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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

“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

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” By John le Carré Review

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It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.

Maybe its my fault that I gave this book so low rating because starting at the 5th book in a series, is not a good choice. But to my defense I got this book as a gift and I didn’t know it was part of a series until I got started reading it.

Its important to say that I DNF-ed this book. Because I just couldn’t get into it, and reading it felt like a torture for me personally. I DNF-ed this book about half way in and what I can tell you about the plot is that it is a guy sitting at his desk all the time and looking through his papers.

The writing style and the language felt very foreign even thou it was written in English. The fact that this book was published in 1974 might have something to do with this fact.

As for the writing style itself I can say here is that is very badly written and really you will get tortured while reading this book because of the writing style-

The reason why I’ve tried to read this book in the first place is because I’ve heard that this book was the best spy book of all time. Which for me personally was far from the truth. 

The other thing about this book is that it contains a lot of British words and terms as well as spy terms which aren’t explained at all. Which means that you have to look them up on the Internet which for me personally is a huge no-no.

When it comes to the plot in this book, its all but straight going. The plot in this book is boring, very confusing and very uninteresting. The plot is very difficult because when you first start reading this book you don’t have any clue about what is happening. And when you start the get the hang of the plot, all you get is the main character sitting at his desk and reading his papers.

The characters in this book are very flat and very uninteresting. I just couldn’t get myself to care about any of the characters in this book. Because they don’t have any character or any personality. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Orlando” By Virginia Woolf Review

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‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth’s England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

Here we go again talking about a classic which didn’t work for me. Even thou 99% of the classic books I read don’t work me, I sometimes stumble across amazing books as “The Great Gatsby”. But this book is very far from that in my opinion.

Even thou I didn’t have a lot of exceptions for this book, I still managed some how to get disappointed in this book. I hear a lot of both good and bad about this book. And after having reading this one I can honestly say that it is truly bad in my opinion. 

The copy I got of this book has 298 pages, and all of these pages were descriptions of things that were happening and doing so the author of this book forgot about the plot. 

The plot in this book is almost none existing, I write this book 2 days after finishing this book and I can fully say that I don’t know what this book was about because the amount of descriptions in this book over rule the plot in this book.

However the writing style in this book was very very good which truly made me happy because it was the only good thing about this book in my opinion.

When it comes to the characters in this book, I can tell you that they are very flat, boring and you wont remember them after finishing this book. Even during reading this book I couldn’t name even one character that was in this book.

A lot of people on the internet call this book “the longest and most charming love-letter in literature”, but if I received a love letter like this, I would beat the shit of the person who wrote that letter to me. Because it was so awful and it didn’t make any sense to me.

This book was my first book written by Virginia Wolf, and if the rest of her work are like this one, I wont continue my adventure with her work. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Redbreast” By Jo Nesbø Review

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The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation’s shadowy past. Vogue magazine says that “nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than a Scandinavian thriller writer”…and nobody does it better than Jo Nesbø! James Patterson fans should also take note.

This book is the third book in the “Harry Hole” series. And I got to say that this really disappointed me further than the second book in this series. 

Even thou the second book in this series in my opinion was bad, some how this book this book is even worse than the second book in this series.

This book has two plot lines with sort of creates a mystery for Harry Hole to solve. The first plot line is the modern day Oslo, Norway. And the second plot line was Oslo, Norway during WW2 time period. For me personally those two plot lines made it confusing and when the plot lines were switching made me lose interest in this book.

The character even Harry Hole were flat, boring and uninteresting. Which really pissed me off, because in the first book in this series, I completely loved Harry Hole, and seeing his character getting watered down like this in this book, really hurt my heart.

This book contains a lot of characters, which really makes it hard to keep track of every character because all of the characters we get in this book seem like the same character without anything which makes them unique or something which will set them apart from the rest of the characters.

The writing style here was not the greatest I’ve seen in this series, its not quite bad but it isn’t neither good. 

The twist at the end of this book was almost none existing, because the closer you got to the end, the more you could sense how this book would end. Which really pissed me off and made me what to scream at Jo Nesbø for why he done that.

During reading this book I had a lot of moments where I wanted to quite reading this book and just put it in the DNF category, but since this is the 3th book in the series I kept going until the end. To see if this book got better, but it never did.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“1:35AM” By Scott Cawthon & Andrea Waggener & Elley Cooper Review

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From twisted toys to gut-wrenching games, this collection of terrifying tales is unsettling enough to mess with even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans. In this volume, horror master Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of FNAF’s canon. Each story comes complete with accompanying artwork from a fan-favorite game artist to bring the horror to life in a whole new way.

I gotta be honest here and say the further I go into this series the more I don’t like it.

This book has 3 different short stories in it, which happens in the 5 nights at Freddy’s universe.

All of the 3 stories in this book drag for way too long. They all could have been at least 30 pages shorter and it would make them so much better, rather than fill the pages with events with have nothing to do but to torture the readers.

The further I go into this series the more it feels like it is a very poor parody of “are you afraid of the dark?” And “goosebumps” books. 

Most of the stories in this book were focused on adults, however it they really felt like they were children because of the stupid decisions they made.

Ive said it twice before and I’m gonna say again I’m not a fan of the whole 5 nights at Freddy’s universe. And the more I read this book series the more reason I find to not like the universe.

The writing style here is very poor, and it feels like it was written by a child or an author who tries to make children love him / her.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“King Pest” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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It is about the adventure of two drunk sailors who venture into a deserted part of the city, escaping without payment from the local pub

Need to say that this story remind me of The Hangover. If The Hangover happened in the 14th century London during the Black Death pandemic.

It was pretty interesting and fun to read, but there were a lots of things which I personally didn’t like or didn’t quit understand.

The writing style was good, but not as quit gothic and dark as you might expect from Edgar Allan Poe. But still it was good.

This story was good and quick to read, but still it could have been better than it was actually was. 

To be honest the entire story reminded me of something that Lewis Carroll would write and not something Edgar Allan Poe would write. 

For the most part it was written nicely with some black humour in it.

I give this poem 1 / 5

“Before Watchmen: Minutemen / Silk Spectre” By Darwyn Cooke & Amanda Conner Review

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The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all-time are finally here: BEFORE WATCHMEN! For over twenty years, the back stories of the now-iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s landmark graphic novel had been the subject of much debate and theorizing. Now, DC Comics has assembled the greatest creators in the industry to further paint the world of WATCHMEN, starting with this first volume starring MINUTEMEN and SILK SPECTRE

To be very honest here this comics has to be one of the weakest comic books I’ve read so far but at the same time I haven’t read that many comic books so far.

This comic book was very boring and uninteresting. At the same time it was very confusing because each chapter was different things it felt like the chapters had no correlation with each other.

And the characters felt like the authors of this comic book just doesn’t give a shit about them and they were just there to fix up the illustrations and dialogue in this comic book.

This comic book is also a good example of why prequels always fail. Because going back to the original storyline and trying to re-write details never works but what it does is to piss of the fans of the franchise which this comic books is very good at.

I Give This Book 1 / 5