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Ward D by Freida McFadden

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

What an ending!! Woah! 

It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

challenging emotional hopeful tense 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

4.5

Not quite as good as It Ends with Us, but pretty close.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams

sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This was just overall completely disappointing. I did not like the writing style. It was very bland. I kept waiting for something to happen, and I kept getting disappointed because it never did. Never got used to the disappointment.

Flawed by Andrea Dorfman

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

3.5

A cute and quick read! Love the premise. Accept all of who you are because you’re a work of art.

The Devil Wears Scrubs by Freida McFadden

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

Definitely not your typical Frieda book. It was an insult to women and doctors. It said it was a short, comedic novel; while it was short, it wasn’t funny. It was full of women being nasty to one another, malpractice, and feeding into the dumb woman narrative. 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

2.0

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

adventurous lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

A fun, quick read

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was beautiful. 

A bit over my head, but still beautiful.

So sad, yet so hopeful. A story of a doctor who became a lung cancer victim. 

There was an in there about science versus religion that I’m going to have to go back and re-read because I don’t think I agreed with it at all. However, it was another of those great reads that gave me lots to think about.

Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope by Mark Manson

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Very thoughtful and thought-provoking! 

We are always in a constant struggle between our thinking brain and our feeling brain. I feel that. 

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Wow. Just wow.

I knew the book said it would be unlike any other Holocaust story ever told, but I didn’t believe it until I finished it. Man, oh, man, what a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking and hopeful story of a boy and his father. Just beautiful and accurate and wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder