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Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Gun violence
Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Mass/school shootings
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Death of parent
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
How do you review a 830 page book that took your breath away? That's right, you don't. You just sing songs in it's praise.
Priory of the Orange Tree is one of the best multi-plot books I've read and I absolutely loved how every plot was connected and how beautifully it all came together in the end.
The entire politics and just the manner of how a queendom works is very well captured.
This book such incredibly written complex characters. I loved the strong female characters. How the characters react to different situations or how well do they manage their responsibilities is very realistic. I went from hating Sabran Berethnet to loving her and I there is no other character that I love and hate at the same time as I love and hate Niclays Roos.
This book contains a mixture of different myths and folklore and in my opinion, it does justice to them. The world building was incredible. I can say it was almost flawless. The differences between the East, West, South and North, magic working with nature, if was all so beautiful.
I also loved the diversity in the book but the best thing was the wlw and the mlm relationships. They were absolutely beautiful.
But Priory is not a book for the faint hearted. A lot of things that you don't want to happen will happen, characters you love will die and you will be introduced to a lot of gruesome subjects.
The book is definitely worth a read. Even though is a giant, you will not feel overwhelmed nor will you be bored while reading it.
Priory of the Orange Tree is one of the best multi-plot books I've read and I absolutely loved how every plot was connected and how beautifully it all came together in the end.
The entire politics and just the manner of how a queendom works is very well captured.
This book such incredibly written complex characters. I loved the strong female characters. How the characters react to different situations or how well do they manage their responsibilities is very realistic. I went from hating Sabran Berethnet to loving her and I there is no other character that I love and hate at the same time as I love and hate Niclays Roos.
This book contains a mixture of different myths and folklore and in my opinion, it does justice to them. The world building was incredible. I can say it was almost flawless. The differences between the East, West, South and North, magic working with nature, if was all so beautiful.
I also loved the diversity in the book but the best thing was the wlw and the mlm relationships. They were absolutely beautiful.
But Priory is not a book for the faint hearted. A lot of things that you don't want to happen will happen, characters you love will die and you will be introduced to a lot of gruesome subjects.
The book is definitely worth a read. Even though is a giant, you will not feel overwhelmed nor will you be bored while reading it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Infertility, and Panic attacks/disorders
When Love Came Calling by Preeti Shenoy
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
All Preeti Shenoy books have a similar pattern that I have come to recognise.
Boy and girl fall in love, something bad happens to one of them which results in their relationship to go downhill. One of them faces a lot of problems to get to them and they eventually get back together.
Even though this seems very cliché, it doesn't take away from the fact that she is a great writer. I've read two books by her and they are both impressive.
Her books have proper representation of problems in the society and also shows how you can cope with them.
Her writing is very expressive and you actually feel it when a character is going through a tough situation. This book even made me cry a little bit at times.
Her characters and situations are so real you actually have a conflict as to who is in the right and who is in the wrong.
More than being about love in romantic relationships, the book is also about love in a family. About how there is still a shimmer of hope in a broken family to become a happy family. How even an extremely flawed person can find their place in the world.
I do recommend Preeti Shenoy's books because even though they seem cliché, they are very real.
Boy and girl fall in love, something bad happens to one of them which results in their relationship to go downhill. One of them faces a lot of problems to get to them and they eventually get back together.
Even though this seems very cliché, it doesn't take away from the fact that she is a great writer. I've read two books by her and they are both impressive.
Her books have proper representation of problems in the society and also shows how you can cope with them.
Her writing is very expressive and you actually feel it when a character is going through a tough situation. This book even made me cry a little bit at times.
Her characters and situations are so real you actually have a conflict as to who is in the right and who is in the wrong.
More than being about love in romantic relationships, the book is also about love in a family. About how there is still a shimmer of hope in a broken family to become a happy family. How even an extremely flawed person can find their place in the world.
I do recommend Preeti Shenoy's books because even though they seem cliché, they are very real.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use