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Cinder by Marissa Meyer

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

I did not realise that this was a series going into it

Well I guess I’ve got a new thing to waste my money on

حكاية الطفلة الضائعة by معاوية عبد المجيد, Elena Ferrante

emotional sad tense slow-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

5.0

سلسلة نابولي هي احدى تلك الكتب التي تبقيك يقضًا حتى اخر الليل، تفكر فيها فقط، تلك الكتب التي بعد ان تنتهي من قراتها، تحدق في الجدران تحاول ان تهدأ احاسيسك الهائجة.
هذي الكتب هي الادب، هي التي جعلتني افتخر كوني قارئة، هي التي تغير حياتك.

الغريب by محمد غطاس, Albert Camus, ألبير كامو

dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

The most I can say about this is…
It’s absurd 

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.5

The girls had been dead since the beginning and yet I still cried by the end, left in emptiness so deep I can’t see the bottom.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

It’s okay, it’s slow and boring and sometimes things happen and I understand absolutely nothing 
I think maybe as a play it would be more fun and intriguing

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.

I dropped it, ok?

I couldn’t finish it, it dragged on for so fucking long it gave me reading block, there is nothing exciting, the same points are being brought up over and over again. And the most exciting part of the story,

 the Cike just got disbanded like that, in the most boring way possible.

I usually don’t drop books in the hopes that they would get better eventually but this time it didn’t work.

رائحة الخفاش by تساو ون شوان

emotional sad fast-paced

3.0

قصة قصيرة لطيفة، مناسبة أكثر للأطفال، من الممكن أن تكون مملة قليلًا للبالغين لكنها ما زالت جيدة.

يستكشف الكاتب تساو ون شوان مشاعر الطفل حول فقدان أمه، وتأثير هذا الحدث على حياته اليومية وتأثيره على مجتمعه وقريته، ونأخذ نظرة قريبة عن علاقته مع أبيه وتطورها.

كتاب خفيف وجميل.

الفقراء by Fyodor Dostoevsky

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

"يا يمامتي، يا بنيتي، يا ماتوشكا…"

يذهب بنا دوستوفيسكي مرة اخرى عبر رواياته إلى فقراء ومضطهدين بطرسبرج، ويشع الضوء على حياة الكثير من اللذين لا تهتم معضم الروايات (خصوصًا في ذلك الزمان) أن تقص قصصهم.

الرواية مملة قليلًا، ويمتد وصف شعور واحد لعدة صفحات، ولكن بشكل عام الرواية جيدة.

الهاربون والباقون by Elena Ferrante

emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Brilliant, amazing, spectacular 
It was plot twist after plot twist, and I never got bored, and god! The DRAMA
Just amazing 
What you would always expect from Elena Ferrante 

لحظة تاريخ by محمد المنسي قنديل

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

طريقة السرد رائعة، لكنه كان ممل في بعض الاحيان