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123 reviews

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

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emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated

4.5

Sally Rooney haters, congratulations on never having to think about your noradrenaline receptors
A Strange Hymn by Laura Thalassa

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Did not finish book.
Tesco-value Rhysand lol
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
Don’t go to grad school, kids 
One Of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

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dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

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challenging emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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

3.5

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings

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challenging dark emotional fast-paced
Absolutely harrowing, you should be scared how close these people are to running the country

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The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

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challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.0

Very thoughtful and well-done, wish there was more closure on some of the featured characters, basically if a book is featured on QAA it’s worth reading
The Silence Project by Carole Hailey

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dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Make Daisy Jones atone for its f*cking crimes because the fake-nostalgia genre is destroying good books from within
Dune by Frank Herbert

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

world’s worst boy mom starts holy war (not clickbait!)