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“The Vanishing Half” By Brit Bennett Review

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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?

I had some high expectations because once again I fell on the highly positive comments people on Goodreads have about this book. And let me tell you that this book doesn’t live up to all these good comments people have about this book. And I quickly DNF-ed it maybe like 10 chapters into this book

The writing style in this book is very very poor, it didn’t feel like it was written by a person who have written multiple books. It feel more like it was written by a elementary school child.

The plot here is very very boring, we fall twin sisters who essentially grow apart, they live in different cities, have their own lives and no contact with each other. And the entire plot is that one twin sister wants to rebuild the relationship with her twin but the second twin doesn’t want to. And to be honest it feels more like a family melodrama than anything else. And I don’t like that category to put it a nice and easy way.

The entire plot was very very drawn out, too long then it needed to be, uninteresting and very boring. The plot itself was the definition of torture and how you shouldn’t write a book

When it comes to the characters in this book they are bad, they are very shallow, flat and very very annoying. And I had very hard time even trying to like them, or finding something about them which would make me interested in them.

I didn’t read any of the other books of this author but after trying to read this book, I dont will read anything more from this author because this book have discouraged me from doing it.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Iliad” By Homer Review

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One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals.

To be very honest here I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book even thou a lot of people on the internet claims that this book is very good, I learned my lesson to not trust people on the internet with books.

Again to be honest here I don’t have any strong feelings about this book, I didn’t dislike it and I didn’t like it either. 

I personally struggled a lot to finish this book because I found it uninteresting and I just didn’t have enough will power to finish it but in the end I did finish it. 

I’m glad that I read this book but after reading this book I became very neutral to this book. I didn’t like it nor dislike it. And to be honest here, if I didn’t listen to the audiobook of this book I wouldn’t be able to finish it because its very heavy and I just count focus on it for longer portions of time.

For me personally this book was a very slow read, because all the things happening in this book were not so interesting to me but also the way this book was written in had made all the action slow so that it could describe it better in a way. 

One of the things about this book is that it keeps building up to the point where the Trojan horse will show up at one point in this book, but it never does show up and it really annoyed me here because whats the point building the plot to a moment and then the moment never comes ?

This book had a lot of heavy and hard moments to get through in this book, and some moments in this book were actually okay and I liked them. But the most of this book is hard and heavy to get through.

The writing style here was very heavy and I just count bring myself to like it. And I’m not sorry about it. I didn’t like the writing style because it felt very heavy and hard.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Godfather” By Mario Puzo Review

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Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. The seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and the allegiance to family—these are the themes that have resonated with millions of readers around the world and made The Godfather the definitive novel of the violent subculture that, steeped in intrigue and controversy, remains indelibly etched in our collective consciousness.

This book has to easily be the best book I’ve read this entire year (2024). I never expected this book to be so incredible as it was.

From the very moment I started reading this book I was sucked into it and I just couldn’t pull myself away from this book. And even when I wasn’t reading this book I was thinking about and what will happen next in this book. Which was really surprising because I couldn’t never actually finish the movie based off of this book which is a paradox I will not understand.

The plot in this book was purely gold. It was very interesting, enjoyable, fascinating, tense and instant attention grabber. There was a lot of action in this book but there wasn’t actually a lot of killing happening, it was a decent amount of killing happened but we actually weren’t there when the killing happened but rather we got told by different character something like “he is dead, so and so person killed them” and we would just move on to the next thing happening. Which I found to be a more tense solution than the author writing the murder scenes in details which never worked for me personally.

The edition I have of this book has almost 600 pages, but it really felt very short because I read this book so fast because I so sucked into this book. And after reading this book I fully understand why so many people love this book, it is because this book is so very good, and it is easily in my top 10 all time favorite books and it might or might not be the number one for the moment.

All the characters in this book are very very incredible. It will very easy to relate to them but more importantly they felt like real human beings which I personally wouldn’t have any problems being friends about. 

But also you know that the Corleone family is up to no good, you can help but root for them and see them survive and be successful in whatever shade things they are doing. And thats what happened to me during the process of reading this book. 

The writing style in this book is very incredible because it was like the author knew what words to use to grab my attention and to not let it go to the very end of the book. And as I have said above somewhere, I was completely clued to the book and the writing style was one of the reason why I was clued to it. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Nightmares and Dreamscapes” By Stephen King Review

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A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns… and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is back with a powerful new collection of stories – a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume.

