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47 reviews

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.
I really disliked all the condescending language used for no reason.

Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden by Lieke Marsman

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challenging reflective sad

4.5

Lampje by Annet Schaap

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challenging dark inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This was so good....
I was in total agony the first quarter of the book, I really hated almost all of the adults...
And most of them don't really get any better.
But Lampje shines.

Only flaw I think is the ending, it felt really abrupt. Not a bad ending, but it was just capped off very suddenly.
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre by Cho Yeeun

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challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

What a weird and wild story!!
Not as creepy or as gory as I thought, also, not really horror, but with some horror elements to it.
A mosaic of interconnected storylines that go into strange places. 
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

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challenging dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I finished this book in two days, something I rarely do. I was completely sucked in for the first 2/3 of the book, but I felt kinda disappointed in the last part. It was just more of the same. I hoped the trainwreck would be more of a trainwreck, it was definitely built up to be a massive one. But it just kinda fizzled out? 
Point of the story: people do not change, or are really punished for their actions. And thats what I disliked about it.
Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden by Olga Tokarczuk

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challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

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adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Alright, this was not what I hoped the sequel would be and I miss the vibes and fairytale moods of the first one.
But it was not bad, not at all.
Moonchild: City of the Sun by Aisha Bushby, Aisha Bushby

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adventurous challenging hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.25

Liarland by Madison Rupp

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The Autists: Women on the Spectrum by Clara Törnvall

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

There's a lot of interesting details and theories and thoughts in this book, and I must say I learned a lot. But it skips a lot from one (sub)subject to the other which made the reading experience a bit messy and disjointed.
But once you get used to that writing style it is an interesting book which poses interesting and never before known (to me) theories about autism in women.