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Crier's War by Nina Varela

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adventurous emotional fast-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It stumbled at the beginning with how it couldn't seamlessly integrate exposition and instead dumped it, but once the scenario and all the characters were set it was a fun read sprinkled with rich prose.

We do love a good enemies to lover slow burn with revolutionary themes and I'm looking forward to the next installment! 
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

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challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Spent so long chipping away at this one that the constant repetition in the stories actually helped me remember what the hell was going on when I started reading again. 

The corporate horror stories were really good though. 
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie

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

3.75

Liked the writing well enough, loved the main characters, will most probably read book 2... But I'm torn on the idea of a white woman writing a mlm story featuring characters of color. I'm not in a position to judge if she pulls it off, but please don't forget to support own voices sci-fi authors.