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slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a historical piece of magical realism that focuses on identity, sacrifice and power in golden age Hollywood. Our main character takes on a persona to become a star and has to navigate difficult sacrifices as she tries to explore her own identity without losing herself to the studio.
dark
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a fun little horror about social class and privilege. The artwork is great. The story is such that if you pull at a thread, it falls apart a bit, but it helps itself by not over-explaining what is happening. The character is believable and fun with villains you love to hate.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Cannibalism
dark
This was a book that worked until the last 15% of the book. It tries to comment on socio-economic inequity but doesn't really say anything. The pattern of deaths remains unresolved and the main character doesn't even solve the mystery herself. It felt like it was really building to something and then all fell apart.
Disclaimer: I received a gifted finished copy from the publisher.
Disclaimer: I received a gifted finished copy from the publisher.
adventurous
This book is a fun sequel that is much more action packed than the first book, but feels like it’s more focused on the fighting than the relationships that were so vital to the first book. Definitely worth reading to finish the duology.
funny
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was such a fun read! Great humor, and interesting premise and characters that you can’t help but love. I mean you have to love your friends a lot to risk alien abduction!
This book has some excellent mental health and disability rep along with queer representation. See below:
Rep: Bisexual female MC that has anxiety and ADHD and uses mobility aid. Black lesbian, gender-fluid and nonbinary side characters.
This book has some excellent mental health and disability rep along with queer representation. See below:
Rep: Bisexual female MC that has anxiety and ADHD and uses mobility aid. Black lesbian, gender-fluid and nonbinary side characters.
dark
mysterious
This book is good but you can tell her newer books are more polished. The supernatural and romance elements are a bit heavy handed to the point that the story feels disjointed instead of flowing with the mystery. But overall it is interesting with a couple good plot twists.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Murder
Minor: Sexual assault
This was an easy YA urban fic with a big cast and a lot of action. I think the action scenes were pretty well done and some of my favorites in the book.
This book lays out overlapping plot lines and a large cast (5 MCs, 3 older supporting characters plus siblings and parents of the MCs which have their own personalities). I think it was a tiny bit too much for a rather short book and so there isn't as much development for any of the characters because they are almost always together and we are constantly switching between characters. The fantastical elements are rather simple, and presented as a straightforward mission to stop an evil character from acquiring the powers the MCs have acquired.
I read a lot of YA, but it seemed like the characters were all written very young. The MCs are juniors and seniors but read more like 7-8th graders and the younger siblings are middle schoolers (I think) but read as elementary age kids. The dialogue was a little jilted because of that.
Disclaimer: I received a free finished copy.
This book lays out overlapping plot lines and a large cast (5 MCs, 3 older supporting characters plus siblings and parents of the MCs which have their own personalities). I think it was a tiny bit too much for a rather short book and so there isn't as much development for any of the characters because they are almost always together and we are constantly switching between characters. The fantastical elements are rather simple, and presented as a straightforward mission to stop an evil character from acquiring the powers the MCs have acquired.
I read a lot of YA, but it seemed like the characters were all written very young. The MCs are juniors and seniors but read more like 7-8th graders and the younger siblings are middle schoolers (I think) but read as elementary age kids. The dialogue was a little jilted because of that.
Disclaimer: I received a free finished copy.
This is primarily a book about the fandom of One Direction disguised as a book about women’s history of online interaction. While this book does hit a lot of the basics of women’s contribution to internet culture, it misses many of the major websites, most of the major events and the large majority of fandoms are excluded, to make room for more stories about One Direction (many of them personal stories that don’t relate to the online concept much). It also relies primarily on direct anecdotes and some articles rather than actual research and statistics. If this book was honestly advertised as a 1D fandom book I likely would not have picked it up, which it seems the intention of the description/blurb was to bring in a wide audience by misrepresenting the premise.
adventurous
challenging
This book is basically a fantasy retelling of the end of Trujillo dictatorship and it is wonderfully written. The elements of Dominican folklore, a great adventure plot as well as a wonderful cast was fun to read. I think this is one of the few MG books where we see the effects of actual violence on the MC but it was very well done.