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emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
One of the most relatable pieces of literature I’ve ever had the privilege of devouring. It is witty, sharp and poignant in a way that cuts right to the heart. Surprising, and wonderful in every single way.
Marnie is one of those characters that made me feel like the author crawled around in my brain and delved up my greatest fears, insecurities and traits and formed a fully fledged fictional human out of them. I mean, she’s even a barista?! It was touching and heartfelt and made reflect on a lot of life, and my past and present friendships.
I think my favourite thing about Crushing is that it’s about love, in all it’s forms, and it’s a celebration of that love.
Thank you Genevieve for writing this 💗
Marnie is one of those characters that made me feel like the author crawled around in my brain and delved up my greatest fears, insecurities and traits and formed a fully fledged fictional human out of them. I mean, she’s even a barista?! It was touching and heartfelt and made reflect on a lot of life, and my past and present friendships.
I think my favourite thing about Crushing is that it’s about love, in all it’s forms, and it’s a celebration of that love.
Thank you Genevieve for writing this 💗
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
Reread (14/11/23): I am dumb, and know more and yet know even less.
Harrow took everything I knew from Gideon, chucked it in a blender on high and then spat it back out at me. I’ve never been so confused in my life, but I loved every single word of Harrow.
Filled to the brim with snarky humour, tear shedding anecdotes, lots of bones and at its centre — love and loss and it’s culmination.
I can’t say literally anything else without spoiling EVERYTHING, so just read it please!!
Harrow took everything I knew from Gideon, chucked it in a blender on high and then spat it back out at me. I’ve never been so confused in my life, but I loved every single word of Harrow.
Filled to the brim with snarky humour, tear shedding anecdotes, lots of bones and at its centre — love and loss and it’s culmination.
I can’t say literally anything else without spoiling EVERYTHING, so just read it please!!
dark
tense
emotional
funny
hopeful
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Have you ever been craving a book and had your needs so perfectly met that it feels like the book is giving you a hug? That's what A Lady for a Duke was for me. I was craving a romance, and this book DELIVERED!
A Lady for a Duke is hopeful, sad, full of old and new love, yearning, angst and the SLOW BURN!! One of those books where you're screaming at the characters to just KISS ALREADY.
We also explored some quite heavy subjects, like war, PTSD and addiction - which were written extremely well, and with a careful hand. This added a touch of reality to this sweeping romance that just pulled at your heartstrings.
If you're looking for your next romance rec, that is filled to the brim with tenderness, heartache and yearning, please (PLEASE) pick up A Lady for a Duke!
A Lady for a Duke is hopeful, sad, full of old and new love, yearning, angst and the SLOW BURN!! One of those books where you're screaming at the characters to just KISS ALREADY.
We also explored some quite heavy subjects, like war, PTSD and addiction - which were written extremely well, and with a careful hand. This added a touch of reality to this sweeping romance that just pulled at your heartstrings.
If you're looking for your next romance rec, that is filled to the brim with tenderness, heartache and yearning, please (PLEASE) pick up A Lady for a Duke!
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
This was an EXPERIENCE.
We have this beautiful group of LGBTQ+ youth who come together to fight a religious cult, with a trans boy at the centre of the conflict, we have young love and coming of age — but at the same time, we have heavy body horror, religious trauma/horror, mutilation and abuse which is written with a very careful hand. AJW has an extreme talent for imagery in writing, some of the most vivid scenes I have had the chance to read. It was grotesquely beautiful!
It is simultaneously queer joy and rage, with wonderful intersectional characters and beautiful representations of trans and autistic characters.
The dialogue was fiercely aimed at a teenage audience, but the extreme violence would make hesitate to recommend to any reader under 15 — personally.
We have this beautiful group of LGBTQ+ youth who come together to fight a religious cult, with a trans boy at the centre of the conflict, we have young love and coming of age — but at the same time, we have heavy body horror, religious trauma/horror, mutilation and abuse which is written with a very careful hand. AJW has an extreme talent for imagery in writing, some of the most vivid scenes I have had the chance to read. It was grotesquely beautiful!
It is simultaneously queer joy and rage, with wonderful intersectional characters and beautiful representations of trans and autistic characters.
The dialogue was fiercely aimed at a teenage audience, but the extreme violence would make hesitate to recommend to any reader under 15 — personally.
adventurous
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
tense
fast-paced
This book calls out systemic, and internalised, racism so flawlessly under the guise of satire that it gives you whiplash. A true masterpiece of its genre.
Yellowface is a fever dream of a book that is made to be devoured in a single sitting. We follow a truly horrible main character, I’ve never hated a MC more, and yet I could not stop reading this book? I needed to know what happened next. It is rampant, dark and twisty but the question it poses at the heart of the tale is “who has the right to tell which stories?” — which is a very relevant, and important, question to pose to the general public. YF effortlessly critiques our own internal biases, and how they affect and us and the stories we share with the world. This was a literary shotgun, it is sharp and oozes wit.
This is a book everyone needs to read, and now!
Yellowface is a fever dream of a book that is made to be devoured in a single sitting. We follow a truly horrible main character, I’ve never hated a MC more, and yet I could not stop reading this book? I needed to know what happened next. It is rampant, dark and twisty but the question it poses at the heart of the tale is “who has the right to tell which stories?” — which is a very relevant, and important, question to pose to the general public. YF effortlessly critiques our own internal biases, and how they affect and us and the stories we share with the world. This was a literary shotgun, it is sharp and oozes wit.
This is a book everyone needs to read, and now!
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Paige’s journey continues in The Mime Order, where she renters the London/Scion underworld after her escape from Sheol I. Paige is readjusting to her old life, and finding she doesn’t quite fit as she once did.
The first half of this book unfortunately didn’t quite hit the mark for me. I found it really slow, and found the plot a bit clunky in parts. There were certain things that really irritated me as well, but mostly it just felt like it was missing the magic that book 1 had.
However, the pace picked up in the second half and the tension built exponentially! I couldn’t stop reading towards the end, I just needed to know what happened next.
I’m excited to see where Paige’s story goes next!!
The first half of this book unfortunately didn’t quite hit the mark for me. I found it really slow, and found the plot a bit clunky in parts. There were certain things that really irritated me as well, but mostly it just felt like it was missing the magic that book 1 had.
However, the pace picked up in the second half and the tension built exponentially! I couldn’t stop reading towards the end, I just needed to know what happened next.
I’m excited to see where Paige’s story goes next!!
