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Problem at Pollensa Bay by Agatha Christie

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I don’t like short stories but I’ve to admit it’s rather useful when you don’t have the mind to read a huge book. This compilation of different stories is great because you have different types of stories: from love advisor Mr. Parker Pyne to detective Hercule Poirot, you have choice! The stories aren’t all about murders and that’s great, and the stories about murders are fast which is also great.
I give it 4 stars only because even if the stories are great, I sometimes struggled to understand them and I’m not so sure about how the resolution of the problems. But overall I loved discovering many different characters and different crimes and problems.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.25

Boy, what a journey! I never read this book even though I’ve heard a lot about it. I never thought the story would end like this and I’m quite shocked. Not sure if I loved this book, but it was really great to read.
Don’t hesitate to read it y’all!

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Meet Me in Time by Charlotte Vale Allen

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

I think I’ll need some time to forget about this book. And I want to forget about this book.
It was not good, it was not bad, for me it was meh. Maybe because I’m not a fan of slice of life stories, because of the writing, because of the themes and the characters.

I dived in this book thinking nothing, and was quite bored by the beginning. I started to be interested after the first quarter to then be repulsed by the pedophilia being almost normalized, leaving me wondering if the author thought it is a good thing or if she wanted to denounce it. At the end, I had a hard time going through the last chapters because of the suicidal tendencies, idealizations and attempt. There were also too many sex scenes, at the beginning it was okay, I supported them but at the end I skipped most of them.
I had difficulties loving the characters and I wanted to scream at them most of the time.

I loved how the book portrayed homosexuality at first and how it criticized people criticizing homosexuality given the year the book was published. But, again, I ended disappointed. Homosexually was replaced by bisexuality, praising heterosexual relationships, using the usual “it’s because you didn’t find the good one yet”. I’m still trying to figure out if the book is criticizing homosexuality or not, if it was genuine when homosexuality was said as right or if it only was to mock homosexual relationships and people’s mindset.

I was so disappointed in how the story made Dana shift as almost heterosexual, how the story made him in love with a woman and praising how better it was. I wish he would have remained homosexual, because the character was better like this.

Some heavy and important themes were discussed and I find that good, still nowadays it’s important to talk about women, sexual liberty, contraception, violences against women. That’s why I give this book 3 stars, because we still need to read about all this, but some things are unnecessary and made my reading experience awful, made me lost the purpose of the story, made me wonder what was the moral of the story.

At the end, everything went so fast. We went from Glenn’s depression and alcoholism to a happy ending in less than 2 pages, without conclusion, without moral. I stared at the book wondering if I really read all the pages, and I in fact did read all the pages.

Not a bad book overall, it has great and important themes, but sometimes poorly handled. Still was interesting to dive into family dynamics, relationships and hard reality of life not being always pink and joyful.

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Heartless by Elsie Silver

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

This book altered my brain chemistry in a good way. It will forever hold a special place in my heart. I’m happy I read it, I’m happy I read it now.
Willa and Cade’s story taught me so much.

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Ella la promise by Liv Stone

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adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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? Yes

4.25

Parfois, une douce lecture, un peu kitsch, clichée, mais adorable et pleine de rebondissements est tout ce qu'il nous faut!
J'ai adoré l'histoire entre Deimos et Ella, j'ai surtout adoré leurs caractères contradictoires et comment ils se répondaient, comment ils ont tout les deux changé et évolué au contact de l'autre. Je ne suis pas fan du tout de la trope des mariages forcés et pourtant avec ce livre, dans le cadre des dieux et des sorcières, c'est bien passé. Peut-être aussi parce que les deux personnages ont différentes raisons personnelles d'avoir acceptés, peut-être aussi parce que Deimos a choisi sa promise et qu'Ella a dit oui d'elle-même.
Un autre point important, c'est la découverte du côté sensible attentionné de Deimos auprès de son frère Phobos. Son côté décalé de sa famille le rendait aussi attachant, car on comprend que malgré qu'il soit un dieu, il a ses faiblesses (autre que celle d'être la terreur).
J'ai apprécié découvrir Deimos au fur et à mesure, je me suis vraiment attachée à son personnage malgré qu'il soit la terreur. Comme le dit Ella, il tient aussi d'Aphrodite. J'aurais cependant aimé voir davantage sa relation avec Phobos. C'est son frère et il compte beaucoup pour lui alors j'aurais aimé voir plus, j'aurais aimé voir plus d'interaction entre eux.
J'ai apprécié comment Ella s'est découverte elle-même, comment elle a découvert ses pouvoirs et comment elle a découvert la supercherie des sorcières. Au final, Deimos avait fait un bon choix en la choisissant et je trouve que les deux vont très bien ensemble!
Malheureusement, je ne sais pas si c'est mon édition qui était comme ça, mais il y avait beaucoup de faute de typographie qui m'ont des fois coupées dans la lecture, surtout à partir du milieu du livre. Rien de bien grave en soi (:

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