“The Devil’s Star” By Jo Nesbø Review

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work.

This book is the 5th book in the “Harry Hole” series, and so far the series been going up and down for me personally.

The plot in this book is about a serial killer running around in Oslo, Norway who is obsessed pentagrams. Which made me expect some kind of satanism themed stuff happen in this book which of course didn’t happen.

The plot was interesting when the action was happening, the action of a murder scene or the investigation was very interesting and enjoyable. But when the action wasn’t on, which means when Harry was doing something else which didn’t involve the investigation was on the very edge of becoming boring. Which means that I have some very mixed opinions about the plot.

But also in this book we get sucked deeper into the sub-plot which was happening in this book and in the previous 2 books in this series which of course is the corruption in the police force and which is the reason why Harry still has a job as a police detective even thou he struggles with alcohol and shows up drunk or drinks at the job.

The characters here were very mixed here, of course I like Harry Hole a lot, and I find Oleg to be a very good side character which makes Harry’s personality really shine and show Harry not only as a alcoholic which happens to be a very good detective. I also liked a lot Rakel and wish that we could get more of her in this book which hopefully the next books in this series will fulfill the wish.

But when it comes to the rest of the characters they were pretty uninteresting, and I found myself not caring about them as much as I wanted to. 

The writing style here was very good, because it was like the author knew what words to use to fully grab my attention and to not let me stop reading this book until the very end. 

There is no cliffhanger at the end, which really doesn’t give me the urge to finish this series as fast as possible which I wish it would. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Treasure Island” By Robert Louis Stevenson Review

Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, ‘the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.’ G. S. Fraser terms it ‘an utterly original book’ and goes on to write: ‘There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.’

Ive heard a lot of good about this book, and because of it I had a lot of expectations for this book which this book didn’t live up to.

I personally found the plot to be very boring and uninteresting. For the most part it felt out of place, but at the same time it was most meant for the younger readers, so maybe thats the reason why I didn’t like the plot and found it boring.

I need to give this book some credit because, this book was the thing which made pirate themed movies, shows and books so popular, and don’t get me wrong I love the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.

The characters here, were very flat, predictable, boring and uninteresting. They almost like the author just needed some character who no one would care about to care along the larger picture of the plot.

This book overall, is a very almost too generic treasure hunt book, and at this point it is too generic because the are thousands and thousands of treasure hunt movies, shows and books which are exactly as this one but with different character and by different author. 

The writing style was very old timey and very heavy with old English, but I’m gonna give this book a pass on this one because it was written in 1882, so of course the language and the writing in this book will be very outdated from what we expect today.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“After We Fell” By Anna Todd Review

Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about first her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim. Tessa’s life begins to come unglued. Nothing is what she thought it was. Not her friends. Not her family. The one person she should be able to rely on, Hardin, is furious when he discovers the massive secret she’s been keeping. And rather than being understanding, he turns to sabotage.

This book is the third book in the “after” series by Anna Todd. To be honest this book took a longer time to read than the previous two books in this series, because I start to get tired of this series, and all the drama between Tessa and Hardin.

I personally feel like im getting close to the point where I’m getting sick of the back and forth drama and fucked up situations between Tessa and Hardin, at this point I’ve read 3 books in this series, and each of those books had over 800 pages in them.

While I was reading this book, I had some many thoughts about why Tessa didn’t leave Hardin at this point? This was the first time it happened to me while reading this series.

The plot in this book, wasn’t the great as the plot in the first and second book in this series, I can honestly say that the series is going down the hill with this book. But this series is far better than “Fifty Shades Of Grey”.

The plot was interesting but at times it was getting very close to the edge of becoming boring. 

The characters here were good, but in this book I started having problems with Tessa, because in one moment she says she is done with Hardin and in the next moment she is running back to him. Which is annoying me so very much in this book, because whats so hard to with sticking to what you say.

I found myself liking more and more throughout this book Tessa’s father which came in big into this series at the very end of book two, and he becomes one of the major side characters in this book. Which really was good, because it have taken a lot of drama away from Hardin and Tessa and put it on Tessa’s father.

We also get a huge plot twist from one of the character in this book, which really blow my mind in a way but at the same time I was expecting something like the event which happened to occur but not from the character which it came from.

But still I found myself to be consumed in this book, and read in front to back without any major hesitation.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“A Little Princess” By Frances Hodgson Burnett Review

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl’s fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess , one of the best-loved stories in all of children’s literature.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book, because on the one side it was sweet and I liked it but on the second side I didn’t like it so much as I wanted to.

The beginning of this book was very sweet and nice, because the main character Sarah, was a very sweet child which I loved but as the book continues to go further and further Sarah was becoming way too perfect, which really made me dislike here.

Its important to say that this book is meant for kids rather than adults. And because I read this book as an adult might explain the low rating I gave this book. Very fast Sarah became Boringly perfect, and I know how harsh it will sounds like, but I know why the adults at the school didn’t like Sarah, thats because she was way too perfect.

