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The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

“Wounded male pride has caused the world more destruction than the Black Death and the Great Flood put together.”

“Every creature has a soft underbelly. I'm going to find yours."
"Search me if you like, Your Ladyship. I warn you, it's not softness you'll find.”

“Did you just compare me to a dog?” “I know, I’m not certain you deserve the compliment, either.”

The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

“I read you like you were my favorite book, Rosie. Like I’ve memorized you.”

“Remember to pick the boy that will plant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers.”

“Everything I didn't believe of myself, everything I couldn't possibly think you saw in me, was there. I saw myself through your eyes. You loved me.”

Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability by Summer Michaud-Skog

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

“Teachers, instructors, and coaches didn’t support me. When we took the presidential fitness test, the entire class would be changed out of their gym clothes and gossiping before I finished running the mile. It was easier for me to give up and say that sports weren’t for me than to fight the system that kept telling me the way I looked and the way I performed would never be good enough. No one seems to care if you ran your personal best if you’re the last in your class.”

“The only mirrors in the outdoors are the ones that self-reflect.”

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

adventurous emotional tense medium-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? No

4.0

“Write me a story where there is no ending, Kitt. Write to me and fill my empty spaces.”

“I would love to see you burn with splendor. I would love to see your words catch fire with mine.”

“Their souls weren’t mirrors but complements, constellations that burned side by side.”

The Score by Elle Kennedy

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

“I do what I want, when I want. And I don’t give a shit what people think about me.”

“All my senses are filled with her—her sounds, her smell, her touch. Her.”

“I think it takes a certain level of trust to sit next to someone and not feel the pressing urge to babble away.”

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

emotional funny lighthearted 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

“I think just because you can't keep something doesn't mean it wasn't worth it. Nothing lasts forever. What matters is what we take with us.”

“You can't make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That's the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”

“I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it - whatever it was and then making yourself follow through.”

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

adventurous emotional tense medium-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? No

5.0

“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”

“I don't think you realize how strong you are, because sometimes strenght isn't swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it's found in quiet, gentle places.”

“In the meantime, I hope you will find your place, wherever you are. Even in the silence, I hope you will find the words you need to share.”

A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

3.5

“We are all broken, Persophone. It's what we do with the pieces that matters.

“Grief means we loved fiercely…and if that is all anyone ever has to say about either one of us in the end, I think we lived our best life.”

“Oh, darling, but I have told you before—for you, I would destroy this world.”

Hang The Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

“Since when is love supposed to be convenient?”

“The way I see it, you can’t rush something you want to last forever.”

“He looks at you like you hung the moon.”

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

4.5

“I won't let your ignorance silence my pain.”

“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.”

“Reality told us we would fail. But again and again, we fought. We perserved. We rose.”