xolobooks's Reviews (197)

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Julissa Arce

4.0

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

Café Con Lychee

Emery Lee

4.0

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing tense 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: No

Neruda on the Park

Cleyvis Natera

3.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.0

challenging funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

3.0

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Magnificent Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: Destined

Saladin Ahmed

4.0

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring 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: No

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

2.25

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful 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: No

Content Warnings

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4: Last Days

G. Willow Wilson

4.25

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring 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: No

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