Reviews by blarn6102336 | The StoryGraph

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blarn6102336

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Samra Habib

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson

4.0

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Post-Traumatic

Chantal V. Johnson

4.0

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Don't Cry for Me

Daniel Black

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

4.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Slade House

David Mitchell

3.5

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

all the main characters just fell so flat i couldn’t connect to any of them and ava was just so annoying a very boring read but good enough that i genuinely needed to finish the book because i wanted ava to make the right choices

All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews

3.5

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

5.0

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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

so raw and honest the writing alone is just hypnotizing it’s so easy to just get lost in the storytelling caleb azumah nelson’s words are just a punch to my heart but in the best way

My Education

Susan Choi

4.25

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

“this was too much to allow her to tell me, when her mouth at that moment was so crucial to my survival that i fell onto it as if drowning, and determined to drain her last breath, even if this consigned her to drowning as well— she might not have been able to handle me if my aggression had not been as frantic and disorganized as hers was efficient. once again i was wringing the front of her shirt— my hands were abruptly afraid of her skin, so that i wanted to crush her to me without having to touch her; i would have liked a single rope to bind us together, with tightly stacked coils, so that we formed a sort of siamese mummy within which our bodies got mashed into one..” (76)

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