The story started off a little slow for me and I had a hard time getting into it right up until I realized the novel shifts perspectives. The perspective shifts were fascinating and everything picks up pace from there. The author does an amazing job of weaving all the pieces of the story together in a way that doesn’t feel contrived or forced. The individual storylines are seamlessly puzzle-pieced together to create a larger exploration of all the different ways people can explore identity, race, and family within themselves and society’s constructs.

Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman

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challenging slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? No

2.0

Really struggled to finish this one. It became so intense in the last quarter, but I still felt absolutely no attachments to the characters to feel any tension about their plight

. I like that the house became a fully sentient transformer- but any good feelings I felt about that turn in the plot was ruined by the confounding writing style that felt like reading through sludge. Plot twist at the end was neat tho. Stay winning, Zephyr! I always knew you were an icon

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

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3.75

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

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4.0

Mister Magic by Kiersten White

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dark reflective slow-paced

2.0

MC works with teens/preteens, but doesn’t know what fanfiction is. Highly sus. Very symbolic of how Val contradicts herself at every turn throughout this novel. Not personal fan of the writing style

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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dark

3.0

Ummm… knots??????? The story turned into dirty dirty smut fest toward the end, which, okay. Get your slow burn payoff. But I think the plot had potential and didn’t have to turn into a shark tank Ted talk that explains the entire plot only to fade to black for the final battle

Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

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mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Kept waiting for the twist and the camp. The Heroine is routinely portrayed as failing to do any due diligence and completely contradicting her own good senses to a degree that I found I unbelievable and unserviceable to women in general.

The implication that none of the women in Judith’s life truly care for her leaves me so sad- not for Judith- but for the author that can’t seem to fathom the idea of women sticking up for other women. The feminism went so far, it pulled a pacman and came out on the other side of the spectrum

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