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A Bestiary by Lily Hoang

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I read this book for a class, so I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. The fragmented style in particular scratches a certain itch in my brain.
She followed the moon back to herself by Amanda Lovelace

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1.0

I say this as an Amanda Lovelace fan, but this book has absolutely nothing to offer. I loved her previous work, but none of these poems are particularly meaningful or memorable. The whole collection takes less than 30 minutes to read because there's nothing of substance in it. I am in no way a poetry snob, but most of these aren't even poems. They're just stating things with no use of figurative language or a single poetic device. Based on the author's note, this is clearly a burnout collection, and that's okay, but as a reader you will likely be disappointed by it. If this is your first Amanda Lovelace book, I strongly recommend looking at her older work before passing judgment on her as a writer. 
Disappointing Affirmations: Unfollow Your Dreams! by Dave Tarnowski

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dark funny inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Life Before Legend by Marie Lu

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adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

These 2 silly little prequel stories are somehow better than everything else I've read from the Legend series combined.
Prodigy by Marie Lu

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

3.0

I really don't know what to think of this book. Was it particularly great? Not really but I read it anyway. It's just very early 2010s dystopian YA and has every shallow trope associated with that, so if that's your thing, then go for it I guess. These books are easy to read and I never got past the first book as a kid, so I'm catching up now and heavily questioning my 10-12 year old self's taste in books (due to both this and other things).
Body's a Bad Monster by Rowan Perez

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

5.0

I think the best summary of this book would be the text I sent after I started reading it: Sleep is canceled this book is murdering me I'm gonna be found dead in a field I have no business being in with the pages strewn all around me and probably the one on top will the page that says "you fucking English major" because yeah.
So that was the experience. Definitely be careful about trigger warnings with this book. I tried to add the worst ones, but really watch out if you've ever had a platonic but not platonic best friend who you never actually technically dated because that's pretty present throughout (Marlowe hate club rise up). But yeah this book has been my obsession all week to an unhealthy extent.
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This Blood That Burns Us by S.L. Cokeley

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Temporarily shelving this until I can get back to it since I'm not fat enough in for it to matter
Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas

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adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I loved Cemetery Boys, I liked Sunbearer Trials, I don't like this. The plot is ridiculously repetitive, the characters have all become cardboard cut outs of themselves from the first book, and the story is so painfully predictable that's there's no pay off for sticking it out to the end. Moral lessons reflecting on society are badly woven in and there's absolutely no chemistry between Teo and Aurelio anymore. Everyone is just kinda there and stuff happens. This book was immensely underwhelming and disappointing. I'm left wondering what the point of anything was and it worries me about Aidan's upcoming continuation of Cemetery Boys because I'm honestly not sure he knows how to write a sequel. For a book about the end of the world, this was shockingly boring, and I expected a lot more than I got.
Legend by Marie Lu

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

3.5

I loved this book in 5th grade so I picked it up again as a nostalgia read. It sure does fly by fast, which I like, but dear god I hate instalove and that's exactly what happens with June and Day. It was still fun to read and I'm excited to finally read the other books in the series.
Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-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

4.5

I love a good corruption arc and Evie is so good at villaining. This was a fun, silly goofy book to spend a day reading. It's dumb fluff, but with enough plot to keep things moving. I'm excited for the next book.