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Aimée by Roméo, Hélios Ma Boutet

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relaxing 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? No

4.0

Belle plume et les dessins sont WoW 
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

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challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

WoW. This book was something. I’ve been saying that a lot lately but I think it’s my favorite book of the month. 

But more seriously. I think poetry is a great way to learn about things. People who don’t like big non fiction books? Try this one. Poetry allows the text to have a lot of emotions while telling facts. And the author writing? Perfect. You can see some things that he writes about. You can feel how he feels. You will be move and touched by this book. You’ll learn more, and maybe you’ll want to read other non fiction to learn more about Palestine 
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She Gets the Girl by Alyson Derrick, Rachael Lippincott

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emotional funny lighthearted relaxing 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

4.5

Idiots to lovers + it’s cute 
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

I heard this book was supposed to be good. But it’s no… IT’S SO FUCKING GREAT GODDAMIT 

A book about women and girls ready to do anything to overcome their trauma and survive. The circle of trauma with an horror twist. Yeah the ghost and haunted mansion plot was great. 

This was soooo great and everytime I had to listen to it I didn’t want to stop. The story, the characters, the writing, the narrator 💯 🔥. The relationship were wow, and the friendship just perfect. Seriously the fact that you can understand all the main/important characters. Like not all books are capable to do it. 

This book is just perfect. I it’s gonna be hard for another book to surpass this one. 

Important topics. Great story and mysteries. Really good characters and relationships. A 100/10 book. 

TW: SA, Pedophilia, Rape, Child Abuse, Death, Violence, Domestic Violence, Child neglect 
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Queer Little Nightmares by David Ly, Daniel Zomparelli

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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

4.5

Damn that was good. Some tense, some cute, some joyful, some creepy. Quick to read/listen. Anyway horror is a perfect setting for queer stories 
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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

4.0

This book is fucking disturbing but real good 
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Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan

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

2.5

Okay so personally I would have say yes to Hades. So no story for me. 

That was… interesting? I think I would have like it without the rape scenes tbh. Is there any dark romance without rape? 
Also Persephone is kind of too naive
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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

I knew it was going to be a book hard to read but oof that was something. One you start listening to it you can’t stop, like I listened to 60% in one siting and only stopped because my phone ran out of battery.  , and I cried too listening to it. 
This is an important book to read but if you want please be careful and check the tw because there are a lot. 
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Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who by

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.
Idk. Hyperfixation passed 
C'est quoi mon genre ? by Hortense Lasbleis

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informative slow-paced

4.5

Je dois avouer que quand j’ai vu que c’était écrit par une personne cis, j’ai un peu grincé des dents. Mais! Parce qu’il y a un mais. Ce livre est vraiment top. Un livre pour les enfants, ou les personnes qui ne s’y connaissent pas en genre et personnes trans. La transitions, les difficultés, quoi faire quand on rencontre/connaît une personne trans, différents genres non-binaires, la detransition pas instrumentalisée ou choquante, la difficulté de s’accepter en tant que personne trans, etc. 

Bref agréablement surpris de ce livre, surtout que c’est un livre jeunesse français. Je vais sûrement l’offrir à mes grands parents