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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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dark mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A very good medium-paced thriller. The ending is impossible to guess and I'm very satisfied with it.

However, the investigation feels a bit naïve: everyone is eager to help Pippa, and she gathers most of her evidence illegally (but somehow, no one seems to care).



The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

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adventurous relaxing slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

Very relaxing and adventurous, nice world building, especially for the time it was written, but incredibly slow and sometimes difficult to follow
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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funny lighthearted relaxing 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? N/A

3.0

I liked the romance part a lot, it was truly beautiful, but I didn't have enough of it, and the idealized political world felt flat and very unrealistic to me
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott

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

2.0

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

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adventurous lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

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

2.0

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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lighthearted relaxing slow-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

Out of the Blue by MsKingBean89

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emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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All the Young Dudes: Bootleg Tapes by MsKingBean89

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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