tiller's reviews
75 reviews

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

emotional hopeful fast-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? Yes

Extremely sweet.

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

medium-paced

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

1.0

Genuinely bad. Hats on hats, no reason for the main character to be a werewolf, tropes, an awkward rushed ending. Two incredibly lovable characters and everyone else sucks. Mixed messaging where there is messaging at all. A bunch of half thoughts half explored. Confused metaphors.

Don’t read it, its a bad book.

The Future by Naomi Alderman

adventurous dark funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

Overwhelmingly depressing if you’re already the kind of person who fears global warming, ai, social media but it ends with hope

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

medium-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

1.5

The underlying adventure of this book is great but the book itself has no heart, the writing is terrible, everything feels so half-assed.

I know it’s for younger audiences but I read a lot of books for that age range and this is bad.

Watch the show instead 🤷

Heartsong by TJ Klune

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.5

I love these books. I will miss these characters so much when they’re done.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

it is absolutely insane to me that we have children read this every year

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.

Too much fat shaming for me.

This chapter might as well say the shamefully fat fat man fatted fattily across the room, his disgraceful fat disgustingly fatting around his fatness.

A bummer because I am enjoying and intrigued by the narrative structure but Christ I don’t have to put up with this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

First time. Even having figured out what was going to happen it still fully broke me.

Ravensong by TJ Klune

adventurous emotional funny 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

Pack and pack and pack
This book isn’t good in a lot of technical senses but I loved it very very much and I promise you I’ll read it again and dream of a love that’s dirt and rain and leaves 😭😭😭😭

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

The back quarter brought it to a 4- and may just have pulled me in enough to read a squeakuel