chelseareads's Reviews (449)

Retour à Birkenau

Ginette Kolinka

5.0

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Les Impatientes

Djaïli Amadou Amal

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If I Had Your Face

Frances Cha

4.0

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious sad 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: Complicated

Remote Control

Nnedi Okorafor

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Jacaranda

Gaël Faye

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

Content Warnings

Usually I make myself go 30 pages before stopping, but I skipped around and didn't see any improvement later on.

The concept of the book sounded wonderful. The writing was abysmal. As others have stated, Gentles seriously needed an editor.

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.75

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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: Complicated

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

3.5

adventurous dark lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

2.5

funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The writing was enjoyable but the story was not.

Moi, Tituba sorcière...

Maryse Condé

3.0

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

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