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Happy Valentine’s Day bookworms! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday–a weekly original meme created by The Broke and The Bookish–is of course all about love, and so here I am with a list of my top ten favorite bookish couples, whose love inspires me and makes me hope that one day I find a love like theirs too.
First off, a huge thanks to Aentee from Read At Midnight for recommending this book. Had I known what a jewel The Fifth Season is, I would have read it sooner. Click here for her review of the book.
Synopsis
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS… FOR THE LAST TIME.
A season of endings has begun.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.
It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.
It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Ratings: ☕☕☕☕☕ 5/5
Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more important things.
There are many great, well-known fantasy books that have a strong engaging narration, incredibly realistic and powerful world building, heartbreaking plot twists and characters so unforgettable that you can’t help but be emotionally invested in them as if they were real, all written with such skill and perfect execution that you are transported into a time and place far far away from the reality you live in, which is exactly the reason why you read fantasy in the first place. To discover a world unlike any you know.
Then there’s The Fifth Season.
Ratings: ☕☕☕ (3/5 coffee cups)
I have never really read any of Sharon Cameron‘s books before, and despite having a wonderful world-building, loveable characters, a strong female lead, humor and romance, Continue reading “Review: Rook By Sharon Cameron”
Ratings: 
(5/5)
Trigger Warning: contains some scenes of graphic violence and torture. PG-13
This is my review for the second book of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard. Do not read this review if you have not read the previous book, as this review contains spoilers from the previous book. To see my review of Red Queen, click here.
If I thought Red Queen was “sweet” torture–you know, the kind of book that is really bad for your emotional stability but so addictive that you can’t help but want to keep reading it–then Glass Sword was, simply put, pure devastation. This book wrecked me, left emotional scars that will take a long time to heal, and made me have trust issues. Victoria Aveyard does not pull any punches, so if you are planning on picking this book up, readers beware: you are in for abrasive, ruthless protagonists, a violent psychopathic antagonist, and of course let’s not forget the disastrous fates of some beloved characters from the previous book.
Continue reading “Review: Glass Sword (Red Queen#2) by Victoria Aveyard”
Happy Tuesday guys! I am here with September’s first Top Ten Tuesday post, a weekly original meme made by the lovelies at The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s post is a tv-themed topic, and so I am going to list a few books that I wish were made into TV shows.
This is my review of the third and final installment of the Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi. To see my review of the previous books, click here (book 1) and here (book 2).
Review: 
(4/5)
That awkward moment when you are supposed to review a book but it’s so incredibly, inexpressibly great that you really have no idea how to articulate your thoughts so you could explain the magic that this book is.
Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi was everything I wanted it to be, which is to say a lot because my expectations for this book was probably as high as Mt. Everest. After the way Unravel Me ended, I couldn’t help but want to see how the writer ties it all up in the last and final book of the series. Safe to say, I was not disappointed at all.
Continue reading “Review: Ignite Me (Shatter Me#3) by Tahereh Mafi”
New month, new beginnings. Reading about everybody’s August Recap made me take a trip down memory lane. August was a hectic month, where I had to do a lot of adjusting, and I am not simply talking about my blogging life. August was the month when I Continue reading “August Recaps and September Resolutions”
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and Bookish, makes me really sad, because it reminds me again of the countless number of books out there just waiting to be read and I do not have enough time in my life to read them all.
Continue reading “Ten Books That Have Been Collecting Dust On My TBR Shelf”
The lovely Aentee from Read At Midnight have made an incredibly interesting reading challenge “Pokemon Indigo League Readathon”. Not much into Pokemon, but I am a bit obsessed with reading challenges, and since this one was made by Aentee ofcourse I would join! It is a 3 week challenge in which I am supposed to read 8 books (which is a great length of time I think) and it starts from August 14 to September 4th. But you can jump right in any time during the challenge, by creating a sign-up post like this one.
For more information about this readathon, visit Aentee’s post here.
Here are the books that I plan on reading for the challenge:
Rating: 4/5 ☕☕☕☕
Last week I reviewed The Wrath and The Dawn by Renee Ahdeih, a retelling of the classic One Thousand and One Nights story, and I found myself having a rather negative unpopular opinion about it. Deciding that it would be best if TWATD and I parted our ways before our relationship could become more toxic, I chose to try my luck with E.K. Johnston’s A Thousand Nights instead. And I have a lot to say about it.
Continue reading “Review: A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston”