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reading this book that I needed to remind myself when it was written because some of the things in this book are very outdated.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

“The Death of Ivan Ilych” By Leo Tolstoy Review

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Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.  How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This book is my second book written by Leo Tolstoy and so far my liking of his work haven’t been so high. It might be something to do with me not seeing the beauty with classics which aren’t horror books.

This is book is very short because it has around 100 pages which of course depends on what copy of this book you get. 

The main plot in this book is about the suffering and death of a successful judge named Ivan Ilyich. Which makes this book to a very grim, dark and sad book. 

I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book before I started reading it and I didn’t know anything about this book before I started reading it. And in my case it was the best solution because I didn’t end up getting disappointed.

The main character here, which of course is Ivan Ilyich is painful average person which only rotates between work and his home. And I had super hard time trying to like him or relate to him.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Reminders of Him” By Colleen Hoover Review

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After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter. But if anyone were to discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an important part of Kenna’s life, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them. The two form a connection despite the pressure surrounding them, but as their romance grows, so does the risk. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing.

This book is my second book written by Colleen Hoover, and well after reading this book I’ve started liking Colleen Hoover work. 

To be fully honest this book was really tough read, because it involves dead, pregnancy, blame, prison and shame. 

The plot in this book is very sad, heartwarming and so tough. Because it involves some very though things. But also it makes it to a very interesting book, and I had an amazing time reading this book.

The love story in this book was almost no existing, because the love story is at the last third of this book. This book is rather about a mother wanting to get to know her 5 year old daughter after spending the previous 5 years in jail.

The characters in this book are okay for the most part. To be honest all character expect of Kenna are pretty flat and uninteresting. All of the characters (expect of Kenna) feel like they were created just to feel up the empty space.

Kenna is an amazing character, because there is so many feelings she is carrying around. And all the thoughts she have throughout the book really makes her feel like a real human being.

The writing style here was okay for the most part. It was very far from being good but it was okay. 

The ending was surprisingly good, and it really made me give this book a higher rating. Because there was something very satisfying and heartwarming.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“More Tales to Chill Your Bones” By Alvin Schwartz Review

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Storytellers know — just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years — that everyone enjoys a good, scary story! Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

This book is the third book in the “scary stories to tell in the dark” trilogy which is a collection of short horror stories for children. 

To be honest this book was much better than the first and second book in this trilogy. Because there were even more of the good short horror stories.

To be fully honest here the majority of the short stories in this book are very boring and uninteresting. They are also very short which really makes it hard to actually get into them .However at the same time few short stories in this book was interesting, fun and super enjoyable to read. 

The illustrations here are very good and I loved looking at them while reading this book. Because in a way they have added more eerie feeling to this book.

The writing style here was very simple and easy. And from the writing style, it is clear that it is meant for children because the writing style is too simple and too easy.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” By Alvin Schwartz Review

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All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz’s first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic. Is it possible to die — and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What happens to a thief foolish enough to rob a corpse, or to a murderer whose victim returns from the grave? Read about these terrifying predicaments as well as what happens when practical jokes produce gruesome consequences and initiations go awry. Stephen Gammell’s splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories — and even a scary song — all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark. If You Dare!

This book is the second book in the “scary stories to tell in the dark” trilogy which is a collection of short horror stories for children. 

To be honest this book was much better than the first book in this trilogy. Because there were more of the good short horror stories.

To be fully honest here the majority of the short stories in this book are very boring and uninteresting. They are also very short which really makes it hard to actually get into them. However at the same time some of the short stories in this book was interesting and fun to read. 

The illustrations here are very good and I loved looking at them while reading this book. Because in a way they have added more eerie feeling to this book.

The writing style here was very simple and easy. And from the writing style, it is clear that it is meant for children because the writing style is too simple and too easy.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Fault in Our Stars” By John Green Review

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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

This book has to be the best YA book I’ve read so far. I really had low expectations for this book before Ive started reading it, but almost insatiately when I began reading this book I fall in love with it.

Reading this book was an absolute roller coaster of emotions to be fully honest with you. Because I really went from being happy, to fall in love with Gus to be fully hard broken at the end. 

The love story between Hazel and Gus is just amazing. Even thou they are both sick they still find a way to be together and to enjoy the time they have left.

The plot in this book is truly sad, heartbreaking and at the same time very satisfying in a way. There is something very unique about it and there is something which will make you fall in love with it.

The writing style here is amazing. It truly adds more to this story. The writing style is very easy. Which makes it very enjoyable and quick read.

The characters in this book are truly amazing. There is something which makes them feel like they are real human beings. We get to know Hazel’s thoughts and emotions which really adds a depth to her. But it also makes her to such a likeable character. 

And Gus is such easy going, and his obsessions with metaphors really made him so easy to like character.

The ending in this book is truly heartbreaking, because we truly don’t see it coming until it actually happens. It truly made me very sad, and I needed couple of days to process this book before writing this review.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” By Alvin Schwartz Review

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This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz’s popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright. There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney.

This book is a collection of short horror stories for children. 

To be fully honest here the majority of the short stories in this book are very boring and uninteresting. They are also very short which really makes it hard to actually get into them.

The illustrations here are very good and I loved looking at them while reading this book. Because in a way they have added more eerie feeling to this book.

The beginning of this book was pretty good with 2 okay horror stories. But after that it went down the hill.

The writing style here was very simple and easy. And from the writing style, it is clear that it is meant for children because the writing style is too simple and too easy.

I Give This Book 2 / 5