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329 reviews

Love this. It's like nothing I've ever read before. It took me a minute to get into, and was a bit hard to follow in places, but once you let it pull you in. You're on the train for good. It's as if a meet-cute met a sci-fi? Or something? I don't even know how to describe this one without giving too much away, but the description gives this book no justice. Just give this one a chance. I don't think you'll regret it.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Mac Crane

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challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.0

Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall

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challenging emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book was really hard to read, but so necessary, especially in this moment in time. The beginning especially, the seemingly small moments of indecision or hesitation that could have led to some larger moment of resistence or some larger crackdown. The author did an incredible job of feeling the joy in small moments while feeling guilty for the terrors the characters knew were happening just outside their bubble, even if they didn't know the extent. Those parts were perhaps even harder to read.

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

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adventurous funny sad tense medium-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

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

I would give Carla six stars for this book if I could. Ten? I listened to her read her story on hoopla, but I'm going to have to buy a physical copy so I can go back and underline and cry all over the pages. There were moments so vivid I had flashbacks to my own experience 15+ years ago, so similar, in too many ways to count. This wasn't some afterschool special. This was falling in love and out of love and feeling powerless and somehow, eventually, slowly, finding your power again, trusting yourself again, loving yourself, for once. I don't know that I could have read this book 15 years ago, but I wish that I had been able to read it before... Or maybe I wish that I had been able to reach across state lines back then, and find her, and that we could have shared our stories and gotten each other out sooner. Or maybe not. Maybe we couldn't get out until we could, until we did.

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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mamareadstuff's reviews 329 reviews

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329 reviews