madgerdes's Reviews (970)

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

5.0

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Always going to give these childhood favorites five stars zero nuance because they’ll always mean so much to me

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Sarah Krasnostein

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

Becky Chambers

5.0

emotional hopeful 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

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

4.0

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful 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: Complicated

I Thought about It in My Head and I Felt It in My Heart But I Made It with My Hands

Rob Ryan

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Why I Wake Early: New Poems

Mary Oliver

4.0

hopeful reflective medium-paced

Felicity

Mary Oliver

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing fast-paced

A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

Elliott Currie

4.5

challenging informative medium-paced

I'm Afraid of Men

Vivek Shraya

4.0

challenging dark fast-paced

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