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“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories” By Washington Irving Review

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This book is a collection of short stories written by Washington Irving. I will of course review each short story individually since this review would be very very long if I reviewed each short story which this book includes in this review.

To be honest most of the short stories in this book have been a 2-star reads for me personally. I didn’t hate the short stories in this book but I didn’t like them either. Of course I will explain more in each of the review on those short stories in this book.

After reading this book and all of the short stories in this book I believe that Washington Irving’s work isn’t for me. Because I didn’t like none of the short stories in this book as I wanted to. But after reading a lot of books in my time I need to say that he isn’t a bad author because I have seen worse.

The writing style in those short stories in this book is pretty much the same. It was pretty gothic. And I gotta say that I loved it a lot. 

After reading this book and all the short stories in this book I gotta say that I wouldn’t recommend it to people because it wasn’t as good as I wanted to be. 

I for sure had a lot of expectations for this book and most of the short stories in this book because I’ve heard a lot of good about them but after reading those short stories personally I gotta say that they didn’t leave up to all the goods things said about them on the internet. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“FCBD 2019: Avengers/Savage Avengers #1” By Jason Aaron & Gerry Duggan Review

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Free Comic Book Day 2019 is the perfect chance to dive deep into the Marvel Universe with new stories and exciting adventures alongside some of Marvel’s most acclaimed creators – and this year, Marvel is bringing you the biggest and boldest stories yet! FCBD AVENGERS #1 features a story by industry superstars Jason Aaron and Stefano Caselli that sets the stage of the main Avengers series just in time for Marvel’s highly anticipated movie Endgame, while an all-new thrilling 10-page tale from Gerry Duggan and Mike Deodato creates one of the most unique, dynamic, and deadly versions of the Avengers ever- the Savage Avengers!

I gotta admit here that this comic book is very far from being one of the good Avengers comic book I’ve read in my time.  But let me explain everything in this comic book. 

This comic book gives a crossover which aims in a way to draw readers into the action-packed worlds of both the Avengers and the Savage Avenger and at the same time to explore the MCU timelines and multiverses. 

I need to be honest here I say that I was never fan of the MCU multiverse plots, since I found them way to boring and unnecessary since whats the point of creating a timeline make pump out of it a dozen movies and comic books if you gonna start dropping the multiverse onto the readers and say “hey that timeline doesn’t matter anymore since we have other more important timelines”. But I guess this is a personal thing since it varies a lot from person to person if they like the multiverse or not. 

But what I liked about this comic book was the idea of merging the Avengers with a more brutal, savage team which I found to be very intriguing. Because in a way to gives us a dynamic clash of styles and personalities that could lead to exciting interactions.

The second thing I liked about this comic book was the artwork in this comic book. Since I found it to be a boast to the vibrant and energetic style of this comic book. But at the same time the artwork in a way is effectively showcasing the action and character designs. And of course the artwork gives us a highlight, capturing the essence of each character.

But what I really didn’t like about this comic book was the fact that the narrative feels disjointed and lacks a cohesive thread,  which makes it difficult in a way for readers to fully engage with the plot.

There were also pacing inconsistencies in this comic book. Because at times the pacing feels very rushed which makes it gloss over things which I found to be interesting but at other times it feels like it drags for too long at times which makes the whole comic book feel almost boring and uninteresting. 

The other issue I found with this comic book was that certain key characters in this comic book seem to lack depth, resulting in interactions that feel superficial. And because of this I found it hard to connect with them and like them like I did in other comic books or even movies.

At the same time this comic book had a good premise, but the way it was executed and presented to us feels disappointing. It fails to capitalize on the potential drama and excitement that could arise from the clash between the two teams.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“FCBD 2021: Avengers/Hulk #1” By Jason Aaron & Donny Cates Review

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In a land beyond time, a shining tower stands, deploying its operatives across the Multiverse to hold against the encroaching darkness! Who is the mysterious Avenger Prime, and how will his advent impact on the past, the present, and the very future of the mighty Avengers? Plus, Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley present a story that leads into their upcoming run on HULK.

