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A Shadow Crown by Melissa Blair

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This was sooooo much better than the first one. Very proud of Blair for improving her writing and characters. 
Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's National Poetry Slam Champions by Stephen Colman, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Lynne Procope, Bob Holman, Roger Bonair-Agard, Alix Olson

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4.0

I got annoyed at Alix Olson’s white feminist poems and Stephen Colman’s black guy in white body poetry. I loved all the other ones tho! Especially Lynne Procope’s! 
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

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5.0

The Dawn and Its Light by Piper C.J.

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

4.0

This was a good conclusion. I'm glad that Piper CJ was realistic with the fact that not everyone survives uprisings and you can't save everyone when pain does come. It was good! I hope we get more into the demon and ancient gods lore in the Villains prequels. 
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Footprints in the Mind by Javan

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4.25

Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho by Sappho, Willis Barnstone

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5.0

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols

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4.0

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

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

3.0

I wanted to like this but the writing got so annoying sometimes. Melissa Blair could benefit from not having this in first person past tense. This would have been ten times better with third person past tense. Hopefully the second book is better because that ending was pretty interesting.
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The Gloom Between Stars by Piper C.J.

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adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

Piper C.J. got lost in the sauce for a while, exploring characters and all, but when something did happen it felt almost shocking because I was enjoying all this exploration of her characters. The ending was so confusing tho, I guess we’ll learn more in Dawn?