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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

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the_bookish_rose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I binge-read this book in a day because it was super entertaining and the worldbuilding captured me. I don’t usually praise settings in a book, but this one did such a great job describing each location enough to where I could envision it without thinking too hard on it. It is a book with heavy topics so keep the warnings in mind, but I enjoyed the main character’s vitality and fierceness against the system around her. The plot was also well paced, and I loved the little cliffhanger it left off on, leaving me wanting more. I can’t wait to see where she goes next in the next book.

OH! And the ✨🏳️‍🌈 sapphic representation?? Chef’s kiss. It was built up well and I’m so glad they didn’t just have them together and then one is 💀- I loved it and as a sapphic, I fell in love with their relationship and hope to see it continue into the series.

If fantasy, female empowerment with sapphic flavoring are your favs in a book, please read Girls of Paper and Fire!

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runes_reads's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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ly_do's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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peach_haze's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I love the end but I wish the MC had started learning martial arts sooner, rather than literally right before the attack. She definitely felt OP when she beat her trainer even though she had only been sparring for a very short time. I also wish we could’ve seen her fall in love more. We knew they would become a couple but I feel like there could’ve been more chemistry.

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sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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cyannaslibrary's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

I loved this book! I couldn't stop reading and I stayed up all night to finish.

But this book has a reoccurring problem many books I’ve read have lately, a plain MC.

I genuinely could not remember a singular rememberable thing about Lei and her personality, she was more of an audience surrogate than a real main character to me.

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