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394 reviews

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless

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adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

3.75

gormflaith is sooooo #boymom
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

this was a fun & refreshing read but the end did in fact ruin it for me

finally i get a boom centered around female friendship & one of them FUCKING DIES after achieving her goals & dreams. she had it for like 2 weeks. i am RAGING.
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

men ain’t shit & i do not trust any of them
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

such a fascinating read about textile creation & women in ancient societies 
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 32%.
unfortunately i just couldnt get into it
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

3.75

such a good story with a mix of my favorite things: history, fantasy, and mystery 
Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

2.75

i was really looking forward to this book but it was… lackluster.
elements of it reminded me of fear street 1666 and the grace year, but the story didnt seem to go anywhere with it. the horror elements were also lackluster, it seemed fairly mundane in my opinion.
overall, i wish some details would have been more fleshed out and others forgotten. a couple of the twists were good, but more could have been done.
connections between sam & rebecca in particular were never built, no i never felt empathy for them in their respective stories. the romance was never there for me, they never KNEW each other. and their parents being taken away and never really being mentioned again didnt make sense to me.
 
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

4.0

it took me 1/3 nearly 1/2 way through the book to understand what the hell was going on & get into it but the last ~130 pages went crazy 
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

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funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing tense fast-paced

3.75

CUTTTTEEEE this is the kind of banter im talking about!!

 i forgive the age gap simply because of “the times”
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

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4.5

frodo is quite possibly the least “main character” main character i have ever read about


… legolas & gimli got married, right?