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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This starts out as a funny story that weavs the liefs of random People together over a way to go to the past for a couple of minuten before the Coffee gets cold. 
However, it turns out this book isn't just a funny premisse it is about taking responsibility, freezing at a moment in time you feel important, sacrifice and great loss. 
I cried my eyes out, i loved it. For a small book it can geven you a lot of emotions.
Savannah Red (1): The Bell Witches by Lindsey Kelk

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

4.25

So this is the first installment of a series. This is obvious because nothing much happens and a lot happens. This is to say. There is the setup of the world not just the facts but the feel of savanah the culture the history of the family. The creatures and powers that live and rule this world. Our girl moves to long lost family she did'nt know she had when tragedie strikes and her father dies. She hears and experiences she is a witch and is suposed to come into her full powers on her 17th birthday wich is only a couple of months away. She makes a friend and meets a boy and finds out there is a prophocy that may or may not be about her. We follow her go throuw indisision about wanting to be a witch and grow closer to her friends as we set up the ending of the book for a sequal.
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Edgewood by Kristen Ciccarelli

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adventurous inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This is a wonderful athmosperic book that weaves a fairytale of dark woods, fae, song, love, disapointmen  and promise into a marvelous tale of courage, sacrefice and determination. You will love this book this fall when you snuggle up wih a blanky and your book.
The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

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adventurous emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This is a rather strange one for me. I read reviews before i started and again after for the strange thng is a lot of the reviewers are richt even if they have oposit reviews. This book is to slow and to Quick at the same time. The first half of the book is slow and sets the sene. Then the love interest shows up and they fall in deep undying love in 7 days? And the second pair are pairs of in like 2 days this is a little stupid. I did enjoy the read though for what it was i found the slow parts atmospheric and the love angsty  and impossible so i enjoyed the strange and bumpy ride.
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

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

4.0

I read the scollomance series this week and after just finishing the last book i took a shower to think about it (and wash some Maw-mouth off). After the first 2 books i thought this was going to be a 5 star read for me for i had enjoyed myself a lot during the first 2 books. Reading the last book i had prepered myself to be devestated and cry my eyes out as was the setup from the sequel however, this just did not happen for me. After reading the first 2 books i thought the story was heading for an eppic end. And yes the end was pretty memorabele but also a little bit to clean for my liking. The hole story went on a return to balace and karma route. You reap what you sow in theorie. In practice that meant i think some of these caracters should have pand a higher price. So i enjoyed the series a lot but in a world of three books that has been so torturous for our students im a little disapointed by how NICE everything wraped up. 
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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

This Savage Song by V.E. Schwab

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

Loved this book!
Love and Other Cages by Emilia Ares

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

3.0

This is just not my genre of book. I thought this would be a love story. Boy was i wrong. This is about abuse, of power straingth over others and couertion and there is no explenation why and to what end so essentially this book is one long exersise in suffering. The narator did not help her voice made the maine caracter veel in a constant state of suffering even when she wasnt this story took too long and answered no questions what so ever about my caracters wich made it seem like an enormous waist of time.
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Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I e joyed the read if you are not into horror but would like some spooky fibes for the start off your fall season this will be a nice read 
Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Omg this book had me crying rhe intire time. It tals aboud traumas mental health and anxiety and how your thoughts can num you into indesicion and living for the dangers you precieve ahead, real or imaginative. The romance rurning back and forth on a dime was a little less belevable. But i choose to for a happy ending sooths me. Rachel Griffin you did it to me again.