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King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

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adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

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adventurous dark emotional funny 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


It’s fascinating to see how my opinion of this trilogy has changed with how my life has changed since I first read it. I LOVED this trilogy this time around. I would have changed nothing. Mal x Alina at the orphanage for life. 
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

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

5.0

I don’t know why coming back to these books has been such a religious (ha) experience for me, but I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. I love how morally gray Alina is in this second book. And oh, oh, how I love Nikolai. 
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

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adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor

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

2.0

If you want a blood-pounding mystery thriller, this will probably do the trick. But at the end of the day, I feel uneasy about the plot. I still have so many questions. Not about what happened, but how what happened would ever be feasible in any stretch of the imagination. The treatment of minority characters is also gross. 
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The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.75

I put off reading this for so long because I was worried about what it would be like to go back to this world. Would it feel like a contrived Disney sequel? It turns out it was just perfect, as always. 
You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

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hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

If you aren’t new to fat activism and you’ve listened to maintenance phase for a long time, none of this will be new to you. This book is an excellent primer for the people in your life who still talk about “feeling fat” or “I don’t want to be fat, but you look fine.” I listened to the audiobook, which Aubrey narrated herself. It was good, but also missing her usual laughter. In particular, I loved how much time she spent uplifting and centering people with more marginalized identities than her own. 
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

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

3.0

Beautifully written, deeply unsettling.