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“Fairy Tale” By Stephen King Review

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Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder.

This book was for sure a very unique one. Because I wasn’t expecting the master of horror to get into fantasy but with this book he of course did.

The beginning of this book started really big and had big Psyho vibes. Which really made the trick for me to get me hocked. The beginning had strange accident,  mysterious old house, weird noises coming from the shed, an old dog and a teenager. 

The beginning had huge suspense in it, and from it alone I was expecting Pet cemetery 2 in a way. But of course it wasn’t it.  

Even thou it started really hot and big, the book went downhill from that point in my opinion. As you continue reading this book it will turn into a teenager’s adventure. Which wasn’t bad but it wasn’t that original. In a way this book really disappointed me in a way because I was expecting something more from Stephen King.

Charlie and Mr. Bowditch were good characters even thou I wasn’t the biggest fan of them. But the rest of the characters in this book were meh to be fully honest here. I personal remembered the rest of the characters as “Deaf-one”, “Blind-one” etc. Even thou they had names as you expect, I didn’t bother to remember their names because I found them boring and uninteresting. 

To be fully honest my favourite character in this book is Radar which is the old dog in this book. 

Even thou this book is an enjoyable read, it is at least 150 pages too long in my opinion. Because after you read the half of this book, it being to drag for far too long.

The writing style in this book was very good at the beginning but as the book continues the writing style in a way goes slowly downhill which really disappointed me. But I haven’t noticed it until I finished the book.

The ending was actually good, I didn’t expect it being so good because of 2 / 3 of this book being boring and somehow uninteresting for me. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Educated” By Tara Westover Review

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Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard.

To be very honest here, I didn’t know anything about this book nor the author before going into this book. All I knew about this book was that it was very popular on Goodreads. Which might be the reason for the low rating I gave this book.

This review will be very unpopular. And this entire review is from my opinion, so if you don’t agree with anything I say here you don’t need to post some mean comments, you can just keep scrolling. This review is what I think about the book, and I know that not a lot of people will agree with me and you have to do the same just agree with the fact that not everyone will have the same opinion about as you.

I personally had very hard time reading this book because I found it boring and uninteresting but at the same time I couldn’t believe how hard time the author had while growing up in the family she has.

This book is for sure very eerie due to the emotional and physical abuse the author went through in her life on the hands of her family. Which really is terrifying how some people, who you call family can treat you like shit due to their’s believes.

Even thou I didn’t like this book, there is a part of me which doesn’t want to criticise a book of someone’s life.  But for a honest review you need to do some hard things.

This book only focused on the real bad things in the author’s life, and often skipped months at a time, which really annoyed me because its like the author is telling us that she her entire life was super bad without a single good things happening. 

And the sense of intense violence which were in this book were way too frequent. She really made me point how fucked up her family is with the first of these moments and we didn’t need 50 of them to understand it.

Another things which really annoyed me about this book, was the miracles of getting back to full head when her father, mother and brother got injured. It was like on one page they were very injured and on the next page they were back to full health. And the author didn’t even bother telling us how they got back to health or anything like this. It was more like Boom and the next morning they woken up being back to full health.

Other things which I found bad about this book was her school education. She was homeschooled until she was accepted to a university. And her education at home was very, very far from a proper education. All she learned during her home school was how to read and that was it. And when she was accepted to university she was on perfect student getting As on all tests and exams. How is that possible ? Someone who only learned how to read and do some very basic math which children in kindergarten can do is randomly an A student in a university. 

When I read nonfiction books or biographies I want logic and things making scenes not what happened with the author’s education in university or her family members randomly healing up over night after getting injured.

And the last thing I will mention about which really annoyed me about this book. Is that the author taken like 3 singing lessons and overnight she was the musician which everyone looked up to in town. It’s almost like the author wants us to believe that within 3 singing lessons you can go on a stage and be the next Taylor Swift.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Emma” By Jane Austen Review

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Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

This book is yet again another classic which didn’t work for me personally. But yes I still read classics even thou 80% of them aren’t for me and this book is one of them.

The first 100 page of this book is Emma looking down at people who have lower living standards than her. A good example of this will be the following quote from early in this book “Oh, my dear, that’s good because I would have to knock you flat on your arse if you were considering someone of such low birth.”

Emma is the main character of this book of course. And she has every requirement of a character which I personally hate the most. Emma is annoying, she meddles in things which clearly isn’t her business, she is very immature, a huge snob and her mistakes is never her fault but someone else’s. 

The rest of the character here was so boring and uninteresting that I can’t even tell you any of their names. 

