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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

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adventurous funny informative tense medium-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

4.5

Raksh my love come home the kids miss you

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The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

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adventurous hopeful informative reflective medium-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

4.75

I love love love love love Latinx authors so much. I love the bouncing narratives. It's not written confusingly. I love the interconnectedness of the world so much, it's so real! I love the bits of future; it all ties so well together especially bc this is a historical story so we kinda sorta already know what's gonna happen, it's all just so beautiful!!! I loved every moment but especially Ada’s story. What a queen boss ass bitch love her down.
The only thing I didn't like was taking long to get back to the characters. Which isn't a flaw of the writing! It was great for the flow of the story! But still! I loved the characters so much I just wanted to keep their story going!

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Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

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dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

3.0

I know too much about someone I've never met.

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Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

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

2.75

I didn't like it. I don't have much else to say. Still love Emezi's canon. I also like to pay attention to timelines and this whole book takes place in about 32 hours that's pretty cool.

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Artemis in Echo Park: Poetry by Eloise Klein Healy

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inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

2.75

Wasn’t for me, no rhymes. Couple bangers. Extra points bc I love art about my city!

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

The three of them should’ve been locking lips and hunching all together and there would’ve been less conflict. They were all made for each other. Down with monogamy!

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The Cellar by Natasha Preston

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dark sad tense 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? It's complicated

2.25

Could've been 150 pages shorter and been more effective. It isn't great, it can barely be considered good, but as a former Wattpad girlie I have to give praise to another Wattpad girlie who got traditionally published.

Room by Emma Donoghue was a better book.

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This Promised Land: A Novel by Robert Easton

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 9%.
There are so so so many books from white authors about Indigenous people. I'd read a book about that phenomenon. So far all the ones I've seen are really boring, which makes sense.

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Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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

1.75

That was so fucking boring. I put the audio on 4x speed and it still wasn't over fast enough. And it was so racist. If that's the greatest sapphic love letter the English language has to offer we've failed as a people.

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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challenging 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? Yes

2.75

That was terrifying! She's so very obviously has daddy issues (parent issues in general), abandonment issues, everything issues! She meets her boss for two minutes and suddenly she's in love? He says to her he's old enough to be her dad and they still "fall in love"??? No one told me this was a horror story! A cautionary tale to all young women! She's not even 20!!! Every girl should have an adventure when they're 19 but don't be locked down to a man in his 40s!!!! R U N

One thing I did kind of a little bit like was the many, many, many literature and bible references. Only because it made me realize what I think of now as brainrot has always existed. If they had phones they'd be obsessed with vine / tiktok / twitter / tumblr references. If all I had was books and gossip and the daily newspaper or whatever I'd be randomly making bible references too. We're not so different past humans and I, except I'm not racist. So actually we are different.

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