Maybe the Falcon and Kasia should have been the lead couple. HOW GOOD IS IT? 4/10 BASICALLY A moody wizard who is nick-named “Dragon” protects a village from an evil forest. Every ten years, he takes a girl into his tower as a price. He would keep her for ten years and let her go. …
HOW GOOD IS IT? 2/10 ABOUT THE BOOK Author: Holly Black Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers BASICALLY A human girl named Jude is swept into the faerie world. Everyone is horrible to her here but she wants to become one of the faeries. One particular faerie prince hates her but he’s too attractive not to …
HOW GOOD IS IT? 6/10 SO Even with its flaws, Ruin and Rising is a satisfying conclusion to the Grisha trilogy. Leigh Bardugo is at her best with action scenes and political intrigues. Alina, despite having an unclear personality, is a simple enough protagonist to relate to. The romance, for the most part, is unnecessary …
Alina finally does something. I repeat, Alina finally does something. HOW GOOD IS IT? 5/10 BASICALLY After escaping from the Darkling, Alina and Mal run away from Ravka and take refuge in a distant town, only to be captured again by, well, the Darkling. With a newfound power, he takes them both on a trip …
“You betrayed me.” (The Darkling to Alina) OK, Darkling, if you’re trying to make me choke on my tea, you’ve succeeded. HOW GOOD IS IT? 7/10 ABOUT THE BOOK Author: Leigh Bardugo Genre: Fantasy BASICALLY Alina works in the army as a mapmaker. One day, as her team is attacked by Volcra – super ruthless …
As far as classics go, they can do a lot of things to a reader – change your life, make you raise your brows, put you to sleep, etc. Because of these things, we definitely don’t want to start with something so long and tedious (or boring — let’s face it, a lot of them …
HOW GOOD IS IT? 8/10 BASICALLY After completing the deadly mission at the Ice Court, the gang – Kaz, Inej, Nina, Matthias, Jesper, and Wylan – find they have been double-crossed by Jan Van Eck, the man who hired them for this job. Luckily, nothing gets by Kaz, he has a plan to respond. We …
HOW GOOD IS IT? 6.5/10 BASICALLY… The synopsis of this book is surprisingly simple: Grisha are people with inborn magical powers, feared by those who don’t possess the same abilities. One day, a drug is invented to enhance Grisha’s powers and make them into slaves. Problem? Grisha with this drug in their system might become powerful …
*This post contains SPOILERS for The Memory of Babel. In the Memory of Babel, Thorn and Ophelia get a brutally small amount of time together. So, to fully appreciate their emotional development in each of those short scenes, we – as readers – are invited not to indulge ourselves with the hope that these two people …
HOW GOOD IS IT? 8/10 BASICALLY Here we are — the third instalment of the Mirror Visitor quartet. How I wish I had waited until all four books came out. This book picks up three years after Thorn’s disappearance. Ophelia is in the most miserable state – she has been sent back to …
