monarchbooks's Reviews (547)

The Summer of Impossibilities

Rachael Allen

4.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

One critique: I feel like sometimes characters would know something they shouldn't have known and it pulled me out of the story bc I would try and figure out how they knew

Sarah: Happily Ever After

Kay Salter

4.5

emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

The writing is quite bad but I loved finally returning to this series, it was a perfect ending

Honey Girl

Morgan Rogers

4.25

emotional 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

Made me cry a lot; lots of unfinished business

Supernatural: Nevermore

Keith R.A. DeCandido

DID NOT FINISH: 23%

Reads like bad fanfiction

The Reptile Room

Lemony Snicket

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Paper Girls, Vol. 1

Brian K. Vaughan

4.0

adventurous dark fast-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

I couldn't read at least a quarter of tge books because it was in a different language and yeah, I'm so confused

Ariadne

Jennifer Saint

5.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don't know if it's beautiful or exhausting to hear about the strength of a mother's love

Artemis the Brave

Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams

adventurous funny

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Talia Hibbert

5.0

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing 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

Utterly amazing; fantastic ending with Smudge finding his way home

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo

4.0

adventurous mysterious 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 childhood friends to lovers... I do not love the Fantasy Age Gap

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