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76 reviews

For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing

2.5

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

3.5

The Days of Abandonment: Elena Ferrante by Elena Ferrante

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

The raw emotions are captured here so brilliantly. 10/10 female rage.

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

challenging dark slow-paced

3.5

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

3.5

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

5.0

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

5.0

Gods And Ends by Lindsay Pereira

dark reflective medium-paced

4.0

Somehow it comes to a full circle.

The Squabble by Nikolai Gogol

reflective medium-paced

5.0

A collection of short stories, deriving from ordinary incidents but written out in a magnificent prose.

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0