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The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

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emotional 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

5.0

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
Will try again in the future!
Swing by Ashleigh Renard

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4.0

It was good, but I did skim whenever I got bored. I never ever ever do that, but I simply did not care about every piece of this book and that's okay I think. I read what I was interested in and what I read was great and well written.
Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo

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emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Amazing read! I couldn't stop thinking about it when I wasn't reading; absolutely gobbled this baby up. I usually hate
pregnancy tropes but it really worked here.
. I think maybe because it was so integral to the plot, characterization and growth of the characters that it wasn't really much of a trope. Without it it wouldn't have been the same story.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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

5.0

I loved it and I love Emily Henry's work always! Idk what she puts in these books but I'm always hooked and obsessed until the last page. Nora and Charlie were a great pair, and while I'm sure some people would deem this enemies to lovers it's not really that at all - more on the side of work place to lovers maybe? Even though they don't actually work together?
Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

It was a well written book with an interesting plot and world that Hazelwood built! But I couldn't get past the omegaverse stuff. The love was great, the smut was great, but I had to edit and alter the pictures in my mind for things like knotting.
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Great short stories!!! So creative and fun and light but still covered the topic well and concisely! I was really immersed in this book and every short story was so well written and beautifully crafted.
Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 42%.
So repetitive and boring. The writing wasn't good enough to keep me interested, and there were just some sentences and phrases used that made me cringe so hard I wanted to put the book down (and usually did). I was determined to get to 50% before calling it quits and seeing what the smut was like, but even that was subpar in my opinion. I get better material while scrolling through my tumblr tags.

ALSO the main make character made no sense. How can he be so morally against kidnapoy and sex trafficking but simultaneously stalk this woman and want to hurt her? It would have made more sense for him to have a Christian Grey complex type of thing, like using sex to escape his reality and the trauma he sees and goes through and puts the terrible sex traffickers through.
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids by Meghan Daum

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informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this! Especially getting so many perspectives on the topic of being childfree. It was great to read multiple different people's experiences and how the choice had effected their lives. As someone who doesn't think she wants kids, it was a really important read for me I think to see how others felt about their choice as people that have officially suck with it, if you know what I mean
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

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challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

Phenomenal. I am a Haynes lover for life!