Category: Book review

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the “four-squareness of the utterance” in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

I gotta admit that before I got into this book, I was ready to not like this book since I though that it was one of those very overhyped shitty books and I’ve read a few of them at this point. But after reading this book I need to admit that I’m very happy that I actually read this book. But lets get into the review without making the intro way longer than it needs to be 

The plot in this book is so good. It talks about heroism, loyalty as well as the enter struggle between evil and good. I really couldn’t stop reading this book and when I wasn’t reading this book I was thinking about what would happen next in the story. Which really says something because this doesn’t happen often for me. 

The thing I loved the most about this book is that this book combines perfectly the elements of mythology, history, and moral lessons. All of those things explored what it tales to be a hero in the society. 

I also loved the vivid imagery and use of alliteration this book has which brings the entire plot of this book to life in a way even over a century after it was first written. 

The descriptions of the confrontation with a dragon and other important moments in this book were so interesting and amazing for me personally. 

The thing which I didn’t like about this book was that the pacing of this book seemed very uneven to me, particularly at the end of this book which is the reason why I give this book 4 starts instead of 5. 

In my opinion the monologues in this book are way too long than what they needed to be, but that can just be me because in general I am not a fan of monologues in books and movies. The long monologues in this book was very distracting and boring for me personally.

The old English writing in this book, only helped the book to be more fun and interesting in my opinion. Because it really set the mood and vibe nicely which made this book feel like the action in this book happened a long time ago which it did. 

The writing style in this book was very good, because it really helped the plot in this book shine. And it was like the author knew what words to use to completely grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end of this book.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

Frankie Gibbs, an unambitious adolescent on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his brother Dazzler out of the North Wales care system. Poverty isn’t Frankie’s only obstacle, as their boozing, coke-head single-parent father, Guy Gibbs, heaps misery on their plight through systematic abuse and never-ending wild parties.

Before we start this review I need to be hones there and confess that I struggled a lot to finish this book. Because I had a lot problems with staying engaged in the plot of this book. With that being said lets get into the review without making the intro longer than it needs to be.

The first thing I want to say about this book is that this book makes it clear that the author has a lot of talent for immersive storytelling, but this book felt to me like some weird line of consciousness rather than being a well structured book. And this is the main reason why I found this book to be so difficult to stay engaged in.

The characters in this book are okay, they have a fair share of personalities to them. But I personally couldn’t find in me the strength to actually like them because of this I just couldn’t bring myself to give this book a good rating as I wanted to when I started reading this book. 

But the thing I liked the most about this book is that it talks about a pretty seriously and dark subject, which I always like when it happens. But unfortunately that was the only thing I liked about this book.

The main thing about this book which I didnt like about this book is the amount of “Fuck”s this book has. I personally dont mind swear words (I use them too often to mind) but this book felt like it was trying to set the word record on how many “Fuck”s it contains. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wards – only to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination.

I need to be honest here and say that I’m very torn on this book, because on one side I really liked this book but on the other side I didn’t. But lets start this review and unpack this book and my opinions about this book. 

This book has some very good horror moments, but those moments are very rare at least in my opinion. And the time between those good horror moments is very long and that as good.

The writing style in this book could have been better, because the sentence structure in this book is very long. There are times were a sentence in this book can be close 200 words long, which in my opinion its too long for one single sentence.

However this book has a nice gothic vibe to it which I always love as you might know if you have read my previous reviews. And the battle between evil and innocence in this book is pretty okay even thou I didn’t like it quiet so much as I wanted because I felt like there was something missing in this aspect at least. 

The beginning of this book was very good in my opinion but the further I got into this book, I began to less and less enjoy it. 

The story here is okay, it reminded me of “The Haunting of Hill House” but written poorly. Which pretty much gives you a good summary of I think about this book. 

The majority of the characters in this book were pretty shallow. I just couldn’t bring myself to like the majority of characters in this book, thou I did like a lot the main character. There was something in the main character which really made me feel like me and the main character could easily be friends.

In my opinion this book is pretty overrated, because a lot of people say that this book is very good but after I read this one for myself I need to say that I have different opinions about it. I personally wouldn’t say that this book is “very good”, what I would say about this book is that it is pretty average.

This book had a very good and scary vibe to it, which really made me give this book some extra points for having. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

I need to admit here that this book might be a little overrated by a lot of people, because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book, but after actually reading this book I need to be honest here and say that it isn’t as good as people claim it is. But at the same time I need to give this book some credit because this book has a few things I really liked about this book. But lets talk all about those things in this review. 

The first thing I really liked about this book was that out was very well written, it was like the author knew what kind of words to use to complete grab my attention and not let it go until the very end of this book even thou I wasn’t that interested in the plot. 

But at the same time the writing style could have been better on few fronts here, one of the issues I had with the writing style in this book was the fact that the paragraphs are very long and dense, which really made it hard for me to really enjoy the book and give it a good rating.

The last thing I need to mention about the writing style is that it is full of those four-dollar words which in my opinion would very quickly get boring and uninteresting. 

Another thing which I didn’t like that much about this book is the fact that it uses endless metaphors and the rare dialogs we do get in this book end up being those very big and bulky paragraphs of one character’s monolog before the other character starts his / her’s monolog.

Another things which I really didn’t like about this book is the fact that the author was jumping from one topic to the next constantly and in the blink of an eye. Which really made it hard to get invested in the plot of this book because the topics would constantly change. At times I felt like the author was on cocaine or heroine and was just rambling about stuff without knowing about it because of how often and quickly the damn topics changed in this book.

But at the same time this book had some good moments, because it touches onto some topics I found interesting, and when the characters doesn’t go onto those very long monologues, I actually liked this book a lot even thou I wont probably read this book again nor recommend it to anyone.

The characters in this book were okay for the most part when they weren’t doing those very energy draining monologs which I really hated. But I gotta say that I liked them because they weren’t too complex but they still had that unique thing which made them feel like real human beings rather than characters on a piece of paper. 

The plot in this book is pretty much all over the place. Because as I’ve said before, the author dumps from topic to topic in seconds in this book, which is really hard to follow the main plot in this book without getting confused and wonder what the fuck is happening.

I Give This Book 3 / 5