Let me start this review by saying that this book is hell of a long book with a lot of short stories inside of it. And by the way I already reviewed every single short story in this book before actually writing the review about this book as a whole. 

My edition of this book has 836 pages which is a pretty decent length if you ask me. And for me this is very long when it comes to short stories written by Stephen King, because as you might know Stephen King’s short stories doesn’t work for me and I just end up very much disliking them.

For me Stephen King’s short stories just lack something which I cant really put a figure to, and because of this paradox I end up disliking them a lot.

Of course some of the short stories in this book were better than others but still I disliked them. But of course some I disliked more and some I disliked less. But still the dislike were present for all of the short stories in this book.

The majority of the short stories in this book just didn’t feel like they were written by Stephen King because the characters were bad, shallow, boring, uninteresting and flat but the plot and writing style didn’t feel neither like something created by the master of horror himself. 

To be honest I think I should take a break from Stephen King because me and him lately aren’t working out. Because all the books written by him I’ve read this year ended up on the lower raking side of things b because I didn’t like them as much as I wanted to. I think it is just me this year who end of being way too hard to books, because 60% of the books I’ve read until June this year (2024) ended up having a rating of one star. So its me either picking the wrong books for me or me being way too harsh to books this year.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Only One Left” By Riley Sager Review

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Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

This book wasn’t a master piece but I still have a lot of fun with this one.

The characters here weren’t perfect, in fact they were very very far from being perfect. The characters in this book were hard to tell apart. So I didn’t get a lot of those small clues here and there while reading this book which it turns out took a lot out of this book for me.

The writing style here was okay, but from what I read about this book on Goodreads before reading this book I had a lot of expectations for the writing style because Ive read it was very good which it wasn’t. So be warned, dont be fooled by people on the internett. 

The plot twist at the end was very good, but because I couldn’t tell the characters I didn’t like it as much if I had better control about who is who in this book. 

The plot here reminded me a little bit about “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware which I really like. But the difference between this book and  “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware is that “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware does actually have a good plot and good character not like this book. 

The plot here was for sure somewhat unique but the way it was presented to us wasn’t as good as it could have been if the author tried a little bit harder. 

But I need to give this book one point for making me want to read more books from the author which I will do at some point. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Flatshare” By Beth O’Leary Review

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Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window.

I think this book is my final Rodeo with contemporary books because I truly hated this book, and I just very quickly DNF-ed it. 

All of the characters in this book annoyed the shit out of me.  Tiffy the main character in this book imbecile who plots all the time how to get back with her ex-boyfriend. Like she honest understand when someone wants to be left alone and not be bothered by you.

The entire plot is made very very badly, to the point where the plot is almost nonexistent because all the shit which doesn’t matter for the main plot keeps getting throw in our faces all the time during reading this book. 

This book also talks a lot about emotional abuse amongst other types of abuse which well didn’t go well with me and what I like in books. 

To put this book in a very simple term, dont read it because its a waste of time and money. Its very boring, drags for far too long, uninteresting and will torture you a lot.

This book put me in the biggest reading slump ever, I didn’t have so big reading slump ever as I had after reading this book. 

This book was a very painful reading to say at the very least. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Verity” By Colleen Hoover Review

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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Another book written by Colleen Hoover which I DNF-ed and which was very very bad. Why does so many people love her books so much ? All the books I’ve read written by her and just good for nothing else than to burn them after beating the shit out of them. 

The plot in this book was nonexistent and really it was a pure torture trying to read this book, so thats why I DNF-ed it so fast as I did. There are so many red flags in this book about this whole book and how are people liking this book or any of Colleen Hoover’s books? That’s this decades paradox I will never understand.

Did you hear about plot holes in books before ? This book doesn’t have them but instead they have plot craters. Because there are at least 15 plot holes I can tell you about within the first 10 chapters of this book. 

The characters here are very very bad, they are selv centered, and they are so shallow, annoying and uninteresting. To me all of the characters felt like the same f-ing character and I just couldn’t tell them apart.

My main reason for hating the characters in this book is when one of the characters attempts to murder 2 people, and the main character acts like that character just eat her ice cream like “its not a big deal”. The main character just justifies the attempt and forgives the character like double murder attempt happens everyday to everyone. Perfectly normal thing isn’t it ? Happens to everyone all the time isn’t it?

