I really enjoyed this book – I listened to it on audio – and it was highly engaging and entertaining for a large part of the narrative. I thoroughly enjoy time loop stories, and I was delighted to see common elements explored in this novel such as the ‘no consequences’ day and several other elements […]
Today I want to talk about when reviewers are downright wrong about the books they review, and accuse a book of certain tropes and plot points that simply don’t exist within the book. I read a review accusing Lauren DeStefano’s The Glass Spare of ‘instalove’. Not only does Will not fall in love, she actively […]
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Today, I want to explore a topic I’ve been thinking about for a while ever since I saw the discourse on social media: Is it possible for authors to overhype their own books? Some people think so, but I’m here to argue that if an author isn’t lying or being deceitful, then no, it’s not […]
After the events of Timekeeper and Chainbreaker, I found Firestarter just… fine. I wasn’t particularly invested in the first half of the book. In fact, I can’t even really remember what happens, because the plot is basically ‘character gets kidnapped and now another character has to rescue them’ rinse and repeat as necessary. Except that […]
One Dark Window was hyped as a gothic fantasy with a unique magic system and while I can see why it’s being marketed as ‘gothic’ if I turn my head and squint (and no, this is NOT the fault of the writer, rather the marketers), the unique magic system had 2 parts, one of which […]
Today’s topic is one I’ve been thinking about for while, and that’s the big books vs small books debate. You know the drill. You walk into a bookstore, ready to drop some hard-earned cash on your new papery best friend, and there it is — the colossal tome promising hours of reading bliss. But wait: […]
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This was a really enjoyable story once I got past the incredibly slow first half. With a focus much more on characterisation and worldbuilding and far, far less on plot, with barely any action until halfway through, I was actually wondering what all the hype was about! That being said, once the game of cat […]
Let’s talk about critical thinking in books. Specifically, let’s talk about a question that I literally NEVER see anyone asking when they completely rag on a book that doesn’t meet their reader expectations: “Does this book suck, or am I just not the target audience?” We’ve all been there—slogging through a book that everyone seems […]
