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293 reviews

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Homophobia, Suicide, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and War

Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

slow-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

1.0

HOW do you take these concepts and write something as boring as this. also genuinely some of the weakest prose I've ever read, please god combine some of those clauses

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Gore, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicide, Trafficking, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Rape, and Excrement

Animal attacks. Climate crisis, extinction.

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

The Sleepless by Victor Manibo

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, and Alcohol

Memory loss. Discrimination against and supremacist attitudes within an in-universe faction.

Borderline by Mishell Baker

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Minor: Racial slurs, Suicide, Torture, Excrement, and Death of parent

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

1.0

again the issue might really just be that I'm a hater but there is something wrong if rape threats are making me roll my eyes. bad writing, unclear worldbuilding, flat characters, terrible love square that overwhelms the actual (thin in and of itself) main plot, sexual violence as a constant random unaddressed plot device given nowhere near its appropriate weight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Rape, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Abandonment

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.25

maybe I really am just a hater with too high standards because I kept waiting for it to click and it never did :-/ interesting plot and world, but weak technical writing and half from the perspective of a pretty much insufferable space cop

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, and Kidnapping