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118 reviews

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

Sansa remains the best. Dany grows on you when you remember this is a game of chose your favorite war criminal. RIP to the icon Shae. Girlbossed to close to the sun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Ableism, Blood, Death, and Incest

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.75

George’s writing is pretty clunky in the beginning but you find the grove of it. 
It’s slower than you’d expect but extremely readable. Id suggest this to anyone wanting to get into fantasy because it’s such an easy read. 

Sweet Sansa is my favorite. Daenerys is the definition of gaslight gatekeep girlboss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Miscarriage, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Blood, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Incest, and Sexual violence

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

4.0

super disturbing but with a happy ending (question mark?)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Outing, Suicide, Medical trauma, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Torture, Transphobia, Child death, Child abuse, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Car accident

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Moshfegh has a real problem with fatphobia and her problem with fat people. This book (of what I’ve read) is by far her most interesting but you just can’t read anything without being hit over the head with how much she doesn’t like fat people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fatphobia, and Animal death

Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.75

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

fast-paced

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

4.75

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Excrement, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Grief, Rape, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia, Gun violence, and Misogyny

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is about 40 pages too long. And what I mean is the 40 pages where f*g is splattered across the page should have been heavily edited. Also, shoehorned racism and an unnecessary drop of the hard r n-word. 

Moshfegh is a gifted writer, the last hundred pages reflect this, but I haven’t come  across such an ‘edgy’ woman in a very long time. “Oh, she’s raw, she tells it like it is,” can happen without the flippant use of slurs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Addiction, Racism, Alcohol, Blood, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems by Louise Glück

reflective fast-paced

5.0