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Family Baggage by Monica McInerney

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adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

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The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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

4.0

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The Raven's Song by Bren MacDibble, Zana Fraillon

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4.75

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The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon

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

4.5

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August and Jones by Pip Harry

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adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Runt by Craig Silvey

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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

5.0

How to Host a Viking Funeral: What I Learned Asking 20,000 People to Share and Burn Their Regrets by Kyle Scheele

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4.5

A great self-help book about learning to move on from regrets and events of the past that we maybe be still holding on to. Emotional, humourous and inspiring. 
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Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

4.0

 A sequel to Ready Player One, this book is equally full of adventure and pop culture references. 

It takes place a few days after RPO left off. I found it very slow to start and it wasn’t until about Chapter 8 that it began taking off. Very different from Book One, which had a much better pace of events. It does still have a lot of mystery and suspense, and I would love to see what might be done with it if it were taken up as a movie. It might be that I was listening to the audiobook version, but it was difficult to follow the fighting sequences at times. 
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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adventurous funny informative mysterious tense 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

5.0

Set in a dystopian future, technology has evolved to the point where no one really needs to set foot outside in the real world anymore with the brilliant invention of the OASIS - a fully immersive, multidimensional virtual reality experience that allows users to escape their dull, often poverty-stricken existence and become whoever they want to be. Every introvert's paradise.

Very cleverly written, this book is akin to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -  if Indy were a teenage computer hacker. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS (James Halliday) dies, he bequeaths his multi-billion dollar ownership of the OASIS to whoever can solve his riddles to find a hidden Easter egg within the system. This sparks a major hunt and 17-year-old Wade, aka Parzival, joins the heated competition. As a fan of all things 80s, all of Halliday's references in the clues are to past video games, movies, songs, and TV shows from that decade. Making this book a fantastic trip down memory lane! 

The book, in my opinion, is MUCH better than the recently produced movie adaptation. Although also very entertaining, there are major scene and sequencing changes to the movie, and a lot of great content was left out. My guess is due to copyright issues! 
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