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85 reviews
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
For what it is, I absolutely love it.
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
3.0
Nightbitch if it was a comedy. Good writing, kept me engaged throughout, hated Abby.
A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
Did not finish book. Stopped at 81%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 81%.
Realized I had been slogging through the last half just to finish it and nobody got time for that.
Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories by Michael Andreasen
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Miss Marple if she was hilarious and owned a tea shop. A great palette cleanser between heavy books.
The Deep by Nick Cutter
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Graphic animal cruelty, like all his books it seems.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Below by Ryan Lockwood
Did not finish book. Stopped at 31%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 31%.
"Cowboy"? More like creep.
The main character sucks as well as the juvenile dialogue, the bland plot and none of the characters that have died are set up in any way beforehand to make us care or fear for them except for the men in the beginning. Wrote in 2013 by a white boatshoe guy and it shows.
The main character sucks as well as the juvenile dialogue, the bland plot and none of the characters that have died are set up in any way beforehand to make us care or fear for them except for the men in the beginning. Wrote in 2013 by a white boatshoe guy and it shows.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death
The Deep by Alma Katsu
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
How can you write such a long book about doomed romance when the only good part was the queer side characters' relationship?
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
The writing was very well done with strong prose and an underlining metaphor for trauma, specificall military ptsd, maybe, but something about it didn't hit me in the same way as it has clearly hit for most other readers. It made me sufficiently sad, but left me feeling a little unsatisfied in some indescribable way.