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280 reviews

I don't know how a book of fairy and folk tales managed to be so dry and boring. A few of the stories were good, but most of them really didn't hit the mark for me. Also, a few of them were written in the dialect of a 19th century Irish peasant, which made this a slog to get through since I am not very familiar with that dialect

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.5

This was so sweet and wholesome and I really needed it.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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fast-paced

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

2.0

Was not a fan of the kidnapper to lover trope. I enjoyed the plot of the fantasy aspect, but Feyre annoyed me a lot as a character. I felt like the characters were not very well fleshed out

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram

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challenging informative reflective sad

4.25

I found this book very informative and thoughtful. It gives a renewed purpose to the importance of ecology and nature in my daily life. The prose of this book was often quite beautiful in terms of its philosophical depictions of nature, though the book itself did drag on at times when discussing a lot of the denser subject matter, such as the historical, philosophical, and linguistic basis for his beliefs

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mxpringle's reviews 280 reviews

mxpringle's reviews
280 reviews