Kategorie: strong female character
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Ninth House and Hell Bent (Leigh Bardugo)
I have a love-hate relationship with these books. (…) These books are as dark as it can get. I had to pair it with a lighter read to keep my mood up. You can find a specific trigger warning down below. (…)
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Legends & Lattes (Travis Baldree)
Dipping into something cozy and soothing is a concept most of us came to appreciate during the last difficult years, I believe. With the pandemic, but also our hectic modern life, enjoying the simple things and the conncetion to others became something to strive for again. The retreat into the sanction of the home or…
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Shannon Chakraborty)
Easiest. 5 stars. Ever. This was pure enjoyment! I love me a good pirate story and somehow Shannon Chakraborty managed to put all the elements I love together in this book, which is – thank God – the first one in a new series (The Amina-al-Sirafi Series). This book was a blast from the first…
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Galatea (Madeline Miller)
I stand with Madeline Miller concerning the interpretation of the greek myth. The Pygmalion myth is a prime example of misogyny and fetishization of female bodies and „pure character“ for the male pleasure. (…)
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Elfie (Gabrielle Dubois)
Sometimes it just doesn’t hit the mark for me in terms of realistic portrayal or it is so realistic and void of imagination that it bores me. But sometimes it captivates my attention fully and is a joy to read. I can happily say that „Elfie“ by Gabrielle Dubois falls into the latter category 😊…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
I will not lie, the first few chapters were hard. And just because of one thing in particular: (…)
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Circe (Madeline Miller)
Greek Mythology and I, thats a story that didn’t go too well in the past. Not that I was not interested, I love mythological tales in itself (although I was more drawn to the nordic gods of my german ancestors in general). But with greek mythology there always was this very prominent stance of misogyny…
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Godkiller (Hannah Kaner)
Hannah Kaners ‚Godkiller‘ is an epic fantasy tale that lives off of world building, a page-turning plot as well as likeable and deeply human characters. A beautiful tale about a world where gods were part of the everyday life before they were banished for good, or were they?
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