The plot in this book is about a rich and very snobbish girl who looks down and trash talk people who have less money than her. And her only hobby is to matchmaking for people she doesn’t know at all. And the consequences of her hobby is not her fault but rather the people’s she involve in her awful hobby.

The writings style was probably the best thing about this book. It gives us the amazing mood and it is very easy to read even with the old English.

To be fully honest here this book is way too long. The length of my copy of this book is 480 pages, which is way too long. Because this book is very doll, boring and uninteresting.

Even thou I finished this book there were so many times I wanted to just stop reading, or fall asleep while reading this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Sharp Objects” By Gillian Flynn Review

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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

I gotta say that this book really surprised me, because it has a disturbing plot as well as disturbing characters and it doesn’t fail to make you feel very uncomfortable while reading it.

I personally didn’t love this book but it was the best thriller book I’ve read last year (2023).

This book took me a very long time to really get into it. Because I found it very hard to like the characters at the beginning and the beginning was all over the place for me personally.

However I find it really hard to write this review because I have very mixed feelings about this book. On one had I know this book is a bestseller and on the other hand the more I think about this book the less I like it.

The writing style in this book was defiantly good when you look at the fact that this book was the debut novel by Gilliam Flynn.

This book involves a lot of dark topics which may trigger some people. Some off the dark topics are self-harm, child abuse, druging children,  sexualization of children, murder of young children amid couple of other things which I can’t say because they will be seen as spoilers.

This entire book is from a journalist perspective who was more or less forced by her employer to return to her own town to investigate the murders of children there. Which I personally found to be very boring.

The big twist at the end, wasn’t truly a twist because we were getting small hints of the ending from the beginning of this book.

The characters in this book were pretty flat and uninteresting. However the main character had some really good moments here and there throughout this book but I found it very hard to like her because she was such a weak character who wasn’t suited to be a crime journalist.

The rest of the characters were almost as flat as the main character. The mother of the main character is an abusive b-word, which really made me hate her a lot.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Stand” By Stephen King Review

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First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.

This review its gonna be a very unpopular review. Because this book gets a lot of good reviews from people who have read it, and I just didn’t like it at all. This book is the longest Stephen King book at the time of writing this review, and well I was excepting something more from this book.

This book took me over 3 months to read, because I just couldn’t keep my focus straight while reading this book because I was so uninterested in this book.

In my opinion this book lacks details, which really makes it or breaks it when it comes to fiction about the fall of civilisation.  

This book really started out strong but quickly it went downhill for me personally which really disappointed me. Because I was really having fun and enjoying this book in the beginning.

All of the characters in this book were very boring and uninteresting for me personally. Which really hurts to say it about a Stephen King book, because he normally writes so amazing amazing characters which of course didn’t happen in this book. 

The plot in this book is to be honest all over the place, because it follows multiple characters and most of the time I had a hard time being onboard with what was happening in this book.

This book had some good moments here and there, but it were really rare and they were surrounded by moments which really were shit in my opinion. 

The ending in this book was probably the most disappointing thing about this book. Because this whole book was building the atmosphere for this huge ending which turned out to be uninteresting and not worth 1150 pages of build up to it.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The New York Trilogy” By Paul Auster Review

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The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.

This book is a collection of 3 separate modernist variations of detective books named City Of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. And the reason why I have this book is because a few years back one of my local libraries were selling books for a dollar and since that time this book been laying in my TBR file for years waiting to be read.

To be honest I didn’t have any expectations for this book because I didn’t know anything about other than it being a modernist variations of detective books which take place in New York City.

All of 3 separate books which are in this book are short, and to be fully honest very boring and uninteresting. The first book was very interesting at the beginning but it quickly turned to boredom. And the 2 remaining books were very uninteresting and boring.

While I was reading this book I kept thinking that something needs to happen for me to not fall asleep while reading it. But of course nothing happened in this book, other than drama, poor plot, worse character and being bored to dead.

The writing style here was very mechanical and boring. It felt like I was being a told a story by someone who absolutely hated telling stories and he / she just said whatever came to his / her mind at the moment. In other worst the writing style was very very painful.

The character are really bad here. They had no dept to them, no personality, no opinion and it was really hard to tell them apart because all of the character felt like the same person.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“White Nights” By Fyodor Dostoevsky Review

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White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.

To be honest this book really surprised me because I was expecting to suffer through this book as I did while reading “Crime And Punishment”. 

This short story ab out a man who falls in love with a stranger she swore to not fall in love with.

