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Alerte Tartelette : Orane et Orion, pégases téméraires by Jo Riley-Black

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

2.75

 
Merci NetGalley et Scrineo pour le service presse numérique contre un avis.  
Alors, un livre qui suit des pégases dans une école pour devenir des pégases d’élites afin de protéger la famille royale. Le tout avec la princesse qui devient la colocataire de l’héroïne ? J’étais en mode « prenez mes sous », surtout que j’aime lire de la jeunesse pour après les conseiller. Et puis on n’est jamais trop vieux pour la jeunesse.  
Une histoire au concept intéressant, un casting de personnages divers, je veux dire l’héroïne est handicapée et utilise un fauteuil en étant Pégase ! C’est génial ! Franchement, ce sont les points forts de l’histoire. Les personnages sont assez attachants, mais j’avais oublié comment on peut être énervant à cet âge-là. J’ai pourtant travaillé avec des enfants de cet âge. Mais les personnages évoluent tout de même dans une certaine mesure. Il y a des moments qui sont drôles, et les retournements de situation sont vraiment bons pour la tranche d’âge visée.
Bon, les chevaux, c’est plus pour moi par contre. Je ne me suis pas vu passer cette phase. Aussi, je sais que c’est un livre jeunesse et que le but et l’histoire et tout et tout, mais le discours par rapport à la révolution, je ne sais pas, ça m’a paru bizarre. Mais en même temps, la fin est intéressante. Peut-être pour ouvrir une conversation. Mais j’ai fini le livre il y a 4 jours, et je ne sais pas, mais le livre me laisse encore perplexe. Je suis pourtant parfaitement sûr.e que l’on peut faire des histoires avec des révolutionnaires, et personnes changeant des choses d’une manière géniale… Mais ça reste un bon livre. Je le conseillerai aux enfants, je pense.  
Je réfléchis peut-être un peu trop. 
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

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

2.75

Not bad, but some kinda fell flat
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

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

4.0

I didn't know anything starting this book, and honestly, that's a good thing. This is a good story. Maybe I was expecting more action, but it would have been too much. So yeah, a good surprise. Sometimes I felt a bit lost, but I think it's more because I was reading it when I needed to sleep than because of the book
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Blossom by D.S.

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Omg. C'était  top. La seule reproche qu'on pourrait faire : le découpage du temps etait un peu chelou parfois 
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Covenant, Vol. 1 by LySandra Vuong, explodikid

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adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

Sam can show me her holly spirit. AMEN.
This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Nicole Melleby, Katherine Locke

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

3.75

I liked this book. Not every short stories, but it was fun. BUT Ashley Herring Blake left a sour taste. Like, it's not because you have a crush on an enby person, that you are be. Gay and lesbians can be/date enbies. Also, imagine there's someone telling you that her name is now Jenna, but you're still call her by her (what can be considerate) deadname. Even if it's in your head/thougts... I swear to god I thought I was gonna throw my kindle under a car
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

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challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

3.75

This is not me rating the book "story' because you can't rate someone's life and experience.

This books was really interesting. I'm notnreligious and don't know a lot about religions. So listening/reading someone's experience with religion and queerness was interesting. 
The author shed light on things we don't really think about us as white queers. Immigration, experience with religion, experience with family, loosing everything you know, struggling w/ identities, not seeing yourself anywhere. 

Sometime though the writing felt a off, like fla  and slow. But nothing too bad obv. Also i want to see her work 
Tsé, être aimée, ça fait (tellement mal) du bien by Ana Zaharova

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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? No

5.0

Okay. Hit too close to home hein. Un superbe livre mais ca m'a trigger de fou. Normalement j'aurais pas mis autant de temps a lire un livre de cette taille. Surtout que l'écriture est hyper fluide. L'histoire belle. Mais a ce que je vois j'ai encore un peu de travail sur certaines choses
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.
idk I just can't finish books... Plus, I have to return it in 2 days. Too much works to finish it
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

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

2.75

AITA For trying to make my crush jealous and killing a guy by accident  because I made his d!ck explode?

That's it. That's the premise of this book. I loved that we have a whole queer friend group trying to deal with their mess. But the book... at first I was like "meh the writing feels off". Then "okay... this is interesting..." and finally "wait. That's it? The book is over? Just like that?"

So yeah. The story is enjoyabl , but Kind of underwhelming. Especially the ending. It feels like something is missing
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