kathyovalle01's reviews
40 reviews

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Wow, just wow. I did not enjoyed the brain rot this book gave me. In a lot of ways this book felt (because it is) as a political analysis and critique of our own word and operational social system. Yet, it feels so futuristic, so ridiculously far fetched, so far away from our actual timeline, but the book is like a 100 years old. I loved the political convection I had to this book but I didn’t feel that with the characters or even the narration. In some parts the narration and tone was really awkward, detached and messy, and in a way this things added to the story but they kin of threw me off pace when reading. Regardless, I feel like this book is really worth it to explore new ideas of what social control can look like and from where it comes.

Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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

4.5

Funny Story by Emily Henry

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

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reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

I mean yeah it’s beautifully written but I think women being fooled by men and leaving the rest of their lives in a desert island just to be fooled by men again are not my type of book. I felt the same way thing with Circe but I do feel Circe had a little bit more motivation to do something. Idk it didn’t speak out to me

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

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informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

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emotional lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Other than the fact that this authors are complete zionists, I was absolutely adoring like the first 90% of this book. It’s a funny little romance, I was screaming and kicking my feet up into the air but the last 10% that resolved the whole “lost contact for 11 years was absolutely atrocious.

fi First of all the way it’s fucking written because you are introduced to this problem as this huge fucking breakthrough that absolutely wrecked the insane relationship and connection that two people had. I mean, they kinda built this situation in a way you would’ve imagined something so horrendous that the other person did that completely fucked up the relationship. Every year, and there we were given hints that both of these people made a mistakes in the past, and those mistakes led to the downfall of this amazing relationship and at the end of the day none of these two characters made a single Mistake. On Elliott’s side, he was basically raped and everything was described as he made a mistake for being fucking drunk. Excuse me drunk is not the reason or is not justification for you to get raped. And why the fuck are two grown ass women trading these violation as an honest teenager mistake, as it something that happens every time someone gets drunk at a party. That was the fucking dealbreaker for me like I lost it. it was represented as a cheating situation. This was not fucking cheating and to be honest it really made me feel so fucking uncomfortable and I didn’t even wanted to keep reading, just because I had like 10 fucking pages left I finished the book. But otherwise I really think this issue broke it for me. I don’t know what the fuck.

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