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Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.25

A beautifully-written book starring the most insufferable collection of characters I’ve ever read about. Watching them make their mistakes, break apart, hurt each other, leave, grow, change, and become themselves was an experience that I practically inhaled by the end of the book. Bonus star for the prose, which is simply gorgeous.

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An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

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Your Body is not Your Body: An Anthology by Alex Woodroe, Matt Blairstone

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challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.75

An eclectic short story collection with some real gems that I’ll no doubt revisit again and again over the years.

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Gillian Flynn does this thing where she writes about the moral and emotional dregs of humanity in a way that makes you feel disgust and despair at reading any more about their lives, and then she writes it so well that doing anything other than reading the last 80 pages in one intense, scream-inducing sitting is unthinkable. Set-up, foreshadowing, twist in the third act, and finally conclusion — fucking masterful. Goddamn.

Cursed by Marissa Meyer

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

[redacted], you had possibly the stupidest fantasy bullshit name I’ve heard in quite some time and it’s a good thing you decided to just go by Gild.

This book has everything. Demons! Ghosts! Abrupt tone shifts in the third act (just like the first book, which I was delighted to see a return to)! Pregnancy! Murder! Ship names as plot-crucial information! A fun romp as always, and why I will always come back for Marissa Meyer’s YA fantasy retelling no matter how old I get.

Red, the Wolf, and the Woods by Scarlett Gale

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emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

A bite-sized fun and sexy romp, with the sweetest developing relationship between our MCs. Should the author so desire, I’d love to return to this universe one day for a full-length story.

Maurice by E.M. Forster

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emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced