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challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
"I think this is important to note, because accounts about Bundy and his victims often included a bit of criticism for the girl or young woman as if she should have been smarter in the situation. These stories were written decades after the fact, often by a man, and I think they are designed to make the reader feel safe—as if what happened to all these teenage girls and women couldn’t happen to them too."
I live for all the shit she talked about Bundy in her memoir. Kathy was victimized by him, but her truly impressive sense of self was readily apparent throughout this whole memoir. Her son didn't know the full circumstances until he was well into adulthood, which I think shows great deal about the work she did to help herself with this trauma:
"It’s not to say that these things didn’t haunt me, because they did. I just stopped them from haunting my son’s childhood."
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-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
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-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
I love Emery and John-Henry together but!!! It's so frustrating to see them talk past each other (and unfortunately so realistic). Emery needs to let go of Nico or I'm gonna combust - sorry kid, he's meant for a much more traumatized man.
fast-paced
MC extremely OP and the love interest is not written like an idiot.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Epitome of the "crack treated seriously" tag - ML was a super soldier who was mysteriously turned into a fork in 1945 - FL buys him (and potentially his fellow soldiers) as a silverware set in an estate sale. They fall in love. She masturbates using fork-him to turn him back. Just normal things.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Enemies to lovers where? Character development where? Plotlines where? The dialogue often gave me the ick.
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hazard and Somers are so toxic to one another because they can't talk AND emotionally regulate at the same time. Nico, baby, just leave - he's never gonna want you the way he wants Somers (and I want him to have Somers).
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely no one is rooting for Hazard and Nico, sorry bud. I'm sure you're a very nice young man, but I need my tortured main character to be with his equal tortured partner.
While I am a sucker for literally every trope listed here, I can't get over how important the singing is and how nice the other ML is. 🥱
Boring.
Boring.