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Multiversus: Collision Detected #1 by Bryan Q. Miller

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This is so funny! I'm so excited for the next one!
Praying with Jesus: Meditations on the Lord's Prayer by Michael Lodahl

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Prince of Frogs by Amberlyn Holland

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a good first/second installment! (I know this is book 1, but I honestly don't know how you'd follow along without reading Islyne's novella story first). The character development was good, especially for such a short book. 
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Pumpkin Spice and All Things Nice by Laura Greenwood

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hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-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

4.0

This was a cute story and I will definitely read the next one. Two things I didn't like though: it ends really quickly and suddenly, and the run on sentences made it *almost* unreadable. It such a fun concept that I will give the next one a chance 
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The Boy Wonder #5 by Juni Ba

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adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a great ending to the story!! I really loved it! There were some loose threads that weren't tied up, but that's ok. The overall storyarche was so beautiful and desperately needed right now 
Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter #3 by Riccardo Federici, Tom Taylor, Jay Kristoff

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mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Pretty good. I don't find Slade sympathetic but I'm glad Bruce is part of it now 
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The Iliad by Gareth Hinds

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was a really great rendition of the Iliad and I'd highly recommend it!! I wish he had focused a little more on the women's words (there are so few in the Iliad that it's worth knowing them), but I understand why he didn't. The only scene I really think he should have had and didn't was glaucus's speech on mankind being like leaves, as it's such an iconic speech 
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The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Such a great book for all families, even families without "explosive" kids. It's a perfect pairing for gentle parenting, even though those words aren't found in the book.

The one part I felt was lacking was how parents need to understand their own childhood wounds/trauma and help from that before they can truly do this well. He mentioned it in an off-hand way, but being on a healing journey myself, it's so imperative for every parent to reflect and heal (even if you had a good childhood!).
Autumn on Maple Tree Lane by C.P. Ward

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

3.0

This one was an odd one. It was really slow for one thing. Both the plot (a mystery at an old manor house) and character development (especially for Edith) happened quite late. But I did enjoy the descriptions of fall, and I cared about the characters.
The Little Book Café by Georgia Hill

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
The first chapter of Tash's story has huge red flags of relationship violence. I checked out reviews on here, and had to really scour them to find out that, yes, the story deals with abuse.

I really feel like this should be a higher trigger warning and am upset that users have not noted this consistently (only one person mentioned abuse).
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