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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

challenging dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Listen, when I first finished it I was like "uh no big deal actually"

but then it has been the third day that I think about it every 15 minutes because all of the questions it has bought in me and in relation to more than the book... something deep in me, Ellison executing a weird lovecraftian existential dread sci-fi ver. so perfectly.

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde

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informative reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

The actual idea is great. My main problem about this book is that if I wouldn’t read it for university and deeply analyse it, I may have not even caught the point. The execution is bad for many reasons but to narrow them down, we read a character driven plot where characters aren’t even that important ? They don’t really evolve they don’t seem to think until the plot needs it somehow. Cute book otherwise.

Quitter Paris by Stéphanie Arc

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lighthearted reflective fast-paced

1.0

She enjoys talking to say nothing like 90% of the book. Philosophically deep for a 9 years old.

Hill by Jean Giono

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challenging reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

I don't know between my rating and 4⭐... Tbh I am so confused, what did I juste read lmao. I hope my classes will make it clearer to me the beauty of the book, because I feel that I just can't grasp everything of it.

L.U.N.A “L'hiver fantôme” by Anthony Vignals

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adventurous funny tense medium-paced

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

3.25

The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green

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medium-paced

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

0.25

I wish i could just put a straight -1/10. Idk if it is the french translation but god the pacing is BAD. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU GIVE A GOAL TO ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTER AT THE END OF THE BOOK?????? LITERALLY THE LAST LINES !€?*!#) Ambrose pov is useless and March and Edyon felt pushed like thé main character at the start because they we're thé only that actually made sense. Their motivations EXISTED. Tash pov is well done tho. Anyway this was almost the worst read ever. I would be ANGRY with my editors for publishing this lmao. Thanks to my boys Edyon and March that made this torture a little tiny bit better. If the books were only them DAMN this would've been a good book since the premise doesn't suck.

To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

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dark funny fast-paced