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Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given

This felt like a basic white woman’s guide to feminism a la early 2010s.

It really lost me with when she started giving her examples of internal misogyny.

I felt like a lot of this was ‘well obviously’

I don’t even know who the audience for this one is?

Live and Let Chai

Bree Baker

DID NOT FINISH: 16%

Seaside tea shop with sides of body shaming and diet culture 😒

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

Rachelle Bergstein

3.75

informative inspiring fast-paced

Intimacies

Katie Kitamura

4.0

reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A Dark and Stormy Murder

Julia Buckley

DID NOT FINISH: 54%

This has to be both the messiest and most dull cozy mystery I’ve ever tried reading

Black Sheep

Rachel Harrison

5.0

dark tense fast-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

Devoured in just a few hours 🫡

The Library of the Dead

T.L. Huchu

2.0

tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Really disappointed because I got this off of a recommendation from the Currently Reading Podcast’s Indie Press List. Their excitement for it last fall really convinced me to purchase it. Sadly it wasn’t for me.

The world needed more building before the plot went off on so many tangents.