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214 reviews

Dear Rebel: 125+ Women Share Their Secrets to Taking on the World by Rebel Girls

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Inspiring and really tunged at the heart  strings. This is differently a read for girls to give them ideas to move forward. Wish there was a boys version too.
Interned by Pamela Rushby

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Just WOW. I look at interment camps in Australian history. Yes I knew about them but this story is just brilliant. It really looks into this part of Australian history that is not that widely know (unless you like visiting historical place like  I like to visit Trail Bay Goal in NSW). The truth this didn't just happen in WW1 but WW2 with Japanese Australians too. Back to the  book Pamela style really sinks you in with easy prose that you can see yourself in the conditions and the places that the character are. The characters are well developed and all unique with their own flaws and issues they must face. I will like to read more of from this author.
The King of Koraha by Maria V. Snyder

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

5.0

Beautiful finish to this trilogy. This author has done it again.
Neon Ghosts: A Witch's Sin by Daniel B. Greene

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Best yet from this author. It got me from the opening line and held me till the end word. Action plus, vampires dystopian/cyber punk and mental health which was done realistic. The characters were wonderfully developed and really popped off the page or in this case felt dolid from the audio. Narrator was brilliant too.
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Neverlanders by Tom Taylor

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-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

A new and innovative take on the classic Peter Pan with a new set of characters to love.
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins

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emotional reflective slow-paced

1.5

Maybe in verse but only gave small highlights of Eva's life and large jumps means you did not or could emerge into the story. Read more like a picture story book that lost its way.
The City of Zirdai by Maria V. Snyder

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring tense medium-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

4.5

Secrets of the Vampire: A Supernatural Sourcebook of Our Legend and Lore by Elsa Whyte, Julie Légère

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informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Beautiful look at the history of the myth of vampires or vampire like creatures through time and culture as discussed by an ancient version of this. It goes up to modern takes on vampire too. The illustration are haunting dark and beautiful. It was fun to learn information I did not know before and the stuff I did more context was learnt about time place where these ideas came from.
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

First half was interesting but slow. Once the book reached halfway the action really started to accelerate the book forward and page turning or the inability to press the pause button. Lovely discriptive writing. Overall I did enjoy it and a book the can bridge scfi/fantasy with historical/contemporary reads.
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Yazidi! by Mini Ludvin, Aurélien Ducoudray

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dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful art work easy reading but gets quiet dark before the end. A good look about the issues that come from terrorist groups especially for young girls.
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