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“Kenobi” By John Jackson Miller Review

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In this original novel set between the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi comes to the aid of the residents of Tatooine during his exile. But he struggles with his new mission when he realizes that protecting Luke Skywalker-the last hope of the galaxy-means setting aside his compassion and his Jedi warrior training, for the future of the galaxy lies not with Obi-Wan Kenobi, but with a mystical desert recluse known only by the name of Crazy Old Ben.

I gotta admit that this one isn’t the best star wars books I’ve read. This book is okay and somehow fun to read because we get to see more of what Obi-Wan was doing on Tatooine after the events of Episode 3. But other than that it has some other fun moments but for the most part. However I gotta admit that this book had disappointed me in a way.

The thing I found most disappointing in this book is that I thought it will be about Obi-Wan, since its named “Kenobi” and it has Obi-Wan on the cover but the majority of this book isn’t even about him. He is in the book yes, but he pops up every couple of pages. And I gotta say that he was in around 20% of this book but the remaining 80% of this book was not about him. But Obi-Wan being at Tatooine is critical to the events in this book but we don’t get to know his thoughts and opinions about the actions unfolding in this book. Because we as the readers we only get very few and short passages from his point of view. Which really got me angry on this book and on the author in a way because I bought and read this book to read about Obi-Wan and not some Tatooine hillbillies.

I gotta admit that this book is more like a desert western rather than a star wars book, even thou it has a lightsaber moment at the end of this book. But I gotta admit that a part of me liked this in a way because for me it was like taking a unique approach to the Star Wars universe, even thou I don’t want to see that happening often when it comes to Star Wars universe.

The pacing in this book was over odd for me personally in this book. Because it was like the first half of this book was building into this big climax and then when we get into the second half of this book we get a new path and the book and the plot itself builds back up again for a new climax and for the real conclusion of the book.

The characters here are meh to be honest, even Obi Wan in this book feels more like a watered down version of himself from Episode 3 which happened very short time before the plot in this book begins. 

The characters are very not memorable, and really I didn’t remember their names after I finished this book which really shows me personally at least how mediocre and average “Joe”s the characters were in this book. 

We follow the plot from the new characters point of view in this book, and because of this a lot of this story isn’t spend on the Obi-Wan we know and love but rather the local people seeing the new guy in town and wondering who is and where he came from. And of course the new guy in town is “Ben Kenobi” which might explain what I said above about Obi-Wan having a feeling like he is a watered down version of himself.

The writing style in this book was very average and not a lot to talk about. It didn’t feel like it was a good choice for a star wars book, because the writing style felt like it would do better in a western themed book rather than a star wars book. It focused heavily on the gun action and the schemes aspects rather than what you would expect from a Star Wars books. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Joe Biden” By Evan Osnos Review

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Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest – fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship – an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.

The main reason why I deiced to read this book was that I wanted to learn more about Joe Biden without reading a 500 + pages long book on him. I was never a fan of Joe Biden and I wanted to learn more about him to change my opinion about him. 

This book tries to paint Joe Biden was a good guy but it gives us the opposite effect. Since it talks about people who he had disagreements with and all the questionable things he said about people he didn’t like. Its easy to say that this book didn’t help me to change my opinion about him but rather made me agree more with my opinion about him. 

This book is under 200 pages long, but reading this book felt like infinity and like this book would never end. 

The majority about this book is about how bad of a president candidate Donald Trump is and how much better president would be Joe Biden. Which isn’t a Joe Biden biography but rather a woke commentary about why you shouldn’t vote for republicans. 

This book doesn’t have any chronological order of events in Joe Biden life because it keeps jumping back and forward in time without any correlation. It starts with talking about Joe Biden senator, then it goes to talking about Joe Biden being the vice president, then it goes back in time to talk about how Joe Biden became a candidate for vice president under Barack Obama’s presidency, then it goes to talk about Joe and Jill living together, then it goes to back to talk about Joe’s first wife dying etc. 

This book is all over the place and doesn’t have any timeline it follows. So if you are looking for an actually biography about Joe Biden then this book isn’t the choice for that.

The wiring style felt like it belongs more to a blog rather than to a biography book which this book is put under on Goodreads. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Fifty Shades Darker” By E.L. James Review

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Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life. Erotic, sparkling and suspenseful, Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.

With this book I’m done with this series, I cant take it anymore because the more books I read in this series the more I suffer.

The writing style gets even more worse than in the previous books in this series. And I was so foolish to thing that a writing style in the first book couldn’t get any worse but in this book “the insufferable writing style” gets a whole new level added to the ranks.

After reading this book I really found out the series I will hate the most in my life. And of course the winner here is this series. You cant write anything worse than this series. Because this series is the benchmark of anything bad in world.

The plot in this book is so insufferable. With each chapter you go deeper into this book the more torture this book brings you and the more ridiculous it becomes. And yes I gotta admit that I DNF-ed this book after reading 250 pages of this book.

