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A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

adventurous dark emotional 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

“Darling, I would burn this world for you.”

“The first rule of men, Persephone, is that they’re all idiots.”

“I love you. Even if the Fates unraveled our destiny, I would find a way back to you.”

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

“As I could, I loved you.”

“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”

“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.”

Hooked by Emily McIntire

dark mysterious 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

3.5

“'You want to watch the world burn?"

"Let me guess, you'll set it on fire?" I ask.

He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me settling into my bones.

"No, darling. I'll hand you the match, and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.'"

“Darling, if I’m the dark, then you’re the stars.”

“The greatest thing I've ever done in my life was to love you, Wendy, darling.”

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

emotional informative sad 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

“Gaman. The ability to hold your pain and bitterness inside you and not let them destroy you. To make something beautiful through your anger, or with your anger, and neither erase it nor let it define you. To suffer. And to rage. And to persevere.”

“I want to believe in right and wrong. Here is what's right. Here is what isn't. Here is the line. Here is the question: If I go to war for America, if I kill for America, if I support an America that doesn't support me, and I supporting my oppressors? Am I killing their enemies so they can later kill me?”

“We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous.”

“We are not free. But we are not alone.”

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous emotional tense medium-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? No

4.0

“The friends they’d made were what mattered in the end. Not the enemies. Through love, all is possible.”

“You’re my home, Hunt. Our love spans across stars and worlds, remember?” She smiled slightly. “I’ll always find you.”

“I love you. I fell in love with you in the depths of my soul, and it’s my soul that will find yours again in the next life.”

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”

“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”

“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.”

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”

“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

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

“Our love is stronger than time, greater than any distance. Our love spans across stars and worlds. I will find you again, I promise.”

“But wherever you’re headed when this life is over, Quinlan, that’s where I want to be, too.”

“Death is the only victor in war.”

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”

“Wild birds die in cages.”

“It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God’s name.”

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.”

“An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?”

“As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”