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39 reviews

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.0

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

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lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

I'm in Love with Mothman by Paige Lavoie

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funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake by Claire Christian

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

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emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

Was having so much fun until the sex scene. Then I almost DNFed.

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Verity by Colleen Hoover

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dark mysterious tense fast-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

0.5

Where to even start. This book is a tire fire. Colleen Hoover INSISTS on over-explaining every detail of this story again and again to an insulting degree. It makes reading it beyond frustrating. Colleen desperately needs someone, ANYONE, to tell her to show and not tell. She could also stand to trust her audience literally even a little tiny bit.

To be perfectly honest, this book is offensive and grotesque. It’s WILDLY ableist. There’s a bunch of bizarre fatphobia and graphic depictions of

child abuse

that simply don’t need to be there. It wallows in its own shock value while providing no depth.

I’m a connoisseur of fucked up books. Dark, disturbing, freaky, etc. I don’t dislike this book because it’s fucked up. I dislike this book because it’s poorly written. I finished this book and could not help but wonder what the fucking point was.

And the final twist? Is the most half-baked bullshit I’ve ever read. It makes so little sense. It didn’t do a thing for me or the book for that matter.

Go Colleen! Give us nothing, girl!

Literally go read any book by Gillian Flynn instead of this one.

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Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis, Julia Knippen

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5