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“The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” By Stephen King Review

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In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizing tales. There are thrilling connections between these works – themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Magnificent, eerie, and utterly compelling, these tales are a fine gift to readers everywhere.

This book is a collection of short stories written by Stephen King. Its important to say that this book includes a lot of short stories which have been published before, so there were very little new short stories in this book.

All of the short stories in this book are very uninteresting and boring. The best way to describe them is that Stephen King tried to be similar to some of his older short stories which people liked but failed a lot on this task.

The plot in those short stories were very flat, and there too short to actually understand what was happening or make us care for the characters. 

The characters in this book really surprised me here, because they were very flat, uninteresting and boring. But also the dialog between the characters were very mundane.

After every short story in this book, Stephen King adds some notes to every short story. In my opinion, these notes were very distracting because those notes would give us information we didn’t need to know and it pretty much killed the small amount of eerie vibe those short stories had.

The only place I saw this book in a store, was on the airport, and of course on that trip I forgot to take a book with me so I needed to buy one in the airport. And this book was I went with. And I truly regret spending my money on this book and my time.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Peter Pan” By J.M. Barrie Review

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Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling’s proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook.

I need to admit that I never was fairytale child when I was a kid, so picking up this book as an adult might not have been the best choice. Which might be the reason why I gave this book so low rating.

This book didn’t have a huge appeal to me like some other classic books for children as “the wonderful wizard of oz”, but Im glad that I finally read it because this book has been laying on my TBR for couple of years now.

The characters here was on the bad side if you ask me. Wendy was very annoying and Peter here was really a shallow character. When it comes tot the side characters in this book they were even worse than Wendy and Peter. All of the side characters were way to similar to each other and you couldn’t set them apart and say who is who here because they felt like the same character.

There are times where I had to push myself through this book, because I just couldn’t get into the plot. 

For me personally this book was more on the uninteresting because as said before I was never a fairy tale person.

This book is best suited for young children, so if you have a child who likes to read or you are trying to make your child pick up reading then this book is a good choice.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Little Women” By Louisa May Alcott Review

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It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with “woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the “girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

I’ve heard a lot of good about this book which is why I decided to read it, and I got to say that this book doesn’t deserve all the hype it gets on boktube. 

It is important to keep in mind that this book has two parts, which sometimes are published as two different books. And these two parts are named “little women” and “good wives”. 

My main problem with this book is that we get 4 main characters, and all of them are way too perfect. They never do anything wrong, they want to please everyone, they want to serve everyone etc. they were super unrealistic which really makes it very detached from reality.

And all the love stories which the 4 main characters are just so perfectly shows us that it really doesn’t make sense to the reader, and really makes us thing that they would last an hour in the real world.

The writing style here was actually very good and it was the reason why I gave this book 2 starts instead of one. 

However you are a feminist and like books with feminist themes then you will like this book a lot. 

This book was very uninteresting and even boring at times which really made me angry because when I wanted to really love this book, but of course it didn’t happen.

The plot itself in this book is sort of a feminist novel set it 1862, I personally don’t like feminist novels, so it might explain why I didn’t like this book as much as I wanted to.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Dolores Claiborne” By Stephen King Review

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Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.

I didn’t knew anything about this book before getting into it, and I need to admit that I was surprised because its actually good. 

The plot in this book is very interesting, enjoyable and engaging. Which really surprised me because I wasn’t expecting this from this book. But I am all here for those kind of surprised in books.

The plot is very good the grab your attention and not letting it go until the very end. The the more you start thinking the story the less stars you want to give it when it comes to it. 

It is important to say that this book isn’t as much a horror book as it is a psychological thriller. There aren’t any horror moments in this book but rather a woman trying to defend herself that she didn’t call her wealthy employer who died suspiciously. 

All of the characters in this book are very very good, which you can expect from the master of horror. All of the characters in this book have a unique personality and all of them have something which sett them apart from the rest of the characters in this book. 

The writing style is what you would expect from Stephen King, which of course means that is fantastic. It just as Stephen King knows what words to use to grab your attention and to not let it go until you finish the book.

