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Sunshine on Vinegar Street by Karen Comer

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

Never Die by Rob J. Hayes

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

▷ Representation: Japanese cast & setting; fat protagonist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Alcohol, Violence, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Gun violence

➸ Trigger warnings for fatphobia and body-shaming, alcohol consumption (multiple on-page scenes), a secondary character is dying of leprosy with some mentions of his symptoms including loss of fingers and teeth, graphic, on-page fight scenes, including battle scenes/raids, destruction and pillaging of villages, hand-to-hand combat, and gun- & sword violence, murder by gunshot, poisoning, and stabbing (on page), attempted murder by strangulation, and main character death (on-page).

Seraph of the End, Vol. 8 by Takaya Kagami

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

The Reindeer and the Submarine by Beverley McWilliams

funny hopeful informative relaxing medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Gun violence

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Ann Older

hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

#1) The Mimicking of Known Successes ★★★★☆

▷ Representation: sapphic protagonist & love interest; wlw main couple.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Gore

➸ Trigger warnings for dead body, murder (off-page), disappearance/missing people (theme), and cult.

Black Cockatoo by Carl Merrison

dark emotional 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? No

1.25

▷ Representation: Indigenous Australian mcs & scs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

➸ Trigger warnings for graphic animal death & cruelty.

Huda and Me by H. Hayek

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

▷ Representation: Lebanese Muslim cast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Islamophobia, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Kidnapping

➸ Trigger warnings for racist and Islamophobic hate crime, child abuse, and kidnapping of an infant.

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

mysterious

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, and Gun violence

➸ Trigger warnings for period-typical racism and racial slurs (anti-Chinese), infidelity (secondary characters), suicide by gunshot, death of a husband from heart failure mentioned, murder of an uncle by gun violence, murder by poisoning (through injections of bacterial cultures, disguised as natural deaths from blood poisoning and tetanus), murder of a husband by gun violence (disguised as suicide), attempted murder by poisoning and gun violence (on-page), death in a plane crash mentioned, and blackmail.

Field of Screams by Wendy Parris

hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

fell flat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

➸ Trigger warnings for grief & loss depiction, death of a father recounted, and death of a twin sister/child by lightning strike mentioned.

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

#1) That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon ★★★☆☆
#1.5) Mistlefoe ★☆☆☆☆
#2) That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf ★★★★★
#2.5) A Bump In Boohail ★★★☆☆

▷ Representation: Black fat protagonist; Black scs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcohol

➸ Trigger warnings for alcohol consumption, sword violence, fire, and animal attack