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328 reviews

adventurous funny sad

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Not much plot, and uneven pacing. A lot of missed opportunities for really good conversations. I did like the portrayal of transness, and the discussions about police brutality (although I felt like it was a bit glossed over and could have been much more prominent in the narrative). Too tropey for me personally, but if you like fated mates, knife to the throat, only one bed, etc - this might be a good book for you.

Content Warnings

The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish

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emotional

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Message Not Found by Dante Medema

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emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

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challenging informative inspiring

5.0

This is such a concise, comprehensive and practical guide to forming collective action and mutual aid networks. The last chapter is especially important; it helped me identify some things I need to work on in myself and gave me clear steps to do so. I love how accessible the author made the book - it’s not hard to understand or too verbose to easily digest.

Omen of Ice by Jus Accardo

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Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Super tropey. Romance was trash, which really sucks because I normally love bodyguard romances and this made me hate it. There was almost no plot aside from the “big reveal” at the end which I guessed correctly about 10% in. Main characters were annoying. Literally the only things I liked about this were the cover and the kelpie character who isn’t present nearly enough imo. The world is very under developed (Valen is supposedly warring with being the “omen” mentioned in the title but the author never explains what that is; they don’t have guns or plumbing but they know what adrenaline is; they have an alternate word for fucking called “brashing” despite also using the word “fuck” in the text; etc).

Gravity Falls: Journal 3 by Rob Renzetti, Alex Hirsch

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adventurous emotional funny reflective