The ending here was meh to be honest. I had some high expectations for the ending in this book but I ended up getting disappointed. Because this book builds into this good exciting ending which it fails to have.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Ugly Love” By Colleen Hoover Review

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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

I need to admit that after trying to read this book, I will stop listening to Book Tok and taking book recommendations from it. Because all the books give picked up after watching videos about it on Tik Tok were absolutely trash, and 50% of them I couldn’t even finish because they were so bad in my opinion.

Its important to say before we officially begin this review, that I ended DNF-ing this book after having read 57% of it. I just couldn’t torture myself longer with this book.

The beginning of this book was actually interesting and somehow enjoyable, but the further you got into this book the worse and worse it became.

Even thou I’m not a fan of Colleen Hoover, Ive read some of her books before this one, and I can tell you that it felt like it wasn’t written by her but rather by a horny teenage girl. Yeah it was that bad.

The premise of this book had potential but the author didn’t use it, which really pissed me off because as I’ve said above I liked the beginning of this book but the further and further I go tin to this book I’ve started to lose more and more hope for this book.

The writing style in this book was surprisingly bad even for Colleen Hoover, which really surprised me a lot because I wasn’t expecting so bar writing style even from my least favorite author I’ve ever come across (so far).

The two main characters which were Tate and Miles were actually okay and likable. But they weren’t the strongest and best characters ive seen. In this book as in any other book written by Colleen Hoover, she makes obvious that she needs a lot to work on her skills of making good characters.

I personally didn’t like Tate so much, because she had absolutely no self respect. And she had let Miles and everyone else in this book treat her as a sex object or a punching bag

When it comes to the rest of the characters in this book then I have to say that I cant name any of them, because felt like the same character with the same personality in just different clothes.

There is also a fair amount of sexist things said and done in this book especially by one of the characters which was so miserable and annoying. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“November 9” By Colleen Hoover Review

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Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist.

I need to admit that I DNF-ed this book very fast because it was so bad and it was a torture reading this book.

The plot in this book is for sure unique but that uniqueness doesn’t work for this book as you would think. Instead it drags this book to hell.

The plot had a lot of potential and very good premise but the way it was presented to us was so horrible and turned a good premise of a plot into a trash.

The characters here in this book are hard to talk about. Because the main male character did and say a lot of questionable things, which wont go with majority of the population. 

After thinking about this book for couple of days, I need to admit that this book is very topic and problematic in a lot of ways.

The writing style here was very, very bad. And I really don’t have words to describe how bad the writing style was in this book. It was cringy and the fact that a full grown adult has written this makes it so much more cringy. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“You Should See Me in a Crown” By Leah Johnson Review

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Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it’s okay — Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

This book is a good example on why you should trust Tik Tok on anything especially on the books topics. Ive seen this book going around on Bok Took since it first came out, and let me be honest with you this book isn’t worth all recommendations which it gets nor is it worth your time or money which you will spend on this book.

The whole book revolves about high school prom, I personally were never a fan of high school proms or high school in general, so of course having the main topic of this book being high school prom wouldn’t go well with me.

The plot in this book was very boring and uninteresting, and at a lot of moment sit was very cringy, as you would expect from a book revolving around high school prom.

The characters in this book were very generic characters, and they felt like the same character because they didn’t have personality or anything which would make them stand out from the rest of the characters. 

There was one character which was always around, but still I cant remember who she was or what was her deal with always being around. She was very annoying and sort of a creep because she always there when anything happened at the high school.

All of the characters in this book are also very inconsistently written, that it starts to be funny. Because there were a lot of moments where 2 characters would have this huge fight over something stupid and then in the next sentence they would be best friends and instantly forget about the fight they just had.

All of the character are like 16- 17 years old but they seem like 6 and 7 year olds because they are immature and silly and joking about stupid things all the time. 

The writing style here was very horrible, even for a Young adult book. Its hard to explain it because you could see that the author was trying at least to have good writing style but it just didn’t happen here

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Shatter Me” By Tahereh Mafi Review

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Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

I personally have a lot of mixed feelings about this book, because on the one side it is very interesting but on the other side it seems to be pretty generic YA book. Which means that I am torn in half on this book. 

