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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

adventurous funny fast-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

4.25

The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

continues to make some baffling choices throughout but the awesome parts are so awesome.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund

challenging reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

The description on storygraph is just sort of not accurate. Or at least the tone certainly isn't. The book itself has absolutely no description on it of what it's about and I think going in blind like that is how the book is meant to be read. 

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

challenging inspiring fast-paced

4.75

A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty

adventurous emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.25

The thing about this book is that for sort of most of it there's really nothing happening. But then all the things that DO happen are a) really awesome and b) completely NUTS. Same goes for the characters who are so earnest and trying their best but also so totally unhinged and illogical in the way only teenage protagonists can be. Same also goes for the worldbuilding which doesn't always make sense  but is so unique and vibrant and colorful, if you'll forgive the expression, that it stuck with 14-year-old me enough to make me want to revisit the book as an adult to see if I still liked it. Turns out I do still like it, but in a different way than I remembered liking it, which is sort of a delight to find. 
Also, having read Gravity is the Thing which is an adult novel by the same author last year, it was really really fun to see which themes reoccur and how they reflect differently in different genres. I love seeing that with an author. 
ALSO: tackled it as an audiobook this time around and thought all the narrators were excellent and that the book did actually benefit from having multiple, which not all books do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

yet another book that you see all over the place that i think is just sort of Fine

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

informative slow-paced

4.5