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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Jamison Shea

3.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

They say don't judge a book by its cover. Shame on me.

With a title like this I expected more. I was bored for a lot of it but didn't dnf because I was waiting on the hot monster. And I got a hot monster so I wasn't upset. I bought this from Target and I would've rather rented it from the library. But its mine now and I wrote all over it with a buncha hearts! I love when Black girls !!!!! And fuck it I’ll buy the sequel too!

The main issue is that she's a Black girl, an everyday person from America, trying to fit in in racist ass upper class France. Like I wanted to reach into the book and yell at her girl it's never gonna happen!!! Not that that's her fault but that's literally the only conflict. Notice how her life got better when she got a Black bestie? Yeah exactly.

Also the voice actress for the audio book Kristolyn Lloyd was so amazing I looked her up to see what else she's done. I'm so happy she's gonna read the sequel too! She gave so much life to the characters and the narration! Ugh! Finally some good fucking food! 5 stars for Kristolyn Lloyd!

Content Warnings

The Taking of Jake Livingston

Ryan Douglass

4.25

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

At first I was like boo I’m not gonna have sympathy for the school shooter but then the writing is good enough that I did except I like that the school shooter had the awareness to know he was wrong. Love when characters are aware of their delusions. Love the parallels of the characters. Or maybe I’m thinking of the term foils. Anyway, I loved it so much. I’ll be reading whatever Douglass does next.

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Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

4.25

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Manic pixie dream Stargirl. Another story that only works because the kids are all white. Still, I got a lot of goosebumps. I too am that autistic girl who just doesn't understand society.

Content Warnings

Miss Quinces

Kat Fajardo

4.0

funny

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 giggled aplenty.

Content Warnings

La Ladroncita

Natalia Hernandez

3.5

adventurous sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Read this attached to my version of The Name Bearer but logged separately bc the short story should have a different rating.

All the besties better have backstories! It was okay, just a lil more info about the character. Nothing spectacular.

Content Warnings

The Name-Bearer

Natalia Hernandez

3.75

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I didn't like the ending. It’s like the season of a show ended in the middle of an episode instead of at the end, but its okay bc we know it got greenlit for more seasons. I had an adequate amount of fun.

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Scar Island

Dan Gemeinhart

3.25

dark sad fast-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

A story that only works because all / the majority of kids are white. Book takes place in 6 days.

Content Warnings

The Islander: A Novel

Cynthia Rylant

2.0

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Would've been a fine story until the age gap relationship at the end. Yuck!

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The Henna Wars

Adiba Jaigirdar

4.75

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Adiba Jaigirdar, the woman that you are! And then I find out the art was done by Nabigal!!! 🥰 The characters felt younger than 16 but everything still works no matter the age!

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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

S.A. Chakraborty

4.5

adventurous funny informative 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

Raksh my love come home the kids miss you

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