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172 reviews

Othello by William Shakespeare

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adventurous challenging dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

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informative lighthearted slow-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

3.0

Okay
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

3.0

Full of beautiful one liners. Copy page near the end about forgotten sea creatures 
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

Someone please cut out Kyle's tongue and feed him to the serpents. 

Wintrow, baby, do you need a kidney? I have two. Maybe a heart? I have no use for this one.

I'm despondent, the hell am I supposed to do now? Read another book? egh
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

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

3.75

How can you, from the comfort of your too cold bedroom, dare to rate history?
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

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adventurous lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

reading slump rescue,  I love the desert,  thank you very much. 

but unnecessary romance plot. strange pacing - too little in the middle too much at the end, I guess to hook second book. only motivation to read rest of series would be fomo. who is nahri beyond a con artist? no connection to characters and therefore plot.  i should have loved this, but I didn't, it just disappointed me which is worse than hate. no visceral emotions elicited, already receding from my memory. 
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

One to haunt my 3am walks through dark hallways to and from the bathroom. 

Interspersed with too much reality to shrug off as simply fiction. 

A tragic play on revisited trauma, inherited afflictions left to fester.
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer

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challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Degenerate filth. 5 stars 
My Girl and the City by Sam Selvon

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lighthearted

3.0