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538 reviews

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

Same old plot line again 😑 There's an aro side character in this. Elsie, baby, you're fucking autistic! If only you knew that you were masking!! 
Guy falls first: ✅
Guy looks like Adam Driver: ✅
Henley mention: ✅
Am I attracted to him inner monologue: ✅
Misunderstanding trope after you do it multiple times: ✅✔️✅
New concepts: ❌
Special mention to the Bella Alice Twilight omegaverse mention that had me jumping off the walls 😂

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

Okay this was a very cool sci-fi concept. I loved the plot they introduced halfway through. And the characters all went from hating each other to slowly understanding each other was nice. Yiso was such a good character. 

Ravensong by TJ Klune

adventurous emotional funny inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Gordon and Mark, my beloved 🥰 They were my favourites in the first book. This book was sooooo good but sooooo angsty!! No regrets! I loved it 🫡 MOAR!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Abandonment

Moderate: Abandonment

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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

3.5

The Long Game by Ann Leckie

4.0

Falling Bodies by Rebecca Roanhorse

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Jesus Christ! Trigger warnings for the ending, and the middle and what kind of fucked up story was that. It was engrossing but I did not see the ending coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Void by Veronica Roth

4.0

Good short story. Love when authors can write a fully formed, tangible, emotional story in the span of a few pages. 

System Collapse by Martha Wells

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The married adventures of ART and Murderbot 🫡 I'd like to request 10 more please.

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

fast-paced

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

0.0

-1 stars

This was a fucking piece of shit. Only good thing was that I didn't have to read a sex on the chessboard scene. 

No coherent thoughts, only curses for this book.

There was dubious consent and many vaguely insulting things. Learn to do fucking research (the chess moves for the Polgar vs Anand game were wrong even though it's available on a simple Google search), stop trying to appeal to the tiktok masses.

Stabbing this book like it's Julius Caesar.

Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

This was really good and nice and had sooooo much consent. It was a dream come true. Hades the consent king 🫡