The characters in this book are so cartoonish that it really makes this book to a parody of a book. All the characters are so cringy and the dialogs between Christian Gray and Anastasia Steel is so far fetched and lame as fuck. 

I personally think that a grade school kid would be able to write much better dialogs and characters than what we get in this book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Royal Assassin” By Robin Hobb Review

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Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king’s assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd, remaining in the distant mountains. But love and events of terrible urgency draw him back to the court at Buckkeep, and into the deadly intrigues of the royal family. Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims in their wake. The kingdom is also under assault from within, as treachery threatens the throne of the ailing king. In this time of great danger, the fate of the kingdom may rest in Fitz’s hands—and his role in its salvation may require the ultimate sacrifice.

I gotta admit that this second book in the “The Farseer Trilogy” is much better than the first book. 

This book builds on the foundations we get in the first book in this trilogy. And because of this book expands the trilogy in a way makes this book so much more fun than the first book.

The plot in this book is very good and very interesting. I got sucked into this book so much that I didn’t notice when I finished this book. And if you have read some of my reviews before reading this one, you will know that I love when I get sucked into a book so much and I give some extra points for that.

This book and this trilogy is easily one of the best fantasy series I’ve read so far. For me personally this series so far is very close to being as amazing for me as the “A song of ice and fire” series and “The Witcher” series.

The characters in this book are so amazing. There is a lot of character development happening if you compare the characters in this book to who they were at the beginning of the first book in this trilogy. 

The characters in this book feel like real human beings because they have so much depth to them and each of the characters have their own unique personalities. And you find yourself identifying with them in a way. Which really makes me give this book some extra points. 

The only less good thing in this book for me personally. Is that at times the plots drags and is expands on situations which could have been cut shorter in a way.

The ending of this book is very good, it leaves us at a cliffhanger yes. But this only adds more to this trilogy because it makes you want to grab immediately the third book in this trilogy to see what happens next. 

The ending of this book is very satisfying and it really makes you proud in a way that you were able to finish this bad boy of a book. 

The writing style in this book is very amazing because it is like the author know what words to use to completely grab your attention and to not let it go until the very end of this book.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“The Meek One” By Fyodor Dostoevsky Review

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‘I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn’t soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.’ In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.

I gotta say that this book is easily my favorite book written by Fyodor Dostoevsky I’ve read so far at least. The biggest aspected which made me like this book is that this book makes you really think about the topics this book talks about.

The characters in this book are few yes. But the once we get in this book are positively complicated which for me only added to the aspect of me liking them more. Because they felt like real human beings rather than fictional characters.

The plot in this book gives you a lot of questions but it doesn’t give you conclusive answers for those questions. For me personally made this book so much better and so much more fun in a way.

This book is very short so it doesn’t give me a lot to talk about, since its only 57 pages long or at least my copy of this book is that long.

The writing style in this book is meh to be honest. Ive read some of Fyodor Dostoevsky books in the past so I k ow that he can normally have much better writing style than he had in this book.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Moby-Dick” By Herman Melville Review

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The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous monomania, they sail in pursuit of the monster.

I gotta say that I was afraid of reading this book, because I have heard a lot of good about this book but I know that the more good I read about a book on the interest than the chances that the book is overhyped are very high. But after reading this book I gotta say that this book is okay. 

I need to admit that this book is much longer than I expected it to be. And after reading the entire book, I need to get a little bit honest here and say that at times this book drags for far too long. A lot of parts could have easily been removed and it would make this book so much better and shorter.

This book gives a lot of fun and in depth depiction of sea navigation and how it was like being a sailor back in 1820s and 1830s. But the aspect of whale hunting in this book made me really take away some points of this book. 

This book took awhile to read, because I needed to take some days long breaks from this book. Because a lot of parts of this book drags for too long and it kept making me uninterested but I wanted to finish this book. So when I was getting very close to DNF-ing this book I took some days long breaks before returning back to it. 

The writing style in this book was okay. I wasn’t taken back by it or anything like that. To be honest I am very neutral about the writing style in this book. I don’t have any strong feelings or thoughts about the writing style in this book. 

The characters in this book were okay to be honest. Im writing this review 2 days after I finished this book and I don’t remember any of the characters in this book. That’s because they weren’t memorable or very likable which would make me remember them. The characters in this book felt like different versions of the the same character which really didn’t help me with liking the characters in this book. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“You Like It Darker” By Stephen King Review

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“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

This book is yet again another short stories collection of short stories written by Stephen King. I gotta say the more of the new books written by Stephen King I read the more I want to downgrade him as my favorite author of all time. Because for me personally his books written after the 1990s doesn’t impress nor do they make me fall in love with them as his books before and during the 1990s does. 

After reading all the short stories in this book I started to think that this book is just a collection of short stories Stephen King’s decided weren’t good enough but still decide to publish to get the paycheck from publishing this book. 

All the short stories in this book were a 1 stars reads fro me personality. And most of them dragged for far too long than they needed to me. So I found myself so many times to just to be skimming through those short stories.

