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Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

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

4.5

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

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adventurous reflective slow-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? No

3.75

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

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adventurous mysterious 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

4.5

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

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adventurous emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth

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challenging funny informative
  • 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

3.5

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

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

2.5

Darling Girl is marketed as a dark Peter Pan story which paints Peter Pan as the villain and not the hero that we all know and love... I was so excited for this one but that might be part of the reason I was so let down. This felt more like a medical mystery than anything else. The plot positively crept, I figured out the twists well before they were revealed, the characters were not relatable in any way, and Peter Pan?? I'm all for a villainous Peter dripping with dark magic and a sense of gleeful malice but making him
a drug dealing rapist adult man fathering children across London
??? Come ON!! That's certainly not the swoony, morally grey, so-bad-you-love-to-hate-him misaligned hero turned villain that I was hoping for! More like a
washed up homeless man with a heroin problem and too few showers in his life
. Ugh!
The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos

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adventurous mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.75

White Hot by Ilona Andrews

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adventurous lighthearted mysterious 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

4.5

The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
Interesting premise but didn't hold my attention.