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220 reviews

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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

5.0

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

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emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

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dark emotional reflective 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? No

4.0

Bared to You by Sylvia Day

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challenging funny fast-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

0.0

Shame on everyone supporting this kind of books what in the misogynistic rape culture shit was this. Also the sex scenes are so bad please “my cleft” “his thick length” and “my sensitive rosette” sent me deeper into the hell I was already at reading this crap
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

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emotional informative reflective sad 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

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Circe by Madeline Miller

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emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

3.5

It just didn’t really hold my attention after the first 60% or smth
In Memoriam by Alice Winn

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

5.0

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

Honestly didn’t read the logotherapy part. Did think the psychological evaluation of how he experienced Auschwitz was interesting, but felt incomplete and somehow felt like lacking some other perspectives in order to call it a psychological evaluation. 
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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

4.75

Als enige minpunt dat ik hem iets te traag vond, vooral in het begin-midden, maar verder echt een heel goede