If you are looking for good horror short stories you will be much better of reading the “Goosebumps” books which are more better and much scarier than the short stories in this book.

To be honest he only “dark” things about the short stories in this book are how bad they are. Most of the short stories in this book give off the feeling that Stephen King is back to taking drugs and back to his problem with alcohol.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Unruly Human Hearts” By Barbara Southard Review

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Elizabeth Tilton, a devout housewife, shares liberal ideals with her husband, Theodore Tilton, and their pastor and close friend Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, both influential reformers of the Reconstruction Era who promote suffrage for women and former slaves and advocate for the spiritual power of love rather than Calvinistic retribution. 

I got a PDF version pre-release to read and review it. To be very honest I had very little expectations for this book but after reading it I need to say that this book is very good.

Its important to mention that this book is based of a true story, of a woman named Elizabeth Tilton. 

This book explores the Henry Ward Beecher scandal through the eyes of Elizabeth Tilton. I know it sounds not very interesting but when you start reading this book you realized that it is actually interesting and enjoyable. This book talks about things like “free love” in 19th century America and sexual revolutions of women in 19th century America. 

This book follows 2 perspectives throughout this book. The major perspective in this book is the main character Elizabeth Tilton during the beginning of 1866. And the second perspective is again Elizabeth but this time its at the end of her life in 1897.

The plot of this book is very good and very well written because it talks about joys, sorrows, frustrations and anger of the perfect soap opera and in 19th century America.

As I said above the plot and the entire book is very interesting and it really sucks you into the plot to the point where you don’t notice the time flying by while reading this book. 

The written style of this book is very very good, but at the same time is very approbate with time this book is set in. Its like the author has a very unique skill to write a with the 19th America writing style but modernize it in a way which would be relevant for people reading this book in 2025 and behind.

The writing style is very engaging and really grabs your attention and doesn’t let it go until the very end of the book. Which I personally love when it happens because it helps the reader to get more immersed in the plot of the book.

In a way its hard to pin this book down to any specific category since its like historical drama but at the same time this book reads as psychological thriller. Which really impressed me.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“A Court of Thorns and Roses” By Sarah J. Maas Review

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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.

I am very surprised with this book. Because I was expecting to not like this book and DNF it along the way. Since I thought that this series was overhyped. But after having read this book I gotta say that I was wrong with my assumptions.

The plot in this book is very unique and very good at the same time. It drags you into the plot instantly and it doesn’t let you go until the very end of this book. I was very obsessed with this book while reading it and I just couldn’t force myself to stop reading this book because I was so deeply consumed by the plot.

The characters in this book are pure gold. They are so well written and so unique. Each of the characters in this book have their own unique personalities and something which sets them apart from the rest of the characters. And if you have read my previous reviews, you know that as long as the characters are good I wont mind a shitty plot. And this book has incredible characters and even better plot. 

The writing style in this book is like the author knew what words to use to complete grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end of this book. This is my first book written by Sarah J Maas, and if she has so incredible writing style in her other books as she had in this one. She might easily overtake Stephen King as my favorite author and become my favorite author.

The ending leaves us at a pretty big cliffhanger, which is so unfair because I have to wait until my second book of this series arrives. Because I have ordered it right after I finished this book.  

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Police” By Jo Nesbø Review

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When a police officer is found murdered at the scene of an old unsolved murder case that he was involved in investigating, it can hardly be a coincidence. When the same thing happens to two other officers in a matter of months the pattern is as clear as it is terrifying. None of the old cases were ever solved. The killings are extremely brutal and the police have no leads. What’s more, they’re missing their best investigator.

This book is the 10th book in the “Harry Hole” book series created by no other than Jo Nesbø himself. One of the best crime novel authors I come across so far in my book journey. 

I gotta be honest, this book and the 2 previous once were a big misses for me personally. Because I didn’t like them as much as I liked the book in this series up to book 7. And then after book 7 the whole series started going very downhill for me.

This book has a very generic plot for any police deceptive book in existence. The plot in this book is about a serial killer going solely after cops and the only person who can catch the serial killer is lone main character. 

There are a lot of moments in this book where it foes to hell and just becomes very boring and uninteresting and the situations drag for way too long than they needed to be. I personally think that at least 50 pages could have been removed from this book and it only would have made it better.

The characters in this book all over the place, and even Harry Hole doesn’t feel like Harry Hole in this book. He feels more like a imposter than the Harry Hole we spend 9 books getting to know. But at the same time all the female characters in this book are very manipulative. Like one female character falsely accuses a male character of rape. And the rest of the female characters aren’t better than that.

The writing style is the worst it have been this entire series so far. The writing style didn’t even feel like it was written by Jo Nesbø but rather written by a very newbie ghost writer.

The ending in this book is ridiculous. When you read the end you are left thinking “this cant be the end, my copy must be missing a few pages”. Or at least it was what I was thinking when I read the ending of this book. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5