There were things I liked about this book which of course is that this book prompts  being nice to people no matter how pretty their are, how wealthy they are or whatever else there might be involved. 

The characters here well not the greatest, Sarah was a very bad character because as I’ve said before, she is way too damn perfect, which made me dislike her very very fast. To be honest I never went from liking a character to truly hating a character so fast as I’ve did with Sarah while reading this book.

As of the rest of the characters, they all were ignorant, shallow, and helpless which really didn’t help me liking this book. 

The writing style makes it very easy and you don’t have to be a genius to see solely from the writing style that this book was meant for children.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Witches of Vardø” By Anya Bergman Review

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcraft. When Zigri, desperate and grieving after the loss of her husband and son, embarks on an affair with the local merchant, it’s not long before she is sent to the fortress at Vardø, to be tried and condemned as a witch.

Its important to say that I didn’t know anything about this book nor the author before picking up this book. This book was recommended to me by a staff members where I buy my books at.

Its also important to say that I DNF-ed this book after having read like 55% of it, but I will explain why I DNF-ed this book later on in this review.

In this book we follow two perspectives, one perspective is from Anna and the second perspective is from Ingeborg. And in my opinion the perspective from Anna was much more interesting than the perspective from Ingeborg. However both of the perspective were pretty boring and uninteresting.

The beginning of this book was actually interesting, but the further it got the more and more uninteresting and flat it became. It has something to do that the action we got in this book was written in a very uninteresting way. But also there were a lot of moments in this book were there like impossible moments would arrive and the characters were like “no worries I can climb a cliff side with only my hands and feet”.

The plot itself had good premise of witch hunt in Norway in the 1660s, but the way it was just presented to us just didn’t grab me and made interested enough to make me finish the book. Overall the way the plot it was presented to us gave me a huge feeling that this book was meant for preteen audience rather than it qualifying to the young adult category. But at the same time this book cant be meant for preteen audience because this book has some graphic scenes of sex and killing accused women of being witches.

The characters here were pretty flat, boring, uninteresting and shallow. Ingeborg had some character to her, but the rest of the characters we get in this book felt like the same character over and over again. And I personally had a very hard time remembering who’s who. 

The characters here weren’t engaging enough, and they were very hard to like. But also the dialogs between the characters felt like neither of the characters wanted to talk with each other 

The writing style here was very flat to be honest, it felt like it was written by a 15 year old rather than a 57-year old woman. The writing style feels like it was written for a younger audience but the scenes of sex and killing points towards a more older audience.

There were a lot of action in this book, but all that action which we got in this book, didn’t have any details and it felt more like it was just like “this happened, then that and that happened”. All the action in this book was briefly touched and nothing more than that.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Finders Keepers” By Stephen King Review

The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

This book is the second book in the “Bill Hodges” series written of course by Stephen King. 

To be honest after watching the “Mr. Mercedes” tv show, I decided to reading this book series as well because the show is based of on this book series.

A part of me really liked the plot in this one because at times it gave me “misery” vibes, even thou it is very far away from the iconic “misery” book. 

However the plot itself has its ups and downs, but the downs in my opinion are much more frequent than its ups. It started very good, but the further and further it continues the less and less fun I was having with this book. 

The plot had been boring and uninteresting at times, but the moments it was actually interesting, there was very very interesting. And after finishing this book I needed to take one day to think about this book before I sat down to review this book. Thats because I was very mixed about this book. Because a part of me liked this book and the second part of me didn’t like this book.

This book has multiple perspectives it follows, so it was kind of hard to keep track of everything which was happening. In this perspective we follow the perspectives of Bill, Holly, Morris and Pete. Of course if you don’t know Bill and Holly are the private detectives, Morris is the bad guy and Pete is the kid who done something which he shouldn’t and got in trouble for it.

I personally loved Bill Hodges, Jerome and Holly Gibny as characters but when it comes to the rest of characters . Bill, Jerome and Holly were very good character even thou this book doesn’t focus on them so much as I would want it to. I personally would want this book to tell the plot from solely their perspectives which would make this book so much better. And skip the storytelling from Pete’s and Morrie’s perspectives, which for me personally was at times uninteresting and boring.  And it pretty much took the wind out if it in my opinion.

The characters (expect of Bill, Jerome and Holly) were in my opinion very flat and for the most part uninteresting. And I just couldn’t bring myself to care about them, because I just couldn’t ,are myself like them, or relegate to them in anyway.

Don’t get me wrong, this book isn’t all bad, you will be entertained while you read it because the plot has a unique way of telling a basic plot line. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Ignite Me” By Tahereh Mafi Review

With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn’t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won’t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that’s not all he wants with her.

This book is the third book in the “Shatter Me” series, and I need to say it again, Im loving this series more and more, with each book I read in this series.

To be fully honest, this book was an emotional roller coaster, which I loved a lot. There were huge love triangle drama in this book, and Juliette final made a final decision in her love triangle thing going on. 

