepy vibes with the dolls and it leads to more questions and stuff for the series. I liked it and will continue with the series

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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? No

3.75

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

adventurous challenging hopeful 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? No

4.0

Craving Murder: The Black Orchid Killer by A.V. Donaldson, A.V. Donaldson

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The Unity Experiment by NK Brown

adventurous challenging fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This is a fast paced action packed  story about 17 year old Anna who enters something called The Unity Experiment and she has to survive on her team with other species who are at odds with each other and the goal is to create unity between them and she finds out she’s the only one who can communicate with what they call the Spirit World. There is also a little tiny bit of romance between Dylan the werewolf and Anna which was pretty cute

Fractured by Roxy Rich

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This first book is about sisters Jolene and Alice. They have a stepdad that is truly evil and both of them get manipulated and Jolene does everything in her power to protect her younger sister while she gets to be apart of the shady stuff going on to make money for herself and help just her and her sister. This book is full of heavy topics, SA and Trafficking, Drugs and Violence etc. For the authors first book this is very well written but repetitive in certain words that takes me out of the story and how Jolene talks isn’t really realistic if she’s just a kid or teenager just a lot of very flowery writing and I personally think it’s way overwritten. Nonetheless I still enjoyed this and I recommend this, It’s a tragic story.

Venom by Yolanda Olson

challenging dark tense fast-paced

3.0

 This is a short story and literally this isn't for anyone who has any triggers! This literally is just honestly torture from beginning to end for no reason... which is why I don't really know what to rate this really. I loved the writing and the detail to the story but just because there was no point of this and no plot I just was like huh? Maybe it's just a me thing but this isn't bad by any means. I just wanted more reasoning to the torture and just more detail behind the story. I'm kinda disappointed..

 

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous challenging 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? N/A

4.0

Audiobook 🎧
I really liked this story even though sometimes I was confused cause I don’t really read fantasy that much but it’s so character driven and I enjoyed each character. The audiobook made it better with a full cast pretty much. Very fun and action packed but very long chapters though..