This is where we get into my more in-depth thoughts, and often spoilers! Any full reviews I have can be found here (as well as a few random recommendations posts that didn’t really fit anywhere else). However, if you’d like to see my thoughts on more books, make sure to check out my series “What I read”, where I give you mini-reviews of everything I read each month. Those are completely spoiler-free ;)
“Why is it forbidden to write down specific knowledge of the magics? Perhaps because we all fear that such knowledge would fall into the hands of one not worthy to use it.”- Royal Assassin, page 1 - Happy Sunday, everyone! I wasn’t actually planning on posting today, but ever since I finished Royal Assassin yesterday, … Continue reading Spoilery Book Review: Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
The creature didn't know what they meant. [...] I'm not called Keeper, she said. I don't have a name. You're confusing me with someone else.Help us! they cried. What's wrong with you? You're the hero of Winterkeep! You're supposed to protect us!Deciding to pretend she couldn't hear them, she sank down into the blackness of … Continue reading Book Review: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore
A girl is running for her life.- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opening line - You know how there are some books that suck you in immediately, that you can't put down until you've read that last sentence, ones that you still think about days after finishing them? Well, The Invisible Life of Addie … Continue reading Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Happy Friday, everyone! A lot has happened this past week - I'm still getting used to my mysterious new font, the government announced Germany would be going back into lockdown starting next week ( *Yay, now that I'm finally almost done with exams and would actually have time to do stuff* 😅), and I passed … Continue reading Book Review: Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Hi everyone! I know I'm deviating from my posting schedule, but that's because I wanted to make the most of my writing time before university starts again a week from now. Okay, and also because I am so in love with the Winternight trilogy that I am bursting to talk about it!!! Seriously, why did … Continue reading Series Review: The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
Hi everyone! My friend and I have finally finished our buddy-read of Midnight Sun! And let me tell you – I enjoyed it immensely 😁😂 Yes, it was absolutely ridiculous and horribly misogynistic, but I still loved every minute of it. There’s just something about the way Stephenie Meyer writes that has me absolutely lapping … Continue reading My Very Spoilery Thoughts on Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
If you've been keeping up with my wrap-ups, you'll know that I've been reading Shakespeare borderline obsessively for the past few months. And now, seven years after I read my first Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in English class, I can finally say: I DID IT!!! I have read all 39 plays in the … Continue reading I Read Every Shakespeare Play – Here’s My Takeaway
Hi everybody! In celebration of my university semester ending, I decided to take the weekend off before I went into full-on exam revision mode, which means I had some spare time to write. All this is to say: You're getting an extra post this week 😉 Anyway, since my friend and I finally finished buddy-reading … Continue reading Book Review: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Happy Friday, everyone! (Or happy whatever-other-day-you're-reading-this-on!) As you can tell, I finally jumped on the bandwagon and read Felix Ever After 😊 And let me just say: In opinion, the hype surrounding this book is 100% justified. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and found Felix's perspective to be really new and refreshing. I've read very … Continue reading Book Review: Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Hi everybody! This week's post is coming to you from a severely sleep-deprived me, but that's because I just had a reading week so awesome that I feel like this week alone will be responsible for about half of my favorite books of the year. I'm not kidding! Among others, I read one four-star and … Continue reading Mini-Reviews: The Interestings, Allegedly, The Anti-Virginity Pact
Maybe I should complain about my books not getting here on time more often, because literally the minute I publicly aired my grievances about the lateness of this preorder in my Book Spine Poetry post, the mailman arrived with a package for me!! And, as soon as I got my hands on this book, I … Continue reading Rambly First Thoughts on The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Curse trilogy is one of my favorite fantasy series out there, so when I heard that she had written a new book, I obviously had to read it 🙂 Many thanks to altheareads for putting it on my radar, since I somehow managed to complete miss hearing about this! Overall, this … Continue reading Book Review: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
I found a book that made me cry! That in itself is such a rare occurrence that The How and the Why deserves more attention than it will probably get in my what is sure to be endlessly long April wrap-up 😉 But I also just really needed a break from e-university, because while isolation … Continue reading Book Review: The How and The Why by Cynthia Hand
The holiday season is coming up, so I thought what better time to dish out some lesser known book recommendations than now? After all, books are the perfect gifts for people who read a lot, but it can also be hard to pick something they don't already know... I hope I can help a little: … Continue reading Underhyped Book Recommendations
I saw an early screening of Crimes of Grindelwald on Wednesday and read the screenplay first thing yesterday when it came out, so keep in mind that these are just my preliminary thoughts. However, while I loved being in this world again and enjoyed the movie, I thought there were a lot of glaring plot … Continue reading The Crimes of Grindelwald – My Initial Thoughts
Also gut - für die Germanophilen (oder auch Anglophoben) unter euch gibt's jetzt auch mal einen Post auf Deutsch. Keine Ahnung, ob ich das regelmäßig machen werde oder nicht, aber es hat sich gerade angeboten. Ich habe nämlich diesen Monat Bayreuther Abgründe, einen Lokalkrimi, der an meiner ehemaligen Schule spielt, gelesen, und habe so einige … Continue reading In German: Bayreuther Abgründe von Herbert Meyer – eine Rezension
Some Basic Info: Title: Absalom, Absalom! Author: William Faulkner Genre: Southern Gothic fiction (modern classic) First Published: 1936 Date Read: October 14-18, 2018 Rating: 2/5 Stars Goodreads Summary: Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's … Continue reading Spoilery Book Review: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Some Basic Info: Title: You Bring the Distant Near Author: Mitali Perkins Genre: YA contemporary Publication Date: September 12, 2017 Date Read: August 12, 2018 Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Goodreads Summary: Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden … Continue reading Spoilery Book Review: You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
Ah, the good old school days... I guess there's nothing like university to make you nostalgic for when you were a kid and had tons of free time, even though you didn't realize it back then. And of course, part of those childhood memories have to do with reading. When I was in elementary school, … Continue reading Underrated Middle-Grade Books that I Loved in Elementary and Middle School
To call this a book review would be sadly inaccurate because I have too many feelings to form coherent thoughts right now. So what you're going to get is rambly, somewhat incoherent gushing and thoughts that might not even make sense to people who have also read this series. But I have to talk about … Continue reading Rambly First Thoughts on The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall
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