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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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

3.0

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give plastic form to formless things, and to have music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! How was there anything so real as words?
Bound by Hatred by Cora Reilly

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2.0

Bound by Duty by Cora Reilly

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1.5

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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

3.5

“There is no story that is not true,” said Uchendu. “The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

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

4.0

You were supposed to be a night terror made of smoke, not a man of flesh and bone who left footsteps in the dirt.

Love is violence my darling; it is a thunderstorm that tears apart your world, More often than not, love ends in tragedy, but we go on loving in the hope that this time it will be different.

I craved you the way maidens crave the grave, the way death burns for human touch: inconsolably, unrelentingly, aching for annihilation in your kiss.
Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

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2.0

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

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

1.5

Then I shattered, everything I was rupturing into stars and galaxies and comets, nothing but pure, shining joy. 
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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

3.0

“ Isn’t there something in living dangerously?”
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

5.0

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity —but that would be asking too much of fate!
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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adventurous dark reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

I’ve read this book multiple times and this was the first time the severity of the situation hit me.