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66 reviews

Severance by Ling Ma

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

5.0

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

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

3.5

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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challenging emotional medium-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

4.5

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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challenging dark 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? Yes

3.75

Wtf
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
My kindle subscription ran out 
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley

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

3.0

White people be writing about japan 
Jew(ish): A Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea by Matt Greene

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informative inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.0

Really enjoyed this, a bit annoyed that he snagged this title i would have used it tbh 
Cows by Matthew Stokoe

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Did not finish book.
Grossed me out for an entire day after 30 mins of reading. Simply cannot continue 
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Will be on my mind for a very long time. Will deffo watch the series! 
The Girls Are All So Nice Here by L.E. Flynn

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

3.25

Entertaining but not original. Another dark academia/evil teenage girl novel