The beginning of this book was slow, but it was very very enjoyable to read. And the further you got in this book the more and more action this book began to have. Which really was very interesting and enjoyable. And while reading this book I lost all track of time because I was so sucked into this book.

The character became even better in this book, and if you compare the characters in this book with the same characters in the first book then you will see the huge character development which every character had got in this series.

The characters here are so unique, and they feel like real human beings, which really made me fall in love with them so much more. The characters in this book have depth, their own thoughts and opinions.

The plot in this book was wow where should I begin with it? There was so much happening in this book, even thou the beginning was slow it was still a lot of things happening there to keep you entrained. 

The writing style here was amazing, because it was like the author knew what words to use to grab out attention and to not let it go to the very end. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Fear: Trump in the White House” By Bob Woodward Review

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

As you may get from the title and summary of this book, this book is about Trump’s presidency. And well it talks about a lot of things involving Trump’s presidency.

This book also talks a little bit about Trump’s presidency campaign. There isn’t much talk about it, but there is some. 

This book portrays in a very good way the insides of Trump’s presidency and the issues which were there. This book puts all the issues with Trump’s presidency in simple and easy way, which makes this book suitable for everyone, no matter if you know a lot about politics or not. 

This book is written from a lot of various sources, which are listed at the end of this book which you can look up after you are finished with this book, which makes it very good because you can fact check the author if you have suspicions about things within this book.

However my main issue with this book was that it focuses a lot on the drama between Trump and FBI, but also Trump making staff changes every other week. 

Trump making staff changes every other week, isn’t that surprising because if you are familiar with trump then you know that the guy has a lot of problems and he cant stick with someone for too long.

The writing style is good for the most part but there were moments where the writing style turned to boring or uninteresting at times, which made some sections of this book really tortures to read. Because of the have topics it talked about and the hard writing style.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Unite Me” By Tahereh Mafi Review

Destroy Me tells the events between Shatter Me and Unravel Me from Warner’s point of view. Even though Juliette shot him in order to escape, Warner can’t stop thinking about her–and he’ll do anything to get her back. But when the Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment arrives, he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner cannot allow. Fracture Me is told from Adam’s perspective and bridges the gap between Unravel Me and Ignite Me. As the Omega Point rebels prepare to fight the Sector 45 soldiers, Adam’s more focused on the safety of Juliette, Kenji, and his brother. The Reestablishment will do anything to crush the resistance… including killing everyone Adam cares about.

This book has two separate books in it which are both Destroy Me and Fracture Me, which I’ve already reviewed few days ago. 

This book is really nice because it contains two separate books, which makes you buy just one book instead of two books. Which means you save money and space on the bookshelf.

In my opinion Destroy Me is much better than Fracture Me. Because I found Warner’s perspective is so much better than Adam’s perspective. And because I like Warner much more than Adam.

Fracture Me, wasn’t what I’ve expected even from Adam’s perspective. Because he spend the 2 precious books in this series trying to prove himself to Juliette but when she gets taken by Warner’s father, and Adam’s little brother is in danger at the same time. He just doesn’t give a damn about Juliette and acts like she doesn’t matter anymore. I get it, you go save your little brother and then have the rest of the gang to go after Juliette. But don’t insist on everyone going to save your little brother even thou your group can split in half. But thats just one of my many problems with Adam.

The writing style in both Destroy Me and Fracture Me, is incredible. Ive said it before but im gonna say it again. Tahereh Mafi is an incredible writer. Because its like she knows what words to use to grab our attention and to not let it go before the very end of the book and still making us wanting more.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Fracture Me” By Tahereh Mafi Review

As Omega Point prepares to launch an all-out assault on The Reestablishment soldiers stationed in Sector 45, Adam’s focus couldn’t be further from the upcoming battle. He’s reeling from his breakup with Juliette, scared for his best friend’s life, and as concerned as ever for his brother James’s safety. And just as Adam begins to wonder if this life is really for him, the alarms sound. It’s time for war.

This book is written from Adam’s perspective. And I need to admit that this book was less fan than the book written from Warner’s perspective. But thats has to do me not liking Adam as much as I like Warner. 

After reading this book, I need to say that this book was more about Adam reassuring himself that he can be the hero which Juliette and his little brother needs  than anything else. 

Throughout this whole book Adam tries to be the hero for everyone, but still everything goes to shit at the end of this book, which really shows how bad of a hero Adam is.

But still a part of me loved this book a fair share, because we get to know Adam much more and we get to know his thoughts and emotions. But still some of his thoughts about Juliette aren’t the most valiant. Because he more or less wants to control Juliette in a way, always telling her what she should do like choosing him over Warner even do he treats Juliette as shit at times.

There are some additional action we get to know when Juliette is taken by Warner’s father from the battlefield. And we get to see those action going down through Adam’s perspective which is okay for the most part. But if you want me to pick a preferable perspective then I would go with Juliette’s and Warner’s perspectives.

The writing style here is as good as in the previous books in the series, which of course means that the author seems to know what words to use, to fully grab your attention and to not let it go until you finish the book.

I Give This Book 4 / 5