Tag: ya fiction
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Lancali’s I Fell In Love With Hope is Captivating and Heartbreaking
I’m a sucker for a story set in a hospital, centred around terminally ill kids just trying to live their lives. Lancali’s I Fell In Love With Hope is just that and so much more. With beautiful poetic prose, characters full of heart and soul and light, and the shadow hanging over your shoulder as…
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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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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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The Fountains of Silence – Harrowing Modern History Within Our Reach
As a self-proclaimed historian, having minored in history in university, I thought I had a rather broad but educated sense of modern history. Surely the most significant events between WWI and now I would’ve heard, right? Wrong. I had absolutely no idea that something like this was going on for decades and that it occurred…
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The Stationery Shop By Marjan Kamali Has My Heart
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali is a masterful piece of life. I don’t even remember what I was expecting before reading this. All I know is that I will never be the same. This book is so beautifully written and the life contained within these covers is rich and inviting and heartbreaking and sombre.…
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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…