Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars This book was amazing. I know it’s really weak and shitty of me to start a book review like that, but just… believe me. This book was so stunningly amazing, that I’m not sure I know what more to say about it? The feeling of reading it comes close…
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Dark Southern Thriller About Family Secrets – Or Is It Really? Burying The Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★✬☆☆ 2.5 stars Good, important topic. Nice suspense. Okay execution. Almost unbearable characters. I guess it was alright? This book has been lying around on my Kindle for at least a year. It’s one of the first NetGalley eARCs I’ve downloaded, and to be honest, the premise sounded fab: Althea, fresh out…
Continue Reading→What Happens To A Pacifist When He Has To Fight For His Family? When The English Fall by David Williams - not your traditional apocalyptic tale
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars I find myself struggling to start this review. Because the book was just so unbelievable, I find myself at a lack of words. What would it be like to watch the end of the world as a bystander? As someone who has always thought that living that way was…
Continue Reading→This One May Be A Winner After All You May Already Be A Winner by Ann Dee Ellis
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars #Wrong number 1 So at first I thought this book would be easy and fun. A kids’ read. Just what I need right now. #Wrong number 2 Then I thought it would be a three star read. #Wrong number 3 I thought it would be pretty forgettable. And that it…
Continue Reading→If You’re Into New Age Spirituality, Read This One Born Aware by Diane Brandon
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars If you’re only here for the fun and the fiction, turn around. This post is not for you. In fact, if you haven’t heard terms like lucid dreaming, awareness or consciousness, or if you use terms like reincarnation or karma as topical jokes only, you might find this post…
Continue Reading→Diverse kids books? Yes, please! Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars Pop quiz! You like cute books. You also like diverse books. And you enjoy YA and kids books. Question: will you like Felix Yz? (tick tock tick tock…) Answer: Yes! Most definitely YES!! Why? Let’s get started. First I’ll give you some backstory: Felix isn’t a very lucky boy.…
Continue Reading→Can Someone Love Too Much? There’s A Book About That. The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness by Jennifer Latson
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars I have a weakness for non-fiction that talks about tough topics. I spot a book about disability, being different, diversity, suffering, all that stuff… I click buy. Request. Read. That’s just who I am. Come on, does the cover not already capture you? How could someone love too much? How can there…
Continue Reading→Is There Super Fun Scifi, But Not For Teens? YES. Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom by Bradley W. Schenck
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars If I were you, I’d just read this book already. But stick around, if you want to find out why. So let’s ignore the somewhat tacky cover for a bit. (I’m glad I can look past the cover. I’m better than that! But I know that I nearly didn’t click…
Continue Reading→A Rock’n’roll Memoir About Learning To Love Yourself Dear Reflection by Jessica Bell
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars Emotional review coming up. Get your napkins ready! When I requested this title, I was excited, because hey – a rock’n’roll teens memoir? Written by someone whose parents were actually musicians, bohemians? Man, that sounds good. Who wouldn’t want to read that? Then when I let it sit for…
Continue Reading→How To NOT Find A Spark In A Brilliantly Set Up Story The Finding of Martha Lost by Caroline Wallace
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★☆☆ 3 stars We need to talk about how I found myself feeling about The Finding of Martha Lost. Cause I for sure am not lost about how I feel about this book. You could say I am finding myself with quite a strong opinion. Enough of the puns! Let’s talk straight…
Continue Reading→When sh… gets too literary for me, even if awards are involved The Kite Family by Hon Lai-chu
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★☆☆☆ 2 stars Received ARC for review Man, do we have some deep literary shit here. Been reading this since September, and was it a tough cookie. Parts sparked my interest, and then… the stories would get so mixed up I wouldn’t know what to make of them. When I stumble upon books…
Continue Reading→Why were they called The Girls With Radioactive Bones? The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore
You might wonder who The Radium Girls were…. They were called The Girls With Radioactive Bones. There were newspaper headlines such as ‘Living Dead’ Win In Court’ about them. And all that – almost a hundred years ago. Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars I’m going to tell you a very painful, sad, but strong story of fighting for…
Continue Reading→A Gripping Story About Mothers and Daughters, Adoption And… Tea? The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane sounds like just another pretty name, when you first spot it. It brings promise, as does the author’s well-known name, Lisa See. A promise of secrets, twilight and fantastic cultures it might take you too. I’m going to tell you that it delivers. Brace yourselves…
Continue Reading→Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey A Retelling of Shakespeare's Tragic Tale
Today I’m reviewing Miranda and Caliban – a retelling of The Tempest by Shakespeare, which, I must admit, I have not read. That has had me worried about writing this review, but I guess it IS a retelling, so it’s okay if you read it as a standalone. I hate to say it, but as much as I’ve read of Shakespeare (and…
Continue Reading→The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak Fun, nerdy, relatable and yet shocking - a tale of being a teen in the 80's
Back to the blog and so long to the unannounced, unplanned hiatus. Or rather, I hope so? Like some of you might have noticed, or at least my egoistic and attention craving little blogger-self hopes you have, I have been away from blogging for at least two weeks. A good, solid fortnight. And none the wiser, cause it wasn’t planned and I…
Continue Reading→Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein It's got it all - love and joy, sorrow and pain
This blog post has been eaten up by the evil server-killing monsters on the unfortunate day of Jan 24th, when my blog has been offline for *gasp!* around 24 hours for the first time. I am reconstructing it through my GR review (which is thankfully almost the same, cause it was that one time I decided to be lazy and keep…
Continue Reading→The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden It's nothing like Deathless, but that's a good thing
So this is actually a book people have been waiting for me to review. And yet… I finished this more than a week ago, and I still feel like my review is nowhere near the way I want it to be. No pressure. So I’ll just have to publish the review the way it is, because over all my fretting the…
Continue Reading→Mine by Katie Crawford A good study on love and loss, but...
Hello again, my lovely readers! I know I promised the review for The Bear And The Nightingale, but that’s still brewing, my lovelies. So sincerely sorry! I want to make it a good one… But in the meantime, I’ve knocked one more block off my huge ARC mountain from last year, so let’s talk about that one instead. I’m trying to…
Continue Reading→Faithful by Alice Hoffman Or my magical read of New Year's Night
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars I’m finally going to review Faithful by Alice Hoffman. Originally, this was the first book I read this year. But I was having one of those “book too good to write review” things again. And now I’ve reviewed Throwing My Life Away, but still haven’t reviewed Faithful. Tut tut,…
Continue Reading→The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick A magical book for the winter season
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars In short: The Comet Seekers is a wonderful book. I loved it. Main feel: layered, nostalgic, deep and emotional. Slow, will focus on feelings, coping with them, family events, and not action or developments, will also jump around timelines. However, very magical, very warm and personal. I loved this…
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