coolfoolmoon's Reviews (357)

The Great Divide

Cristina Henríquez

4.75

adventurous hopeful informative reflective 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 love love love love Latinx authors so much. I love the bouncing narratives. It's not written confusingly. I love the interconnectedness of the world so much, it's so real! I love the bits of future; it all ties so well together especially bc this is a historical story so we kinda sorta already know what's gonna happen, it's all just so beautiful!!! I loved every moment but especially Ada’s story. What a queen boss ass bitch love her down.

The only thing I didn't like was taking long to get back to the characters. Which isn't a flaw of the writing! It was great for the flow of the story! But still! I loved the characters so much I just wanted to keep their story going!

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Akwaeke Emezi

3.0

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

I know too much about someone I've never met.

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Little Rot

Akwaeke Emezi

2.75

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

I didn't like it. I don't have much else to say. Still love Emezi's canon. I also like to pay attention to timelines and this whole book takes place in about 32 hours that's pretty cool.

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Artemis in Echo Park: Poetry

Eloise Klein Healy

2.75

inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Wasn’t for me, no rhymes. Couple bangers. Extra points bc I love art about my city!

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

The three of them should’ve been locking lips and hunching all together and there would’ve been less conflict. They were all made for each other. Down with monogamy!

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The Cellar

Natasha Preston

2.25

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Could've been 150 pages shorter and been more effective. It isn't great, it can barely be considered good, but as a former Wattpad girlie I have to give praise to another Wattpad girlie who got traditionally published.

Room by Emma Donoghue was a better book.

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This Promised Land: A Novel

Robert Easton

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

There are so so so many books from white authors about Indigenous people. I'd read a book about that phenomenon. So far all the ones I've seen are really boring, which makes sense.

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Orlando

Virginia Woolf

1.75

challenging 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

That was so fucking boring. I put the audio on 4x speed and it still wasn't over fast enough. And it was so racist. If that's the greatest sapphic love letter the English language has to offer we've failed as a people.

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

2.75

challenging medium-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

That was terrifying! She's so very obviously has daddy issues (parent issues in general), abandonment issues, everything issues! She meets her boss for two minutes and suddenly she's in love? He says to her he's old enough to be her dad and they still "fall in love"??? No one told me this was a horror story! A cautionary tale to all young women! She's not even 20!!! Every girl should have an adventure when they're 19 but don't be locked down to a man in his 40s!!!! R U N

One thing I did kind of a little bit like was the many, many, many literature and bible references. Only because it made me realize what I think of now as brainrot has always existed. If they had phones they'd be obsessed with vine / tiktok / twitter / tumblr references. If all I had was books and gossip and the daily newspaper or whatever I'd be randomly making bible references too. We're not so different past humans and I, except I'm not racist. So actually we are different.

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She of the Mountains

Vivek Shraya

4.0

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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: Yes

The edition I read was published pre the author coming out, and I think it's so interesting and beautiful how so many people, so many women have their first instance of self love being in connection to the other women they love. That's so sweet.

The art reminds me of the corporate art wave happening rn. Maybe she was the trendsetter! :o

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