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Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

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adventurous emotional lighthearted relaxing slow-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

4.0

If a DnD shopping session and a slice of life anime centred around food had a baby, this would be it. 

Also the audiobook is as fantastic as everyone says it is!
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

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adventurous emotional sad tense slow-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

4.0

You need to read this just to experience the audacity of the world building.  The scope was insane. 
While the character work did leave something left to be desired, I still enjoyed reading about these characters and I’m very interested in seeing how they turn out in book 2. 
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

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adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

Fast paced, action packed and genuinely very funny and quotable. 
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

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emotional lighthearted sad fast-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

3.5

I really wanted to love this book and maybe if was able to read it over a shorter period of time and minded the corny banter a little less, I probably would have. 
I think it’s important to know that this won’t read like a typical romance novel, it has a strong focus on grief and learning how to live with it. And to be honest I wish it focused a little more on the couple because I wanted more of them. They felt right for each other but overall did not have enough page time for me personally. 
I still highly recommend this because it was still an enjoyable read. 
Bleach, Volume 59 by Tite Kubo

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emotional informative tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

Bleach, Volume 58 by Tite Kubo

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emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

Is there a lot of plot amour? Yes. But am I that mad about it? No, because all of my favourites are still alive 
Bleach, Volume 57 by Tite Kubo

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tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

I know that the big bad isn’t going to be taken out by the general because then we we wouldn’t have the rest of the story😂 but I mean the way they are depicting Ichigo as this one and only saviour feel like the author is taking away everything that was built with the other characters powers and abilities. But I mean we’ll see how we go. 
Bleach, Volume 56 by Tite Kubo

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tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

The stakes feel a lot higher in this arc already compared to the others. 
Bleach, Volume 55 by Tite Kubo

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

Bleach, Vol. 54: Goodbye to Our Xcution by Tite Kubo

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emotional sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

Um. This arc was fine. There was some good stuff within and overall it was enjoyable but the characters introduced don’t have any impact on the main story.  They felt like filler which is quite sad because more character development could have been achieved with these characters. They definitely had the potential.  The idea of the former deputy soul reaper was actually quite an interesting concept.
Overall this arc was both too long and too short for what it was trying to achieve.