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200 reviews

Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture by Alan Hess

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informative slow-paced

2.0

If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim

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

4.0

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design by Kristina Wilson

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informative slow-paced

3.0

Broadly speaking, conclusions seem on point. Some moments of gross supposition and reading far more into items than might generally be called reasonable imo.
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

There's a lot of shit to wade through for a few gold nuggets.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov

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informative reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No

5.0

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

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emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

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adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.25

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

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dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.25

What drugs were you on, Margaret? That was a fever dream. 

Also marketed as "an unforgettable love story" - this ain't a love story. There's no love here. It's possessiveness, emotional abuse, permanently immature EQs, men getting stuck on the idea of a woman and not even seeing the woman as a person, and a heaping serving of serious trigger warnings. There's no way the MC would have an actual love story, so this all is perfectly logical within the book but boy did the marketing team miss the mark.