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Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

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dark emotional medium-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

3.5

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

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

2.75

I would describe this genre as literary horror with magical realism. 

I was bored and couldn't get invested in their relationship. I wasn't really horrified or scared either. Maybe I got into this book with the wrong expectations of the story.
Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan

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

3.75

I just love the world, atmosphere, and magic. However, the plot fell short in this second book and things got quite repetetive. I also was quite annoyed with the main character sometimes. I still found it really entertaining though. 
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

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dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

3.0

Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

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dark reflective 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

4.75

So good! Great story, great characters, great twist and turns, and great cliffhanger!

As good as the first book.
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Misery by Stephen King

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Good thriller. Liked the ending. Didn't like the book within the book and skipped most of it. I had a hard time to keep up my reading pace and motivation since you are pulled out of the original story. Others might not be bothered by this but that is part of being it a lower rating.
The audiobook was amazingly read!
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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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dark reflective 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? Yes

3.5

Gruesome, horriffic, disturbing story with a promising conspiracy. It actually made me feel nasuas! 

Because of a virus affecting animals, people turned to cannibalism. This in itself I find rather unrealistic but it made for a good comparison to how we treat and eat animals, and to show social injustice. It makes you reflect upon that.

This book started off really strong but later on it did not receive the depth that I had hoped for. We didn't learn much about the conspiracy which was the part I was personally interested in since it would have provided more depth to the story. Now, it is quite superficial trauma p*rn and words for shock value. The conspiracy was a missed opportunity.

I really enjoyed the audiobook because I liked the accent and the pronunciations of the narrator.I liked how the book ended. It showed moral hipocricy at its finest.
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The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

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dark emotional mysterious slow-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

2.5

Short book but felt really slow and took me very long to finish it. Promising concept but bad execution in my opinion. 

The format and the writing was interesting. I liked the caribean setting and the creole language. The first part of the book captivated me, but at the end it felt tiring and repetetive.

I was also kind of surprised that this book was written by a woman. It felt sexist to me.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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adventurous dark reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is an amazing read, but this is definitely not a light read! It basically contains all the trigger warnings you can think of, so be aware of that starting this book.

Amazing writing, and a difficult, dark, thought-provoking story to read. This story is about a black woman with modern values and norms time travelling to a time of slavery in the South of America. Even though this has the sci-fi/fantasy element of time tracelling, I wouldn't consider this much as a sci-fi book. This book leans more towards historical/literary fiction. A book exploring history, humanity, society, intereacial realationships, power dynamics, racsim, sexism and trauma.

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