I always give five stars to books that I can’t put down, even if they are not without flaws. This one definitely is not flawless. First of all, it is not as original as you might expect. In fact it’s pretty derivative. Shadow wielder? You mean Summoner? Or like a High Lord of the… Night…
Book Review: Romantic Comedy
I apparently need to rename this blog to “The Summer Book Blog” because it seems I only review beach reads here. Not sure why that happens – maybe time warps differently between June and August or reading a book on the beach makes you want to talk about it more. Whatever the reason, I am…
Book Review: Carrie Soto Is Back
Finally a true 5-star read I could not put down. I have so much love for Carrie Soto – the book and the character. I am just about to turn on ESPN hoping to catch a glimpse of the US Open. A glimpse of Carrie and Nicki slamming that ball at ridiculous speed. Because, like…
Book Review: My Oxford Year
I was so busy the whole summer, that I never thought I will get enough time to really binge on books, let alone the summer-y type. Well, fortunately that did happen and in the last couple of weeks I’ve really caught up with the “light” titles of the year. Well, at least I thought they…
Book Review: The Paper Palace
The Paper Palace is extremely hard to review. The writing is so beautiful and the narrative – so complex, that I feel my attempts at coherent thought can never ever do them justice. So, I will start simple – with the facts.The book’s protagonist, Elle (for Eleanor, so I like her already), has spent all…
Book Review: Malibu Rising
Malibu Rising is an exceptionally well-written book, but its biggest drawback is that it comes after Evelyn and after Daisy, and at least in my humble opinion, it can’t hold a candle to either. Especially not Daisy. That is to say – my expectations were sky-high, and as good as the book may be, it…
Book Review: The Idea of You
I love this book! And I find it very hard to say what exactly I love the most about it, because it manages to be the perfect light summer read, the ideal escapist story and a quite complex book about what it means to be a woman today all at once. It also celebrates femininity…
The Rose Code – A Masterpiece from Kate Quinn
Kate Quinn is one of my favourite contemporary authors and I was certain I will love The Rose Code. But this book is something else! The Alice Network was great, The Huntress was epic, but in her third book to be set in the twentieth century, Kate Quinn has taken things to a whole new…
Book Review: The Angels Weep
“War makes monsters of us all.” This is the dominant theme of Wilbur Smith’s “The Angels Weep”. The third Ballantyne novel picks up shortly after Cecil Rhodes moved into the lands of the Matabele, his troops destroying the impis at the Shangani river and bringing about the end of Lobengula. Ralph Ballantyne is more successful…
Michelle Obama – My New Old Hero
My reading these past couple of months has been exceptional, I sure can’t complain about that. And one of the books I finished in November was also one of the most inspirational books I’ve read in a while – and a non-fiction at that – Becoming by Michelle Obama. I have always liked her as a…
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