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21 reviews
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and War
Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes by Nayan Shah
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Shah gives the reader and adequate background on the events surrounding and leading up to hunger strikes without getting bogged down in unnecessary details. You don’t need to be an expert on women’s suffrage, the IRA, or immigration to appreciate how and why the hunger strikes worked.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide and Gaslighting
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
dark
fast-paced
4.75
A different take on Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. A little disorienting. Very cold and detached depictions of intimacy, which added to the narrative very well.
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement and Violence
Moderate: Death
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Had to come back and up my review from 4.75 to a 5 because I never stopped thinking about it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
funny
sad
fast-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? Yes
4.75
Luster by Raven Leilani
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5