The writing style is oh boy, I dont know what to say to not be offensive and keep it under 18+. The best thing I can do is to say that the writing style felt like it was written by a horny 9 year old boy. Which isn’t a good thing when we are talking about books which you want people to like. 

Goodreads rank this book as a “thriller” book, but it feels more like “young adult worthy of hell fire” book than anything else than that. 

Just writing about this book and Colleen Hoover as a author gets me so so so angry. And the reason behind this is because I hate all over books and I dont understand why people like her so much and why people on Tik Tok hype her books so much because they aren’t worthy of the attention or even space in the book store.

The main problem I have with this book is that it exists. Which it shouldn’t.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life” By Jordan B. Peterson Review

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In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

This book is the sequel to “12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos” by of course none other than  Jordan B. Peterson. 

This book isn’t as good as the first book but still you will learn far share of things from it. Jordan b Peterson gives a good and strong message in this book and teaches us how to have a functional and good life and after reading this second book I like him even more.

The writing style is heavy as in the first book, but in this book because the heavy writing style forces you think over things which Jordan B Peterson have written about in this book. This book has more a academical writing style than the more typical non fiction and non academical books but still I personally enjoyed reading this book a lot. 

The rules in this book are more obscure if you will than the rules from the first book but they are as important as the rules from the first book.

I know that I’ve said in the previous Jordan B Peterson book review, but I’m gonna say it again, reading his are fully worth it because you will learn a lot from them because there is a lot of wisdom in his books and this book isn’t any different. 

This book is very interesting, enjoyable and very helpful. And at the same time this book is hard to put down because Jordan B Peterson is very good at sucking you into his books and not letting you go until the very end of the book. Which is one of the things I love about his books.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Paper Towns” By John Green Review

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Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew.

Ive heard a lot of good things about this book and well to put it simple, this books didn’t live up to all the good things I’ve heard about this book. 

The reason why I decided to read this book is because I love “the fault in our stars” which of course is by the same author, and the one of the workers at the bookstore I purchase my books told me that if I loved “the fault in our stars” I will love this book as well. And well I didn’t,  so thanks you to the person who have recommended this book to me (you know who you are.)

To put it very simple this book is all the things you dont want a book to be. And by this I mean boring, uninteresting, meh plot, and the characters are as bad as it they can be. 

Margo, which of course is the female main character is very very bad and very self absorbed which really really pissed me off because she was always acted like the damn world revolved all around her. 

And Quentin which is the male main character was a little bit better, but went Margo bolts from the town he immediately jumps to the conclusion that he is meant to find her and that margo is playing some kind of twisted version of hide and seek with him. 

Both of the main characters in this book really proves us from start to finish that they are typical, not thinking teenagers and well it didn’t help me to like them but instead helped me to hate them more and more with each chapter of this book. 

The plot here was okay for the most part, but I was very very far of being a fan of it. It had some good moments here and there but for the most part it was very boring and uninteresting and I just could not keep my focus during reading this book because I wanted more to look at the paint dry than reading this book. 

The writing style here was okay, but far from the best I’ve seen, I’ve read one book by this author before so I know that he can do better than what he did in this book. But I hated this book so much that I dont think I won’t be reading any more books from this author 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones” By James Clear Review

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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

To be honest this book is one of the best books ive read this year, and yeah this book deserves all the hype it gets because it is very very good. 

There are dozens of books by this point about how we can change our habits to better habits, and I read a lot of them but this one is the best of all of them because it doesn’t recycles the same information as the dozens of other books about the same topic but rather it gives us new information which are more relatable and easier to put into work in real life when you are done with this book. 

This book makes the process of removing bad habits and establishing new habits very easy because it gives all the motivation we need to actually do it but also it gives us a very easy way how we can do it. 

The language in this book is very easy and simple, which really makes this book a good for everyone no matter if you are still in high school or if you have a master’s degree in psychology. Everyone can read this book and take something out of it. 

The writing style here is incredible because it didn’t feel like reading a  heavy nonfiction book but rather it felt like take a chat with the author. The writing style was very down to earth and very easy to understand which really made me give this book some extra points for it.

This book is also very hard to put it down, because it really gives you a very very hard time to put it away because it completely sucks you into it. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5