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91 reviews

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

Same vibes as Juno but if Jennifer Garner was the weirdo instead of Jason Bateman

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, Pregnancy, Cursing, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Death

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Death, Child death, Kidnapping, Blood, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Vomit

Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale

medium-paced

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

1.75

Readable but is such a  hard Gen X man  book that I couldn’t overlook any of the flaws. The way women are talked about is such an ick and the mystery isn’t good. All of the characters basically had the same personality as well. The humor is also just :/

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Domestic abuse

Minor: Animal death and Rape

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

3.0

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

fast-paced

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

4.25

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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

3.25

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

4.75

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Suicide

Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-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? Yes

3.75

The humor didn’t really land for me but I think the story was good overall and the bits of history woven in was informative 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Violence, Death, Islamophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: War and Hate crime

Luster by Raven Leilani

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Racism, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abortion