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Because of Love

D. Rose

4.0

funny 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

Nina is very much a reactor and mecca is a good guy. It was interesting to read because the problems happening were so preventable. But im glad it got a happy ending and the playlist was cute a little mature for young characters more resembling the authors taste which is realistic and nice. Learned a lot about Houston music and scene.

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The Book at the Bar

Kirahvi Bello

4.75

funny lighthearted fast-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

Very short & very spicy. I enjoyed this book loads. Some parts were kind of perpetuating stereotypical assumptions of bisexuality specifically to me in regards to cleanliness cooking kindness etc when it could very well just be that persons behavior. Also assuming no one wants a baby gay is Ludacris and depends on the person because we all start out as baby gays so it could just be how you approach the situation. The arguments were laughable and not that serious but due to both characters anxiety issues makes sense how they jump the gun many many times. The smut was 10/10. The soundtrack was great but should be easier to find on spotify. With some grammatical and spelling issues for a first book the author did pretty well. Would be good to see the next books be about the grant family love stories to answer some questions and get some frustrations out of Caroline lol. I was shocked about the three some because they are so close but its a story & to each their own sexuality is fluid and experimentation is natural.

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Realm United

Katie Keridan

5.0

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring fast-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 this trilogy. I am so happy that everything this book needed to be happily ever after happened. I got queer love. I got a little sex. I got victory. What more could I ask for? I can't wait to interview Katie on pub day October 8th. We have much to discuss!!!

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Maddalena and the Dark

Julia Fine

3.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don't like queer trauma tropes. Selfish and anger is the main character without the violin

Karaoke Queen

Dominic Lim

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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: Complicated

I enjoyed this book so much. It made me laugh and gush. I'm so happy with who he ended up with. Its important representation all around. The supportive family really touched my heart. Full circle moments after years of it all was something else. The many song references and I created a playlist. Also made fish adobo and it was delicious. My 2nd time eating filipino food. Karaoke queen has it all food, queer, music, drama, & lots of healing.

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Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf

Deke Moulton

4.75

emotional informative inspiring reflective 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

I did not meet anyone Jewish until I became an adult and have any Jewish friends. I learned a lot in this book. I also felt like the parallels in Chinese history were important. This books was an important read in culture mental health and identity.

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Where Your Eyes Linger

Dani M. Ward

3.75

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The story was too trauma filled for me. It felt like the character kept making so many preventable choices and mistakes. A lot of things could have been solved by Veronika or the demon neighbor. There were three scenes in reference to queer people that was off to me and I did not like much. The smut was ok didnt really do much for me. Felt like there was a lot of filler towards the end when it was obvious she would end up with him.

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The dark road

Kathleen Rhodes

3.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I was sent this arc by the publishing company for my honest review. In the beginning the story was slow. Full of dark imagery ptsd situations and sadness. The four pov and splitting the book into parts was not hard to follow. But with all the characters story etc in the end felt like the last few chapters had some filler. Overall a sad interesting story that still had moments that needed explaining or confused me in relation to the characters trauma. Also who is Chuck? I know he is one of the doctors but which one i feel like so much happened and with the main like 5 characters with all the minor characters. A good first attempt with room for improvement. As a nurse I see how the author put their career experience in the medical content.

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Darius the Great Deserves Better

Adib Khorram

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring 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: Complicated

This duology has me so emotional and teary. I have never reached this way about a book. I feel like I learned so much about persian culture the different religions farsi Iran food tea loss communication. This has become my absolute favorite book series and auto read author. Thank you for being so authentic in this work. As a daughter or immigrants black queer cis woman wow just wow

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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: Complicated

I feel like I learned so much about Iranian persian baihai etc culture religion & language. I want to try persian food and visit iran one day. I resonated with the depression so much. I saw myself emotionally and culturally in this story. As a daughter of two jamaican immigrants I still feel envious of others with a language and solid intact culture not overly tainted by slavery and such like most of the Caribbean. I found two playlist one modern and another full of persian music new and old. I enjoyed listening to them both while reading. I teared up a little.

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