Tag: adult fiction
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Scratch your Dark Academia Itch with This Is How We End Things by R.J. Jacobs
Finally, another review to write up and, more importantly, another book read! This Is How We End Things by R.J. Jacobs hooked me with its teasing and emotionally involved introduction. The rest of the novel revealed itself like an oleander bloom – stunning and deadly. This Dark Academia novel is one you must add to…
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The Never-Ending Tale of Alex Michaelides’s The Fury
Hell hath no fury like a reader bored. Not only bored, but irritated at what should have been a succinct twisting tale full of drama and thrilling suspense. Instead, I seem to have been subjected to an unfortunate case of deja vu and a pretentious, unreliable narrator who cannot stand to listen to anyone else…
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A Discovery of Witches is Peak Dark Academia Fantasy
When I say that I fell in love with A Discovery of Witches upon reading it’s first few chapters, I’m not exaggerating in any way. Deborah Harkness has a truly mesmerising and compelling narrative style and is able to bring her settings to life, creating this supernatural-dipped Oxford where witches, vampires and daemons roam the…
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Ariel Lawhon’s The Frozen River – Vivid and Gripping
I am a big fan of Ariel Lawhon’s writing style, having first read Codename Helene in one sitting and then gobbled down I Was Anastasia in a matter of hours. The Frozen River is yet another wondrous piece of art to add to her repertoire in my eyes. I am a stranger to the timeframe and…
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My Physical TBR piles for 2024
Do you have a physical TBR at home that you want to tackle? What are some of the titles on there? A practice I try to keep up with when it comes to my books is prioritising my physical TBRs. By this, I mean that I want to focus on the books I have on…
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Favourites of 2023
2023 was a year where I read 160 books but only gave 5-stars to maybe six of them. I’m a bit of a hard reviewer, only giving five stars to something that I genuinely enjoy and I must take the whole story into consideration as both a reader and a writer when considering a five-star…
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Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – A Stunning Adult Fantasy Featuring The Spice Girls
I’m not lying, there are references to the Spice Girls, and if anything that should make you add Her Majesty’s Royal Coven to your tbr lists ASAP. Juno Dawson is a mastermind for creating this funny, relatable British modern low fantasy and I am here for it. If you look hard enough at old photographs,…