This book gave me huge x-men vibes as well as the hunger games vibes which is really intriguing because these two things are different. After reading this book I can say honestly that this book isn’t bad nor good. 

The beginning of this book was very intriguing, which really grabbed my attention which of course made me give this some extra points. However the middle part of this book went downhill a little bit. And when we come closer and closer to the end, it becomes more and more disappointing. Because this book builds up to a big and very interesting ending which in my opinion this book doesn’t give us when we get to it.

The writing style here was good, to be honest I didn’t except the writing style to be so good as it was, which on its own made me like this book more. But at the same time the writings style in this book is strange in a way, because you cant explain it but you are left with a weird feeling about it.

When it comes to the main character of this book which is Juliette. I had some issues with her at the beginning of this book, because she had a huge obsession with numbers, but the further I got into this book the more I started to liking her. Its important to say that she isn’t the best character which I came across of. But she is a good character for a ya series.

I personally think that Juliette being the main character adds to the plot. Because there is something unique about her, and the more we get to know her the more we like her and the plot.

The rest of the characters in this book are surprisingly good, which rally surprised me because I cant remember the last time I liked all of the characters in a book. You can really tell that this book has a unique personality which really makes them a likable character even if they are the bad guy of the story.

The plot in this book is not a masterpiece, but it is interesting and enjoyable. If you are looking for a book to read while you cuddle up on the couch or in bed, then this book is the go-to here. The plot isn’t complicated and you don’t really need a lot of brain power to enjoy it.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” By Angela Duckworth Review

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In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called grit.

This book has to be one of the worst psychology books I’ve read so far. Because this book starts as a psychology book but then it turns into a biography of the authors career life and what she has done during school and during work. By doing it this book turned from being a psychology book to being a mix between self help and biography book.

This book was hard to stick to and pay attention because this book was all over the place with its stories. Which really disappointed me.

The chapters here felt like the same over and over again. Because the author kept repeating more or less the same things in every chapter but just in other words and other stories which led to the same conclusions.

The language used in this book was easy to understand, and because of this it made me give this book some extra point. Because there were some psychology books I came across where it seemed that you needed a bachelor degree in psychology to understand it. Which didn’t happen with this book which is probably the best thing about this book in my opinion.

The writing style here wasn’t the greatest. You could tell that the it was written by a researcher, but it was on the worse side of things when it comes to the writing style. The writing style felt very monotone, like the author didn’t care about getting your attention and make you interested in what you read.

There were some rare examples of grit which were very good in my opinion. But the 90% of the rest examples of grit was very uninteresting and boring to say it simply and in a nice way.

In my opinion this whole book could have been taken 20 pages with things sticking to the main topic of this book. The 277 pages we get in this book are too much because we get a lot of sub stories which aren’t really relevant for the topic other than having some words relating to the topic.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“All Your Perfects” By Colleen Hoover Review

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Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.

The more books written by Colleen Hoover I read, the more sure I become that she is one of the worst authors I came across because her books are so bad.

One of my main problems with this book is the female main characters which is very dumb and weak character. She leaves her fiancé after she cheats on her with some woman who works in his company, to just fall in love with the women’s boyfriend and then marry him, have him cheat on her and just to forgive him.

The female character also gets very obsessed with having a kid, which makes her threat her husband as shit and not give a shit about him, and then get blame him for everything and for kissing another woman.  Yeah her behavior makes sense (it doesn’t). 

I had a lot of moments while I was reading this book where I though “what the F**k am I reading?” Or “why am I reading it?”. Because this book was very hopeless and really the hype about this book and about this author is stupid because there is nothing special about this book or any other book written by this author.

The writing style in this book was the best part about this book. It was okay, easy to read and pretty much it made it quick to read.  Because it was like the author knew what words to use to get your attention.

The plot here was very bad. As I said before the female main character had a lot of thinks to figure out but also the plot kept going back and forth which really wasn’t that necessary in my opinion.

I Give This Book 2 / 5