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Playground by Aron Beauregard

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

0.0

This is so fucking sick and twisted. Like please someone check this man’s computer. So, like a lot of people I was like « hold my fucking beer » when I saw that a lot said they couldn’t get pas page 40. Well I am a fucking dumb ass and I need to do more research before jumping on a book like this. But it’s not just page 40. It’s two whole chapter. 

So, in two chapter in a row we have: Rape, pedophilia, SA, Incest, someone masturbating with her mother’s shit, and the author (a man) describing a woman’s genitalia (and cum like he says) with all the words possible (even the worst ones). 
I saw some people say «but it helps to understand the characters». Spoiler: not it does not. It’s just for shock purposes. 
So yes, this is really bad. And there’s no warning for it. It just happens. 

There are some good things in this book, but they can’t make it up for all those things. Especially that the pedophilia part comes back later in the book. 

Also one of the character is an ex nazi, he’s one of the bad guy, but it looks like he was given forgiveness for his war crimes (okay I have to admit I kind of stopped reading the book with attention at this point). 

So yeah, an horrible book and plus it’s not well written. 

TW: Rape, Pedophilia, SA, Incest, Child abuse, Misogyny, Child death, Parent death, Gore, Murder, R-slur, Homophobia, Emotional and Physical abuse, Torture
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Pédés by Florent Manelli

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

WoW. Magnifique. Tant de voix et de sujets importants abordés. Un livre qui sera un best seller jespere. C’est beau, important, touchant, poignant, fort… bref tout ce qu’il faut 
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The nice house on the lake : tome 1 by James Tynion IV

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

4.0

J’ai surkiffé franchement. Je savais que je n’allais pas être déçu avec James Tynion IV. L’histoire est super intéressante, le mystère aussi. Il y a tout un cast de persos mec queer et des persos racisés, et une meuf trans et sans que ce soit le gros truc de l’histoire (ça doit gérer la fin du monde en même temps). C’est vraiment interessantX surtout avec les différentes timeline. 

Après j’avoue que dans le passé on voit beaucoup Norah pré-transition et son dead-name aussi. Je pense c’est le truc qui m’a vraiment fait tiquer, le deadname n’était pas obligatoire quand on la voyait au passé
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Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants [With Poster] by The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman

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slow-paced

1.0

Look. I am always in for a good fart/poop and sometimes even a « genital » part when it’s a good joke. But this book? Not funny. Okay maybe 2/3 jokes made me smiled or chuckled. But the author really loves genitals and that’s soooo awkward. And the poop/fart part is just gross. Also let’s not talk about the not so hidden homophobia. Oh and the fat shaming and the use of the r-slur. 

Anyway 😑
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The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp

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mysterious slow-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

2.0

This is not a good Babs/Oracle story. It would have been a good story with a whole other cast. Also, does batman and Robin really exist in this world? Because one of the character has a Robin plushie, but Ben has DC Comics posters. 
I liked the Color in the artwork, but god If I took a shot everytime a character said that they needed to be « fix » from their disability I would be in a comma right now. At least the characters learn to fight ableism and know that they don’t know to be fix. 
Also the plot-twist? You can see it coming from the beginning. 
Anyway I need a better story for my girl Barbara
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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Damn. Less than 300 pages and I went through a whole range of emotions. Shocked, surprised, amused, sad, scared, tensed… I really didn’t expected that and the ending???? Wow. Loved this book
Just wished they used the word lesbian a the beginning 
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Red hood souriez by Eddy Barrows, Chip Zdarsky

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

5.0

Jason. Mon fils, ma bataille. Il mérite une histoire comme ça avec Bruce. Une histoire où il évolue, lui et sa relation avec son père. Et les flash-back? Oof 😭
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Le Pont des âmes by Victoria Schwab

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

4.0

Un bon dernier tome qui tient ses promesses honnêtement. Un peu chiant les réf a HP, mais y en a moins que dans les tomes précédents. J’ai aussi beaucoup aimé qu’on voit plus Lara que dans le tome précédent. Vraiment un superbe personnage. Bref à bientôt pour un nouveau livre de V.E. Schwab 
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Galatea by Madeline Miller

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emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

I really liked this short story. It’s hard to read, but beautiful. A beautiful story about a mother who wants to save her daughter from her horrible husband. A story of how men just want beautiful, pure women who do what they say 
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Queer Life, Queer Love 2 by Matt Bates, Sarah Beal, Kate Beal

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emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

… so I had this arc via NetGalley so thank you. 
This is an anthology about queer love and queer life (duh). I really thought this would be about queer joy, because of the title… but haha nope there are stories that were hard to read, like stories about death, missed love stories,…
Not all the stories did it for me, and to be honest, a lot of the stories did not do it for me. Like there are some that were amazing, that made me feel so much. But not enough for me to give it 4 stars. Also, even if it’s a queer anthology trans women and transfem writers were clearly missing most of the time. It felt like a lot of men (cis and trans), and some non-binary people. 
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