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The Summer Palace by C.S. Pacat

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emotional
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

I thought, I have lost everything and gained you, and I would almost make the trade, if I didn't know it had happened that way for you, too.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 5 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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3.0

Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

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emotional tense
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Dreaming is about intention, and Ronan intended for this forest to last. He intended for this forest to tell him how to exist in the future as a dreamer. He intended for this forest to be able to survive without him. He intended for this forest to want him.
(It was about Adam, of course)

How do I survive after reading this series? I love all of it so much.
Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

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emotional mysterious
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Jordan Hennessy was art in front of art in a room that was art in a building that was art in a life that was art, and Declan told himself he had only come here to get his car back.

WHAT THE FUCKKKKK
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

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emotional mysterious
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

On weekdays, he gave in to the impulse of adding to his strange herds. On weekends, he spent his Mass regretfully apologizing to God for his hubris.
Opal by Maggie Stiefvater

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emotional
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

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adventurous emotional
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Making Ronan Lynch smile felt as charged as making a bargain with Cabeswater. These weren't forces to play with.

🦐🦐🦐
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

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adventurous mysterious
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

'Ingredients: cow's milk, salt, starter cultures' - so like, Dave Brubeck, Warhol, things like that - 'coagulating enzyme,' oh that is mainstream media.

I'm loving these books so much. The writing is so clever. Even the characters I dislike are endearing and interesting.
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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adventurous emotional
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate.

Oh, what a wild ride. Oh, how I love Ronan. Oh. Just oh.
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
I LOVE the premise of this book. I'm fascinated with the world building and curious to see what happens.

But a main aspect of the story is too triggering for me so I can't continue, at least right now.
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