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The Bone Shard Emperor

Andrea Stewart

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Little Thieves

Margaret Owen

5.0

adventurous emotional funny 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

There's this nebulous magical feeling I remember experiencing when I was a kid discovering a new favourite book — a feeling I've been trying to recreate as an adult and failing spectacularly at, for some reason.

Enter Little Thieves.

This book perfectly recaptured that feeling of wonder for me and reminded me why I love to read. It's clever, funny, and hit all the right emotional notes with impeccable timing. It struck a brilliant balance between the whimsy of a fairy tale and the bite of a retelling. This book is an absolute treasure and I'm going to be aggressively recommending it to everyone I know.

Absolute perfection. Margaret Owen 100% understood the assignment.

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Other Words for Home

Jasmine Warga

5.0

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: No

Content Warnings

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

4.25

reflective 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: Complicated

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Squire

Nadia Shammas

4.25

adventurous challenging hopeful 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

Content Warnings

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

4.25

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

Son of a Liche

J. Zachary Pike

5.0

adventurous funny reflective 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

Orconomics was clever and brilliant and perfect and I'll admit I was nervous picking this up because — well, how do you follow a perfect book?

But Son of a Liche, somehow, is even better. It had all the elements of what made Orconomics great, turned all the way up to a hundred. These books just snuck up on me and now they're all-time favourites that I'm going to recommend to everyone I know.

Come for the puns. Stay for the incredible, heartwarming exploration of friendship, kindness and compassion as an act of rebellion in an unjust world. 💙

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