Tag: book review
-
Reading – The Competition No One Asked For
It seemed like whenever I went on bookish social media in 2023, one of the first things that came up on my feed was related to a reading total. Now I don’t mind finding out how many people reached their goals at the end of the year, but it more often than not wasn’t about…
-
Questions are Answered in A Fatal Illusion
I’ve been wondering for some time now when we will get some explanation in regards to the way Lord Gage speaks of and treats his family. He has been such a prevalent character in the latter half of the series and it seems strange the murkiness surrounding such backstory would be pushed back time and…
-
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…
-
Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect – Yet Another Thrilling, Hilarious Read
I have successfully roped my mum into reading Benjamin Stevenson’s books, however, I did do a bad thing and give her the second book in a series to read first. Forgive me, books gods and Benjamin Stevenson, but she didn’t have anything else to read and I had plenty to share. Everyone On This Train…
-
A Court of Frost and Starlight is my Breaking Point
This book is the one that solidified my stance on the ACOTAR series. A Court of Frost and Starlight is the novella set after the war and as novellas are, it is a short read. Unfortunately, there are several issues such as word choice, poor sentence structure and repetition of detail and phrases that makes…
-
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…
-
Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue – One of The Darkest YA Books I Have Read
Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue is like nothing I have read before because of its unabashed confrontation of abuse and trauma. It’s heavy-hitting in its detail, in the way characters interact with each other or react to triggers, and it creates such a complex world and multi-layered situation to unravel. Before you decide to read it, I…
-
My Reading Goals for 2024
Happy New Year everyone! If feels like 2023 has flown by, so much so that I haven’t had enough time to sit down and decide how I want to tackle my reading goals for 2024. I have tried many different ways of tracking my reads, from Goodreads to writing reviews in old diaries, and I…