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I like how important Percy seems in the earlier chapters. I mean he IS a big deal after the war. It's just great how people casually include him in their conversations
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For some reason this book is giving me attack on titans and like every apocalyptic show I've ever watched lol I really like it so far! I just finished another Jemisin book and I think her writing style is just amazing.
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
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This anthology contains four stories that all have fun concepts at varying degrees of execution. I think these were all just too short to feel properly executed.
Labyrinth Quartet- 3⭐️ I never truly knew where this one was going and because of that I think it was a little disconnected to me. I feel like I was missing on step between the climax and the ending to give the story more depth. I am not a fan of how centered on girls and women these stories written by a MAN are, especially because they are drawn nude and partially nude so often.
Curse Room- 4⭐️ I’m rating this one high because conceptually it was my favorite by far, leaving me loads to think about. The story got its point across and the first part was legitimately kind of creepy. The ending was predictable but still a fun take on zombie origins.
Family Portrait- 1⭐️ This only gets a star because I think the concept of Alzheimer’s causing death to others in fascinating and that part of the story is potentially the most well executed plot in this collection. However!!! I will never forgive the incest and the non-con. It was nasty and did not add a single thing to this story. I know that this genre uses a lot of those concepts for fear but here all it does it take away from the story.
Blood Harvest- 3.5⭐️ Cars getting a taste for blood is an incredible concept. The mystery in this one is intriguing and I like the detective and the savior idea presented in her surviving in the car, it creates a fun dynamic.
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Brain Damage
Kago Kago
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avelohd_reads commented on SailUncharted's review of The Poppy War
🎧 Audiobook review narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
Narration was very good. It was engaging and emotional when it needed to be. Woo Zeller is able to keep character voices distinct and easy to follow. I never got mixed up about who was talking even when there was no dialogue tags. Which I actually think was cheating; there were times I knew who the disembodied voice talking to Rin was because of Woo Zeller XD
Starts out really strong, rushes around the end of the middle, and then takes off in a blaze of glory for the end. I really locked in when Chaghan was introduced which is wayyyy at the end, but he did end up being my fave along with Altan. Loved the character growth, loved the grittiness. This book isn't perfect by any means but it doesn't pull punches and I respect that.
(Chaghan and Altan should kiss 😌✨)
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Brain Damage
Kago Kago
avelohd_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Lets all of us mention one book or more which we really dislike ( or hate) because it promotes something very toxic, lays out a very obviously wrong narrative. I am not talking about, 'this book was cringe and boring', I am talking about, 'the idea that was promoted in this book could be proved very dangerous if taken seriously.
A book that I genuinely dislike is Ugly love by collen hoover. This book has a male lead who has no sense of respect for the female lead, a female lead who has no sense of self respect and keeps on returning to that emotionally immature boy who cannot for the love of God get over his ex and handle his emotional baggage himself. I have read It ends with us and it starts with us. I disliked them both but my problem with them does not align with the topic of this post, they were not promoting abusive relationships (she does end up getting away from that abusive guy). Never read anything else by that author again, and never will.
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Hi lovely people🫶hope you’re all having a good Monday! + if you’re not I hope tomorrow is better 🫂
I’m looking for a few different recs, I have a few different topics im looking for so I thought just making one big post instead of flooding the forum would be best lol. also feel free to point me in the direction of any lists that include books like these!
for nonfic books I’d prefer them on the shorter side ty!
1- books with Pansexual characters / nonfic books that mentions pansexuality
2- books with genderfluid characters / nonfic books that mention gender fluidity or just talk about different identities under the trans umbrella if there’s none specific to genderfluid
3- books about ocd that don’t just focus on Contamination and Symmetry/Ordering ocd
5- books that discuss neurodiversity in people who aren’t cisgender!
6- book with ftm or non binary characters that you really liked!
7-mlm angsty men.. also for research purposes.. any genre is okay
Tysm! 🦇
avelohd_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I know this might have been asked before. But how do you go about completing/earning quest badges?
Do you hyper-focus on one quest and get ALL of the badges for that one.
Or do you join a bunch of them and kind of just wander about collecting badges as they come upon you out of nowhere when you happen to read that multiple of five you totally forgot was for a quest?!
Can you tell which one i am? 🤣🤣🤣
Or maybe you have a mixed approach?
Also have you ever joined a quest simply to collect badge(s) because you already read a bunch of the books, and you want the shiny, with zero intention of reading any others on the quest?