probablyaster's Reviews (148)

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix

Kalynn Bayron

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Riven

Mindee Arnett

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The King is Dead

Benjamin Dean

3.75

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Perilous Times

Thomas D. Lee

2.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

do not give a white supremacist a redemption arc where he sees the error of his ways and gets turned into a squirrel if you are just going to send him back to his white supremacist neonazi group. and still expect him to be a sympathetic character

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

Samit Basu

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid

3.0

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

one of the disappointments of the year, but still a good example of dark academia fantasy

In These Hallowed Halls

Marie O'Regan, Paul Kane

4.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

this book contains both some amazing short stories and some that are bad and very insensitive. so, very much accurate to the genre of dark academia as a whole, where I am either reinvented or filled with hate