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Funny Story by Emily Henry

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad tense
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0


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Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson

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slow-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

- hot stuff!!!
- I think this is the first time I've known of the word penis specifically to be used in a smut scene. (value neutral statement.)
- dragged on a bit a lot in the beginning.
- audiobook narrator sounded kind of AI? every sentence felt like it had the same cadence and pitch progression.
- yes there's blood drinking from the butt at one point
- I do feel like the smut felt a bit sudden sorta. like I was almost waiting for it to be a wet dream scene that is woken up from in the beginning.
- not really a lot of dwelling on the emotional aspects of stuff happening in the end. which like, is fine, but it's weird that there wasn't a conversation about what happened to [redacted character].
- was a bit unclear about whether that one character was like.... scalped????? like...
- maybe most of my beefs were because I was listening at nearly 3x speed but I felt like it was necessary to get to the point, and with the narrator

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My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

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funny

5.0


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Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee

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adventurous emotional sad
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0


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Sweet Nightmare by Tracy Wolff

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tense
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
so like. a good portion of this book is just a bunch of teenagers dying and being killed in fucked up ways (their nightmares coming true, and then a 'natural' disaster).
it's an institution that calls itself a school. the pacing gets real fast once the disasters start happening. please look up the complete trigger warnings for this book because if burning alive or body horror where faces are partially missing or whatever is a bit much for you, beware. there's a few of that kind of thing.

at the same time, I feel like I didn't really get to know the characters that well. like what on earth does Jude even LIKE to do? what does Clementine LIKE about him besides just that he is Jude? they clearly are really into each other and have a lot of grief and some baggage but like bruh what else. what coping mechs does Clementine have? Jude at least retreats.

the characters are pretty 2D but the plot is pretty 4D which made me keep going.

I listened on audiobook at 2.4x speed so YMMV if you read it analog.

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Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

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Did not finish book.
I just found the characters really unlikeable.
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

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funny mysterious
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

trans gal love interest! however, I don't think the author knows what hormones do. there's a comment made saying that during the hollowing, Celeste grew some facial hair being without her medication. facial hair *texture* may be hormone-dependant, but it would be her being without a razor that would cause that, not HRT medication specifically. otherwise I find it to be p good rep but I am a different kind of trans than her so YMMV.

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How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0