spines_with_steph's Reviews (559)

A Mouth Full of Salt

Reem Gaafar

4.0

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Womb City

Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.5

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Blue Light Hours

Bruna Dantas Lobato

5.0

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Silence Is a Sense

Layla AlAmmar

3.5

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

In Every Mirror She's Black

Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström

4.0

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

The Burning God

R.F. Kuang

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.0

challenging hopeful reflective fast-paced

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Anne Helen Petersen

4.5

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.5

mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes