viscountess_black's Reviews (427)

The Light Through the Storm

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5/5 Stars
This is a book that describes a difficult journey and a family that stood united through not just one, but two wars. This journey brought tears, hunger and hopelessness, but still, they survived and lived. Lived to become a part of history, a story more than worth telling and that I'm thankful to have read.

Annie's Song

Catherine Anderson

4.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5/5 stars

It's a lovely story of a deaf girl, finding not only love, but also a home.
This might not be the best of love stories/novels but it has great meaning to me since it brought me out of a heavy depression years ago. Don't ask me how. The mind tends to work in curious ways.

I can only say, I love this book dearly and I hope other readers enjoy it too.

Content Warnings

There and Here

Alice Brown

5.0

challenging emotional reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl

Annika Martin

3.5

funny 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

Grumpy x sunshine trope

This book was fun to read. I enjoyed it a great deal.

SPOILERS

I mostly disliked Lizzie not defending herself from Sasha. I mean, seriously? I understand the circumstances, but still, I hated that.
And the beginning of the book. I honestly thought of Theo as a misogynistic pompous self-centered asshole. I came to eventually like him.

Looking forward to read the other books in the series.

Sacred Hospitality

Olivie Blake

3.0

funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

33 pages of motly Nico and Libby fighting to death. I thought it would be something different, but I didn't dislike it. It gave me a really good laugh.

Clytemnestra

Costanza Casati

4.0

challenging emotional reflective sad tense 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: Yes

The Atlas Six

Olivie Blake

4.0

challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective 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: Yes

I have no more words than: I need to read the sequel. My god, I need it.

The Villainess Turns the Hourglass, Season 2

SANSOBEE, Antstudio

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny

The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass

SANSOBEE

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

When I tell you I was enthralled from the beginning, I'm not exaggerating. This story captured me because of the author's writing but mostly, because of its main character, who is a psychopath (if you tell me otherwise, I'm not gonna believe it) with one clear goal: to become the greatest perfumer of the world. I'm just gonna tell you this tiny bit of a spoiler: He fucking does.

Content Warnings

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