This book had few good moments, but other than that I found it uninteresting. Yes ive enjoyed reading this book, but I didn’t like it as much. 

There were times while reading this book that I needed to remind myself when it was written because some of the things in this book are very outdated.

I personally found the narrator in this book to be annoying at times. And there were times where I thought that the narrator was highly depressed due to the phrasing the narrator used.

Nastenka is a 17 year old who is very manipulative. Which really made me hate her very fast.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Spare” By Prince Harry Review

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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.

It very important to say at the beginning of this review that this book wasn’t written by Prince Harry but rather it was written by a ghost-writer named J.R. Moehringer.

This book being written by a ghostwriter is the first red flag about this book. Because during the release of this book, there was one interview with Prince Harry where he said that he have written this book himself which was bull shit because it wasn’t written by him.

The another red flag about this book is how Prince Harry is trying to paint himself as the angel amongst humans who have never done anything bad in his entire life. And instead he is painting Prince William as the devil who is the ultimately evil and jealous person.

The third flag in this book is that Prince Harry paints himself as the victim of everything rather than admitting to his own mistakes. Like that time when he went naked and smoked Pot in Las Vegas, in this book he says that he didn’t want to do it but his friends and alcohol made him do it. Jesus, take some damn responsibility for your own actions and don’t play the victim card.

In this book Prince Harry also talks the majority of the time how much he is insulted about having a role in the royal family but that role not being the primary role. And very good example of this is already at the beginning of this book at page 6. This part really made me pissed off, because most of us aren’t born into the royal family and not get to live in castles, travel the world, get paid for doing nothing but we don’t complain about this. But Prince Harry complains that he gets to do anything he wants to, and where money isn’t a problem for him but not get to be a king. 

When we get to the last part of this book, Prince Harry starts to complain how his brother Prince William and his wife didn’t answer his text immediately after he had texted either of them. I don’t know if Prince Harry understand this but people get very busy at times and can’t answer your text or call right away. Prince William and his wife have kids and probably have things to do which means that they can’t always answer him right away.

Another red flag about this book is how he tried to portray himself as the true heir of Diana. Because there are many times where this book goes “I inherit this from her, my eye colour is just like hers, I have the same passions as her and I don’t like the same things as her”. This really make me sad for him, because of how pathetic he is. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Return: Midnight” By L.J. Smith Review

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The devil you know. With the help of charming and devious Damon, Elena rescued her vampire love, Stefan, from the depths of the Dark Dimension. But neither brother returned unscathed. Stefan is weak from his long imprisonment and needs more blood than Elena alone can give him, while a strange magic has turned Damon into a human. Savage and desperate, Damon will do anything to become a vampire again, even travel back to hell. But what will happen when he accidentally takes Bonnie with him?

I need to say that this book is far from the best book in this series. The ending was very good but the rest of the book was much weaker.

Elena, is such a d-bag. She is the most selfish thoughtless character I’ve ever read about (so far at least). There is one point in this book where she gets jealous when Damon takes Bonnie instead of her to a upside down version of the world. Even thou she spent the previous 5 books telling us how much she loves Stefan and how much she hates Damon.

When it comes to Stefan, he would be a very good character if he wasn’t acting like a child who is blind with love for Elena. And makes every possible excuse for her mistakes.

Bonnie is a very weak, helpless and dumb character. She basically is like a 6 year old girl not a teenager.

The only character who is interesting in this entire book is Meredith however we don’t get to learn a lot about her because this book focuses on the love triangle between Elena, Stefan and Damon.

The plot in this book was boring and uninteresting. And after reading this book, I couldn’t believe that this series was the motivation of the TV show which I really enjoyed.

The other thing about this plot is that this book is the 3 book about the gang fighting the kitsune and his sibling.  It’s like this series can’t move past this, and stretches a very boring topic endlessly.

The writing style here was very good, it was easily the best thing about this book, and it played a role in me giving a higher rating than I wanted to.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Yellow Wall-Paper” By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Review

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Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

This book is very short, it’s around 65 pages depending on what copy of this book you get.

The plot in this book was painfully bad. Because it is about a mentally fragile woman who over time slide into madness. The plot felt like it portrayed when as weak and is only able to relay on men to help them and make them happy. Which really made me very angry.

This book was very repetitive and it for the most part repeated the same thing over and over. Which really made me very uninterested and bored.

The ending here is very confusing, and after reading the ending 2 times I still have no idea what happened there because it was all over the place and very confusing.

The main character here was awful, because all she did in this book was either complain to her husband or cry over the wall-paper. Which really annoyed me very much so.

I Give This Book 1 / 5