amyayeme's reviews
86 reviews

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

4.0

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

2.0

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

challenging slow-paced

1.0

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

It's fine.

Don't get me wrong, Sixx has a fantastic writing style, and the variable pacing across the book is enjoyable. But I feel like the message provided (I.e. everything is beautiful), isn't unique and the reader isn't given a new slant on it. It's fine, but not much more than that. 

Balance by

fast-paced

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Keisha the Sket by Jade LB

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

A 2005 wattpad story about the highly sexualised (and sexual) Keisha - The Sket of Hackney. 
The book has been cited as a linguistic first, as it is the first instance of a text completely printed in Multicultural London English (I.e "skn" for "understood", "gwan" for go on, "yard" for house - you get the memo). I definitely agree, and feel that it's a true commemorative piece of teen culture and communication.

The original story is followed by a re-written (and, thankfully for me, less graphic) version that was created by the author more recently. It maintains the sense of youth of the original, but ties up previously left lose ends and downplays some overly exaggerated aspects of the original. For example, a teen marriage is replaced with a reminder that the couple is in love. 

I do wish that Keisha the Sket was something that I was familiar with as a young person, but I think I just missed it! However, it was still strangely nostalgic 

I give it a 4.25 for being such a leading text and for what it means, but I don't think it's particularly re-readable for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Rape, and Sexual content