Tag: popular on bookstagram
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The Finale I Couldn’t Finish
They say every story has a beginning, a middle, an almost-ending and the true ending. It sucks that I couldn’t even get through the middle to see how this magical world’s almost-ending or true ending panned out. Stephanie Garber’s Finale comes with a lot of threads to tie together and balls to juggle but unfortunately…
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Legendary – This Book Makes Me Mad
So I finished my reread of Stephanie Garber’s Legendary, the second book in the Caraval trilogy, and I genuinely feel angry. Here is why. Warning: spoilers ahead, read at your own risk. The quality of the writing is so much better in Legendary than it was in Caraval. There was something lacking about Scarlett’s perspective,…
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Revisiting Fourth Wing – How Has My Opinion Changed
So I read and wrote up a review for Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros rather soon after its release in hopes to beat the hype and get a genuine reaction out of it. While I certainly enjoyed it, I have since seen a lot of responses and reviews of it and I can’t help but…
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Is Caraval Worth The Hype?
So I read Caraval by Stephanie Garber several summers ago, during the years where I was absorbing as much YA reading as possible without letting myself have my own thoughts on things such as personal preference, character appeal, how decent the storytelling and landscape development were, etc. As you can imagine, once that rose-tinted lens…
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From Lukov With Love – I’ll Have an Ivan Lukov Please
It must be pretty obvious that I’m not exactly a big fan of book recommendations from Instagram or Tiktok. anyone who has seen what I read will know that, especially this year’s reads so far. I can list genuine recs I’ve followed from social media on one hand. Out of all of them, a contemporary…
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If We Were Villains – Shakespeare Has Never Looked So Good
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio has been big on TikTok for years now, especially within the Dark Academia sphere. This massive cult following and the short-form content style of TikTok compounded to make me hesitant and outright avoidant of this book. I have tried other Dark Academia favourites TikTok recommended and have been…
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Fourth Wing is My New Addiction
Fourth Wing. The shiny new book on everyone’s radar over on bookish social media. Booktok has been showing quotes and edits about Xaden, Violet and Fourth Wing for weeks. Bookstagram is posting about it multiple times a day. The world’s new fictional boyfriend is Xaden Riorson and everyone wants to get in his bed. There…