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“Slow Horses” By Mick Herron Review

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London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.

Maybe the world of secret agents isn’t for me. Because it was the first book about a secret agent I’ve read and I ended up DNF-ing it pretty fast. 

The plot here wasn’t my type to be honest. I had super hard time trying to get into the plot. My main problem with this plot is that is overly complicated. And the beginning of this book is very very slow. 

The use of acronyms and nicknames was irritating because it was overused and it was super confusing trying yo remember who had which nickname and what these different acronyms meant in this book.

Characters in this book to be honest feel like the same person just using different clothes. There are couple of characters in this book and I just can’t name one of them because I just didn’t care for them and I just couldn’t find myself to even try to like them. 

The main character feels more like a side character because a whole chapter can go by without the main character being even mentioned- 

The writing style here was probably the best part of this book but still I felt like there was something missing here. The writing style here felt over complicated and it felt like it was written as a school textbook rather than a mystery / thriller book

This book is very chaotic and very confusing. I personnel had super hard time trying to focus on the plot which almost didn’t exist in this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Roadside Crosses” By Jeffery Deaver Review

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Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet to come and someone, armed with information gleaned from careless and all-too-personal blog postings, intends to carry out those killings. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but who will be the victims? Her body language expertise leads her to a recent fatal car crash, and to the driver, Travis Brigham, a gaming-obsessed teen who’s become the target of vicious cyberbullies. And when Travis disappears, Kathryn must lead a furious manhunt in the elusive world of bloggers and social networking, where nothing is as it seems.

This book is full of very boring and uninteresting moments which pretty much kill the desire to find out how it ends.

The ending of this was pretty okay for the most part but the further you get into this book the more boring it becomes. I personally DNF-ed it after having read 72%. 

The plot here was bad. Because it felt like it was a tutorial on how to use internet and  tutorial on blogs, social media, shortcuts, how to use internet and what teens do on the Internet but in a crime / mystery form.

This book was very slow and there was almost 0 action in this book which really made it a tortures read. 

The characters her were very flat. To be fully honest here every characters seemed as the same person and it is almost impossible to tell them apart. 

This book had a ridiculous overuse of word “like” which was in almost every sentence which really got annoying after awhile. 

The writing style here was super bad as well. Because it overused some specific words. But also it repeated the same things over and over again in every chapter. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“A Room of One’s Own” By Virginia Woolf Review

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A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

My first book written by Virginia Woolf and I gotta say that I wasn’t a big fan of this book. This book might be a bad place to start the journey with Virginia Wolf but at least it is a start with her works.

This book is more of are couple of feminist essays than rather a book. But it was a quick read overall. 

I can’t say that it was enjoyable or interesting read for me personally but it was defiantly a read which will give you some ideas on how life was back in the late 20s when this book was first published. 

The writing style was good and super old timey which I personnel love. But I felt like Virginia Woolf could have put a little more effort into it or it might be me who is being very picky. 

In this essays, Virginia Woolf tackled themes about women and fiction and the impact of privilege. Which were interesting to read but not super fun to read. Because to me felt like I was back in middle school and listening to a lecture about a topic I didn’t care about. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Grandmother” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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Grandmother is old, kind, and she knows many stories. Between the pages of her psalter can be found a pressed withered rose that she often regards with a smile on her lips. Do you know why?

This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Bell” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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In the narrow streets of the big town, toward evening when the sun was setting and the clouds shone like gold on the chimney tops, people would hear a strange sound like that of a church bell. But they heard it only for a few moments before it was lost in the rumble of city carriages and the voices of the multitudes, for such noises are very distracting. “Now the evening bell is ringing,” people used to say. “The sun is setting.”

This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Shepherdess And The Chimney Sweep” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Holger Danske” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Jumpers” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Red Shoes” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Elf Mound” By Hans Christian Andersen Review

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This one was really not for me. Maybe reading children stories as an adult isn’t the best thing to do for some people.

I personally found this story to be very boring and uninteresting. I really had hard time reading it because I just couldn’t get into the story.

The story is pretty quick read, but that’s the only good thing about this story for me personally.

The writing style in this one was very generic which every fairytale has.

I Give This Book 1 / 5