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“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

“Way of the Wolf: Become a Master Closer with Straight Line Selling” By Jordan Belfort Review

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For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives readers access to his exclusive step-by-step system the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his clients, and his sales teams. Until now this revolutionary program was only available through Jordan s $1,997 online training. Now in The Way of the Wolf, Belfort is ready to unleash the power of persuasion to a whole new generation of readers, revealing how anyone can bounce back from devastating setbacks, master the art of persuasion, and build wealth. Every technique, every strategy, and every tip has been tested and proven to work in real-life situations.

I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book before going into it which turns out to be a very good thing.

If you are looking for a good business and business psychology book, then this book isn’t a go to there. Because everything this book talked about could have been summarized into a 2-3 pages read instead of a 240 pages book.

This book makes some good points here and there but not enough of good points for this book to have 240 pages in it. However these good points we got in this book was very on point which made me give this book some extra points here and there.

The writing style and language in this book are very simple which means that everyone can read it and understand it. Because if this, I gave this book some extra points. Because some of the business books I’ve read in my time really seemed like you needed a bachelor degree in business to understand them.

In my opinion this book is mainly aimed at salesmen and saleswomen rather than any other category of people or for people who just want to learn about sales market.

This book was very repetitive at a lot of moments, because it was saying the same things over and over again which really made me feel like the author thought that the people who would read this book had a memory of a gold fish. 

The closer you get to the ending of this book, the more and more of lists, stats, objectives and scales you get which really made me give a feeling that the author himself didn’t know or care how to give us a good ending so he just decided to bombard us with stats, lists, diagrams which we would forget the moment we had put this book on the table.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Icebreaker” By Hannah Grace Review

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Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nate’s focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team—including Anastasia, who clearly can’t stand him.

I didn’t have any expectations for this book because it was so Tik Tok famous, and as we know nothing good comes out of Tik Tok. But it was much better than I first thought.

The two main characters in this book which of course are Anastasia and Nathan were surprisingly very good characters. And I loved them and the relationship they had with each other. 

When it comes to the rest of the characters in this book, I need to say that I wasn’t a big fan of them. Some of those side characters were kind of good but the majority of them were meh, I just didn’t care for them at all.

However I need to say that this book felt like a rip-off of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” but just in different setting and with milder sex scenes. But the rest was the same. Even the name of the main female character. Which really pissed me off because at times it felt like I was taken back in time to the time when I was reading the first book in the “fifty shades of grey” series. 

The plot here was interesting and very enjoyable. But I need to admit that at times the drama in this book was a little bit too much for me personally especially at the end.

The writing style here was surprising good. It wasn’t the best I’ve seen but it was very comfortable. And because of the writing style this book felt like a comfy read even thou it was far from a good book. 

The ending of this book was really what I wanted the ending to be without realizing it while I was reading this book. Which really made me give this book some extra points.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“How to Win Friends and Influence People” By Dale Carnegie Review

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You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you! Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

Ive heard a lot of good things about this book, and thats why I decided to read this book. And I need to say that this book didn’t live up to all of expectations, which in a way disappointed me a little bit.

This book will for sure give you a lot of knowledge to learn from it, but at the same time some of the chapters in this book were short and I think that they should have been longer.

This book brushes against a lot of topics in psychology, like how to make people like you, how to influence other, be a good leader and how to make people feel important. And by doing so it gives us very good knowledge we can use in real life.

As I said above some of the advices were good to have in mind but other once where completely garbage and ridiculous.

The writing style here was meh to be fully honest here. Solely from the writing style you could tell that this book was written some time ago. This book was published in 1936, and the writing style pretty outdated and somehow hard to read at first if you aren’t accustomed to reading so old books.

This book is very well researched and done, but some of the tactics presented in this book are manipulative in way which makes me not applied them to real life because thats not quite ethical to be walking around and manipulating people to do what you want.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Holly” By Stephen King Review

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Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

This book is the 3rd book in the stand alone Holly Gibney series. Which for me personally is the character I love the most from the Stephen King Universe. However its important to say that the stand alone Holly Gibney series doesn’t need to be read in order, you can read the series however you want without losing anything because every book in this series is a stand alone crime case which Holly Gibney needs to solve.

I read and reviewed the first book in this series 4 years ago,  and I’ve complete loved the first book in this series which means that I had a lot of expectations for this book even thou I skipped the 2nd book in this series because I’ve heard a lot of mixed opinions about the second book in this series.

I had some big issues with this book while reading it. And these issues were that the plot, characters and tension of this book were very overshadowed by the topics of Covid and Trump which really annoyed me. Because when I’m reading a fictional book I don’t want to reading about political opinions and views with the author has which this book had a fair amount of.

This whole book had the feeling of covid happening as well as the author not liking Donald Trump overshadowing every single aspect of it, which made this book so much less enjoyable, and uninteresting. Because every time I would start getting into the plot and having fun with this book the narrator in this book would make some stupid comments about Trump or covid like “Trump is a psychopath and his covid policy sucks”, which would made me want to grab Stephen King by his t-shirt collar and yell into his face that I don’t care about his political opinions.

However if we step aside the covid and trump comments throughout this book, then we will see that the book was very very good and it would have been easily a 5 star book if Stephen King didn’t throw his political opinions every once and awhile.

The plot in this book is Holly faces an very intriguing crime case, which is that people in a small town keep disappearing. The kidnapper or kidnappers in this book isn’t someone you would suspect at all, which makes this book so much better. 

The plot it very interesting, engaging and intriguing. And I personally had a lot fun with it when Stephen king wasn’t forcing his Trump opinions down my throat.

The characters here were all over the specter of annoying and very incredible. Holly and 3 other characters were very good. But the rest of the characters in this book, I just couldn’t care less about them, and some of them were really getting on my nerves  like the guy who gets kidnaped in the first 2 or 3 chapters of this book.

The writing style in this book was very good, and you could easily tell that it was written by Stephen King the master of horror himself. If you have read some of Stephen King’s better books you know what I mean here about the writing style. It was like Stephen King knew what words to use to grab my attention.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Four Past Midnight” By Stephen King Review

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At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. “Four Past Midnight”: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity.

This book is a collecting of 4 short stories written by Stephen King which take place around midnight.

The name of the short stories which are in this book are The Langoliers, Secret Window, Secret Garden, The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. I personally think that the Secret Window, Secret Garden was the best short story in this book. And it is for sure the short story in this book which I had the most fun reading.

I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book, because I didn’t know much about it other than it contained 4 short stories written by Stephen King. And that the short stories take place either in Castle Rock or in Derry.

Those 4 short stories we get in this book are pretty different from each other but they have couple of things in come, which of course is that they take place around midnight, and they are horror short stories. 

The characters in The Langoliers and The Sun Dog weren’t my favorite, and I found them to be boring and annoying at times. Which really disappointed me because Stephen King is known fin creating amazing characters. But it didn’t happen in those 2 short stories.

When it comes to the characters in the two remaining short stories which of course are Secret Window, Secret Garden and The Library Policeman. I need to to admit that the characters are very good, and I really came to like the majority of the characters in those two short stories. But of course there were a couple of characters in those 2 short stories which I found to be annoying or boring.

The writing style in those 4 short stories which this book has is very good. The way it was written you just could tell that it was written by Stephen King. The writing style is so good that you could tell that Stephen King knew what words to use to grab your attention and interested. 

When it comes to the ending to those 4 short stories, they weren’t the best. From experience I can honestly say that Stephen King can write much better ending than what he did in those 4 short stories.

I Give This Book 2 / 5