I gotta admit that this was far from being a good Marvel comic book, of course I haven’t read a lot of them yet but those I’ve read so far were so much better than this one. 

We get two plot lines in this comic book, one is following the Avengers franchise continuation and the second it follows no other than Hulk. 

This comic book had the potential to be very good because I found both stories to be fun and interesting. But I had a lot of problems with the pacing and coherence with both of those two storylines in this comic book.

There are times where both plots in this comic book feel disjointed in a way and they also feel like they somehow lack a clear direction of where they want to go with the plots presented in this comic book. 

At the same time both plots feel very rushed in a way, and because of this some of the important and fun moments in the both plots are being glossed over rather than giving the readers a more in-depth experience if you will. 

Because of those problems I mentioned about, both plots in this comic book makes it difficult for me at least to fully engage with the plot or get invested in the conflicts presented and invested in the characters we get in both plots.

I liked the artwork in both plots, but at times the artwork doesn’t quite elevate the both story in this comic book in a way. Which left me personally kind of disappointed. The artwork feels very dynamic with the plot and characters together, but there are times when the artwork feels very chaotic and cluttered especially if it comes to the hulk part of this comic book.

We all know at this point in 2025, that both Avengers and Hulk are pretty big and well established heroes. But this comic book makes them come off as superficial and as if they are lacking the depth and nuance that fans expect.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Kidnapped” By Robert Louis Stevenson Review

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Swindled out of his inheritance, recently orphaned David Balfour finds himself kidnapped and aboard a slave ship bound for the Carolinas shortly after the Jacobite rising of 1745. A shipwreck leads to a chance encounter and an unlikely rescuer. Highland rebel and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. An incredible friendship blossoms between the two young men, who occupy opposite ends of the political and religious spectra. Together they return to the mainland, outwit many murderous foes and schemers, and attempt to restore David to his rightful fortune.

I gotta admit that this book is slightly overhyped on the internet. I read this book since I’ve read on internet that this book was very good, but after having actually read this book I need to say that this book is so much less impressive as people on the internet claim it to be. 

This book had a intriguing and good premise for a plot since we follow a 17-year-old named David Balfour, who is alone in the world of 1751 Scotland. I gotta admit that if I was him in that scenario I would be very fucked. 

The plot here is very sad because the main characters seems to be followed by a dark cloud of betrayal and danger while he is trying to search for his own identity after his father dies. 

I gotta admit that I liked the rich historical context this book has, and at the same time I also liked a lot this book’s backdrop of 18th-century Scotland. I found both of those aspects in this book to be very fun, interesting and intriguing and thats why I said above that this book had a intriguing and good premise for a plot.

The author is able to capture the landscape and cultural tensions of the time in which the plot of this book takes place in. Which in a way gives us a vivid sense of place. 

But there are a lot of times where this book drags a lot which made it difficult to say interesting and engaged in the book as I was reading it.

The main character here was okay for the most part. He begins as a very reliable protagonist for this book but the deeper we get into this book the more the main character’s journey begins to lack a form of depth to it which made it difficult for me at least to connect with him the deeper I went into this book. 

When it comes to the side characters of this book, they feel very one-dimensional and gave me the impression that the author didn’t really care about the side characters but needed them to connect the dots for the plot to be complete. 

The writing style in this book is fun because for the most part it is very rich, descriptive and it sets a very nice tone to the plot. But at times the writing style uses way too many words about situations or things which could have been explained in one sentence. And in a way this affects the action happening in this book, because the moment something interesting begins to happen the writing style uses way too many words to describe what is happening that it distracts you from the actual action happening.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Joe Biden” By Evan Osnos Review

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Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest – fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship – an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.

The main reason why I deiced to read this book was that I wanted to learn more about Joe Biden without reading a 500 + pages long book on him. I was never a fan of Joe Biden and I wanted to learn more about him to change my opinion about him. 

