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162 reviews

The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.0

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.0

Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

I found the characters mildly infuriating.

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

emotional reflective 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

5.0

I highly recommend this book. It shows the Palestinian struggle through multiple generations of the same family, starting just before the 1948 Nakba.  The book focuses a lot on emotions and how the characters experience certain events rather than just facts, which I think helps in making it feel more real. While the main focus is on the Palestinian perspective, there are also different Jewish perspectives shown.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Grief, and War

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.

just not the vibe rn (i do wanna come back tho)

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.5

I liked the writing style and how the book switched between past and present, kind of like in The Kingkiller Chronicles where the story is actually being told by the main character from the present to someone else.

There were some plot twists towards the end that were really good (I was shook) and then some that felt pretty off and didn't really make sense to me. Generally I also felt like there were too many plot points that often got left aside for a while even though they were said to be really important. I think there were just too many things going on that didn't really have enough space and it would have been better if it were reduced a bit.