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Book Title: Openly Straight Author: Bill Konigsberg Overall Star Rating: 81/100 Protagonist: 8/10 Secondary Characters: 8/10 Romance and/or Other Relationships: 7/10 Audiobook Experience: 9/10 Themes and/or Topics: 9/10 Emotional Effect: 8/10 Story Pacing and Plot Holes: 7/10 Worldbuilding and/or Creativity: 7/10 Memorability: 10/10*

To be determined -for now it’ll be 10 stars, but that’s subject…

Book Title: Flamecaster Author: Cinda Williams Chima Overall Star Rating: 81/100 Protagonist: 8/10 Secondary Characters: 7/10 Romance and/or Other Relationships: 9/10 Audiobook Experience: 9/10 Themes and/or Topics: 7/10 Emotional Effect: 8/10 Story Pacing and Plot Holes: 8/10 Worldbuilding and/or Creativity: 7/10 Memorability: 10/10*

To be determined -for now it’ll be 10 stars, but that’s…

Children of Blood and Bone (67%)

Book Title: Children of Blood and Bone Author: Tomi Adeyemi Overall Star Rating: 67/100 Protagonist: 6/10

Zelie is definitely the capital “P” Protagonist of this book (the hero we cheer for, the chosen one, etc.) but she shares the narration with two other characters, so I will consider them protagonists as well. If I were to rate them individually, I would give Zelie an 8, Amari a 6, and Inan a…

It’s Not Like it’s a Secret (80%)

Book Title: It’s Not Like it’s a Secret Author: Misa Sugiura Overall Star Rating: 80/100 Protagonist: 7/10

Sana Kiyohara is very much a sixteen-year-old girl struggling with identity. VERY. MUCH. She is kind, she is awkward, she says things she shouldn’t say, and she says wonderful things that can make somebodies day. She loves her mother and hates things her mother stands for, and she loves…

Book Title: 14 Author: Peter Clines Overall Star Rating: 86/100 Protagonist: 7/10

Of the three books I have now read by Clines, Nate Tucker was definitely the weakest of his three protagonists. Don’t get me wrong, we’re comparing three shining icons of beautiful masculinity in a literary world populated by awful, violent tropes -but of the three, Nate was least charismatic, for sure.

Eli and Mike…

Book Title: Only Human Author: Sylvain Neuvel Overall Star Rating: 64/100 Protagonist: 4/10

I guess the protagonists were OK in this book, but honestly I knew going into this book that I was going to be bitter until the end of time about Kara dying in book two. ESPECIALLY considering that she was replaced with her whiny daughter, Eva, it didn’t make me feel anymore gracious towards the change.

B…

Book Title: Monster Author: Michael Grant Overall Star Rating: 51/100 Protagonist: 2/10

I guess for this section, it really depends who you consider the main character. As the original “Gone” series progressed, it went from being just Sam to being an ensemble of main characters. In “Monster”, I would say that Shade is the main character since she had the most active and prominent role in the…

Book Title: The Fold Author: Peter Clines Overall Star Rating: 88/100

Protagonist: 9/10

I so love a book with a likable protagonist, and that is really not easy to do when they’re the exposition machine in a sci-fi book like this! Mike, super genius extraordinaire, stumbles upon a fascinating secret government project, and the first time in his life, he’s tempted to use his super genius powers…

Book Title: Light Author: Michael Grant Overall Star Rating: 80/100

Characters: 16/20

I decided to do something weird and merge the protagonist/secondary character ratings in this review, because honestly, each book has gotten progressively more “ensemble” and less about a single character -and I’d say by this last book that there truly isn’t a discernible main character.

That being said, the…

The Perfect Couple (79%)

Book Title: The Perfect Couple Author: Elin Hilderbrand Overall Star Rating: 79/100

Protagonist: 8/10

The easy person to label as the protagonist in this book is Celeste, because it’s her wedding and her best friend who died, but I actually think the main character(s) here are the Chief of Police and The Greek. What’s so great about characters who are literally always just called by a nickname?…

Book Title: Legendary Author: Stephanie Garber Overall Star Rating: 54/100 Protagonist: 3/10

Man, I am SO disappointed that Tella was the main character of this book! I would say a major root of my issue with this book as compared to the first book in the series is the protagonist switch. Scarlet definitely had her issues as a protagonist, but at the end of the day I found her sympathetic and…

Leah on the Offbeat (86%)

Book Title: Leah on the Offbeat Author: Becky Albertalli Overall Star Rating: 86/100

Protagonist: 10/10

Ok, obviously I’m bi-ased here, because I share a name with the lead character but…Leah is a pretty darn awesome protagonist. She’s a fat bisexual girl with a bad attitude and a lot of internalized anger -but it’s not that she wants to be super negative or mean, things just don’t always come out…

Book Title: Space Case Author: Stuart Gibbs Overall Star Rating: 83/100

Protagonist: 8/10

Dash is one adorable, stalwart little kid! He knows that Dr. Holt was murdered -he’s so certain that even when the adults at Moon Base Alpha tell him to drop it, he’s determined to investigate anyways. With a little help from Keira and the mysterious Xan, he’s going to prove that Dr. Holt was murdered and…

The Last Magician (78%)

Book Title: The Last Magician Author: Lisa Maxwell Overall Star Rating: 78/100 Protagonist: 8/10

Esta is a pretty great female protagonist. Instead of being “not like other girls” she actually is a unique and three dimensional protagonist. She isn’t a super special awesome MMA fighting ultra powerful badass either -the author made her specific talent stealing things while undercover, and that’s…

This Mortal Coil (60%)

Book Title: This Mortal Coil Author: Emily Suvada Overall Star Rating: 60/100 Protagonist: 7/10

Catarina is a pretty fierce female protagonist, and I did appreciate that about her. There are definitely cons to her character as well, but I genuinely found myself liking her. She is fierce, resourceful, and compassionate in a way that a lot of badass characters aren’t. I did find myself irked at…

Book Title: Fear Author: Michael Grant Overall Star Rating: 79/100 Protagonist: 8/10

I would say the protagonists in this book are Sam, Cain, and maybe Astrid. It’s often hard in this series to figure out who is a lead player and who is a secondary character considering how many POVs there are!

I really loved digging deeper into “who” Sam and Cain are, not just from the reader’s perspective, but…

Book Title: Plague Author: Michael Grant Overall Star Rating: 79/100 Protagonist: 8/10

The protagonists were so much better this fourth addition to the series! Last book was all sulking, implosion, and failure -this book we see the heroes step up again! Namely, Sam got back from baby-island and while he’s still struggling with being a leader and whatnot, at least he isn’t crying alone in an…