This book tries to paint Joe Biden was a good guy but it gives us the opposite effect. Since it talks about people who he had disagreements with and all the questionable things he said about people he didn’t like. Its easy to say that this book didn’t help me to change my opinion about him but rather made me agree more with my opinion about him. 

This book is under 200 pages long, but reading this book felt like infinity and like this book would never end. 

The majority about this book is about how bad of a president candidate Donald Trump is and how much better president would be Joe Biden. Which isn’t a Joe Biden biography but rather a woke commentary about why you shouldn’t vote for republicans. 

This book doesn’t have any chronological order of events in Joe Biden life because it keeps jumping back and forward in time without any correlation. It starts with talking about Joe Biden senator, then it goes to talking about Joe Biden being the vice president, then it goes back in time to talk about how Joe Biden became a candidate for vice president under Barack Obama’s presidency, then it goes to talk about Joe and Jill living together, then it goes to back to talk about Joe’s first wife dying etc. 

This book is all over the place and doesn’t have any timeline it follows. So if you are looking for an actually biography about Joe Biden then this book isn’t the choice for that.

The wiring style felt like it belongs more to a blog rather than to a biography book which this book is put under on Goodreads. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Tank Girl: Free Comic Book Day 2018” By Alan C. Martin & Jamie Hewlett Review

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As Tank Girl settles around the campfire with her friends to celebrate her big birthday, she recounts tales from her past that illustrate how she became the loveable, unhinged idiot that she is today. Written by series co-creator Alan Martin, with artwork by fan-favorite series artist Brett Parson and friends. Features classic cover by Jamie Hewlett.

I gotta say that this comic book was more of a “miss” for me rather than a “hit”. This comic book had some good moments to it but for the most part I found this comic book to be more on the boring side than anything else.

Its important to say that this comic book was my first time coming across Tank Girl, since I haven’t read any of the Tank Girl comic books before reading this one. Which might explain why I did give this comic book such a low rating as I did. 

This comic book gives us a glimpse into the chaotic and irreverent world of Tank Girl, which for me didn’t work because I never read any of the Tank Girl comic books before this one as I said above so a big part of me not liking this one is because of the reason. 

I gotta say that this comic book doesn’t give us a lot of action or anything close to action. The nearest we got into action was the Tank Girl punching her childhood bully on her each birthday every single year. Not thats a childhood issues being unresolved if you ask me and not really “action”.

What I liked about this comic book is the punk aesthetic and offbeat humor which this comic book has. And I gotta admit that I gave this comic book extra for.

The artwork in this comic book isn’t the best I’ve seen in a comic book. I don’t know if the artwork is the same in the rest of Tank Girl comics but I wasn’t a fan of it personally.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“This Book Is A Mistake!: A Funny And Interactive Story For Kids” By Ron Keres & Arthur Lin Review

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Finn LOVES being a frog, but when a curious kid picks up crayons and starts doodling on his pages, Finn’s world takes an unexpected leap! He’s suddenly tempted by the idea of a bigger muscles, snazzy glasses, and a full head of hair. Sounds fantastic, right?

I gotta say that this book has the same issue on kindle version of this book as the previous book in this series I reviewed. 

But overall this book is a good and simple book for maybe first and second grade aged children. And I believe the children will have a fun time reading this book.

The premise of this book is a frog teaching a lesson about not scribbling and drawing in books, which would have been relevant for at least myself because I used to do that a lot when I was 6 and 7 years old.

But if you are reading this book as an adult then well I gotta say that it is less impressive for you then than I guess it would have been for children this book is meant for.

This book is simple and easy to read. And I gotta say that this book has its fun parts which makes this book fun to read.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“This Book Is Perfect!” By Ron Keres & Arthur Lin Review

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Finn is not like most frogs. Finn likes things clean— perfectly clean. His book is immaculate. It’s amazing. It’s PERFECT. (Well, according to him) But one day, an oopy, goopy mess begins to sneak its way onto Finn’s pristine pages, threatening to disrupt his perfect world. Determined to restore order, Finn embarks on a mission to fix the mess. But he soon learns that not all messes can be fixed. And not all messes should be fixed. Will Finn be able to accept that his book will never be the same?

