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" Jedna na milion" by Katarzyna Pawluś Review

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94“No request is too bold, no need is too great. Hope for a miracle is never absurd. Katarzyna Pawluś, experienced by fate, pampered by God, sets a task for us to measure up to our strength. He writes about miracles, making dreams come true and love in a very difficult time, when he is ill and fights for his life. A little humorous, a bit reflective, but always with unwavering faith in man – in his good and wisdom, with the message “You are a miracle!”.

So another biography. which probably shouldn’t exist. Don’t get me wrong I like to read biographies because you can always learn something but this one was just to bad.

This woman have a rare and unexplored illness which doesn’t make her life to a Disney story. But this book more or less fails to show that.

This book is basically a collection of blog posts made into a book. Which is more or less and bad idea.

It is up to you if you want to pay for this book which is basically bunch of blogs posts put together into a book. And by the way, these blog posts which are in this book are available on her blog for free.

This book overall feels like it has no end, because you know who wants to read blog posts for couple of hours.

I give this book 1 / 5

«Mów Własnym Glosem» by Regina Brett Review

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95Speak With Your Voice is 50 engaging lessons about the power of words – not silence; about the fact that even if the truth is difficult to face, only in this way will we become free. How to exercise courage? How to face everyday life in spite of our fears and fears? And finally – how to share your story so that it is inspiration and hope?

So this is another self-help books, the thing with self-help books is that you either love the book you just read or you completely hate it.

It is a quick read, and you will really read it in just 3-4 days. The text in this book are pretty big and the chapters are pretty small.

Every chapter is a different “lesson”, and every “lesson” isn’t longer than 5 ish sides. However none of these “lessons” are really lessons, they are pretty much stories from the author’s life. Which will not change anything in your own life.  And a lot of these so-called “lessons” were (in my opinion) targeting a special groups of people. Well come on we are in 2020 not in 1920.

This book have a lots of good reviews, but truly this book doesn’t deserve all these good reviews.  There were parts in this book that made me feel like the author wanted to squeeze every dollar from people who are buying this book.

If you watched some interviews with the author of this book. You will quickly see that what she writes in this book is the opposite of what she is saying in these interviews.site things which she say in some interviews which I had watched. She is also roasting herself a lot in this book which is probably something  you shouldn’t do in a book at least.

In the end these so-called “lessons” doesn’t learn you anything. And the entire book book feels like reading a blogger who is trying to be a journalist way too hard. And its probably too long because most of these “lessons” could have been one sentence long or 1 page long.

And how can you name random stories from the author’s life “life lessons” ? thats the big questions with this book. Another thing here is that bringing in every lesson religon is bad idea. Because thats why too much religion.

   I give this book 1 / 5

“Nightflyers” by George R. R. Martin Book Review

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97A nine-member team of Academy scholars from the planet Avalon led by the astrophysicist Karoly d’Branin are searching for the volcryn, an enigmatic alien species with an advanced interstellar travel technology. The main protagonist is Melantha Jhirl, a dark-skinned genetically engineered human who is a head taller than the other scholars. Due to limited funds, d’Branin has hired the services of the Nightflyer, a modified trader owned by captain Royd Eris. The enigmatic Royd keeps to his own sphere of the ship, preferring to correspond with the passengers via hologram. Royd secretly spies on the passengers using computer monitors.

To be honest this book was the first George R.R Martin book I’ve read. Game of thrones books are on my 2021 TBR list, so expect these reviews in a couple of months.

I didn’t knew anything about this book when I was going into it. This book is sort of science fiction type of book. There is a lot of spaceship action. 99% of this book takes place in a spaceship.

The characters here are super flat and it is very difficult to tell them apart. Because they are so similar to each other and none of them have anything unique about them or something which will make you go “yeah thats that person”.  All these characters (expect of two) are so similar in behaviour that you will have very hard time separating them apart.

Writing style in this book are kind of similar to something which a 10-year-old would have written for a school assignment. The whole writing in this book is more or less “this happened and that happened.” For me personally the whole writing style felt lazy and it was almost like George R.R Martin was bored out of his mind when he was writing this book.

The ending is well bad, but still it is the best part of the book. This ending is the same as almost every other science fiction book or movie.

This book would be much better if it was longer and if George R.R Martin would bother to make the characters interesting and make us care about them.

In the end I need to give this book points for the unique idea behind it which we don’t see a lot of in science fiction books or shows.

It is important to say that this book have the potential to have more books written about it. Because it sort of leaves an open ending which means that there can be sequels, etc.

There are some very uncomfortable lines and there is way too much sexism. There are two lines which was used more than 5 times on every single page. These two lines were “I’m an improved model” and “I’m a sex machine”. Don’t think that these two lines were said by multiple characters in this book. These two lines were said by the same character over and over again. Every time that character said something it was involving one of these two lines. For me personally it was a torture.

Plot holes are also a huge part of this book. This book jumps in time like a lot. You will be reading one page and it will be about Day 1 of the adventures and then to begin to read page two and there will be like Day 50 of the adventures.

I promise you that you will have a lot of questions while you will read this book. And most of them will not be answered.

Descriptions feels like they were written by a 10-year-old. The descriptions are pretty much empty words without any deeper meaning.

Action in this book had the potential to be amazing and unique, but again George R.R Martin didn’t bother to give us this. There could be much more action than it actually was and the connection between the characters could have been shown but of course it wasn’t. And the dialogues aren’t much better. For the most part they are boring or cringe.

I give this book 1 / 5