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A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

In the past, I haven't been as taken with Miss Marple as with Poirot, but I quite enjoyed this one. The mystery was also very good - extremely twisty but wrapped up neatly by the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Infidelity, Death, Drug use, Murder, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Medical content

Minor: Blood, Stalking, and Terminal illness

The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

Starts extremely slowly and (the version I read, book one of the four-book edition) cuts off right in the middle of things such that you're going to want to move straight on to Ten Years Later, but d'Artagnan is still a fun protagonist and once the book gets around to focusing on him it's very entertaining.

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

dark funny hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

A quick, easy read. Not a lot to it, but decently entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Death, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

This has the vibe of a mystery but without any actual mystery. There's no big revelation or twist. I kept expecting there to be one but there wasn't. At one point I thought maybe Merricat was a ghost but she's not. I got to the end of the book and thought "That's it? Everything was exactly as it seemed?"

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

Let me save you the time: The big reveal is that

the aliens are here to help us turn into magic space gods.

Answering the question "what if aliens showed up and helped us solve all our problems and live our best lives" with "that would be pretty good, I guess." OK. I guess it would.

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is ok, I guess, but I don't get the hype. The characters aren't very interesting and not much happens, but it's not a chore to read or anything. It's fine.

The Lost Sister by Russel D. McLean

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

I didn't hate this book, but I didn't really like it either. I had hoped it would be better than the first one but it's just more of the same. There's no real mystery and the climax is very weak.

The worst thing about the book though, is the way one character persistently and far-too-frequently calls the protagonist "Steed". It's in every other sentence she speaks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, Death, Grief, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Self harm, Car accident, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Rape, and Pregnancy

Harry Potter and the Save-or-Die by Sir Poley
Did not finish book.

Serialised fiction that the author stopped writing (or at least posting). I was enjoying it, but it's been so long now I'm unlikely to ever go back to it even if he does start posting again.

Flight #008 by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Brenda Cooper, Nancy Kress, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Catherine Asaro, Hugh Howey, Hal Y. Zhang, Bud Sparhawk, Bruce Sterling, Eileen Gunn, Aidan J.S. Menuge, Chen Qiufan, Justina Robson, Daniel H. Wilson, Karl Schroeder, Gregory Benford, Mike Resnick, James L. Cambias, Margaret Atwood, William Shunn, Madeline Ashby, Charlie Jane Anders, Hannu Rajaniemi, Peter Watts, Sheila Finch, James Morrow, Kathryn Cramer, Mike Barretta, Charles Yu, Matt Hill, James Smythe, Kevin J. Anderson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Lee Konstantinou
Did not finish book.

I stopped reading these for a while and when I went back the website was gone. I remember the ones I read being largely ok though.

Ghosts of Saltmarsh by Mike Mearls
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.

As far as D&D adventures go, it's fine. I just stopped running D&D.