I gotta say that I was expecting this book to be boring and uninteresting for me personally since its a picture-book meant for children. But since it was a free book for my kindle I decided to read it and see where my opinion would lead for this book.

One of the main problems with this book is that this book isn’t really made to read on a kindle, since the cover looks not great, its hard to read and even harder to navigate without the entire book glitching.

But overall this book is a good and simple book for maybe first and second grade aged children. And I believe the children will have a fun time reading this book.

The premise of this book is a frog teaching a lesson about having clean hands, and the importance of having a clean house and room. Which is a good lesson for children.

But if you are reading this book as an adult then well I gotta say that it is less impressive for you then than I guess it would have been for children this book is meant for.

This book is simple and easy to read. And I gotta say that this book has its fun parts which makes this book fun to read.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Police” By Jo Nesbø Review

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When a police officer is found murdered at the scene of an old unsolved murder case that he was involved in investigating, it can hardly be a coincidence. When the same thing happens to two other officers in a matter of months the pattern is as clear as it is terrifying. None of the old cases were ever solved. The killings are extremely brutal and the police have no leads. What’s more, they’re missing their best investigator.

This book is the 10th book in the “Harry Hole” book series created by no other than Jo Nesbø himself. One of the best crime novel authors I come across so far in my book journey. 

I gotta be honest, this book and the 2 previous once were a big misses for me personally. Because I didn’t like them as much as I liked the book in this series up to book 7. And then after book 7 the whole series started going very downhill for me.

This book has a very generic plot for any police deceptive book in existence. The plot in this book is about a serial killer going solely after cops and the only person who can catch the serial killer is lone main character. 

There are a lot of moments in this book where it foes to hell and just becomes very boring and uninteresting and the situations drag for way too long than they needed to be. I personally think that at least 50 pages could have been removed from this book and it only would have made it better.

The characters in this book all over the place, and even Harry Hole doesn’t feel like Harry Hole in this book. He feels more like a imposter than the Harry Hole we spend 9 books getting to know. But at the same time all the female characters in this book are very manipulative. Like one female character falsely accuses a male character of rape. And the rest of the female characters aren’t better than that.

The writing style is the worst it have been this entire series so far. The writing style didn’t even feel like it was written by Jo Nesbø but rather written by a very newbie ghost writer.

The ending in this book is ridiculous. When you read the end you are left thinking “this cant be the end, my copy must be missing a few pages”. Or at least it was what I was thinking when I read the ending of this book. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“In a Dark Place” By Lorraine Warren & Ed Warren Review

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The story of the most terrifying case of demonic possession in the United States. It became the basis for the hit film “The Haunting in Connecticut” starring Virginia Madsen. Shortly after moving into their new home, the Snedeker family is assaulted by a sinister presence that preys one-by-one on their family. Exhausting all other resources, they call up the world-renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren—who have never encountered a case as frightening as this.

Here we are again talking about another book coming from Ed and Lorraine Warren. I gotta say that this book was much better than the previous book from the Warrens I’ve read. But it to be classify as good it has a long way to go.

I gotta admit that I never been a fan of the Warrens since I always thought that they were just scammers, and trying to make bucks telling the world lies. 

This book is pretty much a horror book rather than a nonfiction book. Because it doesn’t give us any evidence or proof that the things talked about in this book actually happened. So this book as the rest of the Warrens’s book are just a very word of mouth books. 

If you expect to hear a lot from the Warrens in this book, then you will get very surprised. Because 70% of this book is just a retellings of cases. And the Warrens only jump into the picture in the last 30% of this book. Which is really weird since this book is about their cases but we get almost nothing from them.

All the Warrens do in this book, is go into the house, say some prayers and then leave. Which is not great to admit to that in your own book. That you basically didn’t do anything to help those people if this case is real and not made up to sell this book. 

The writing style in this book is well, not the greatest. Sure it is easy and simple to understand. And it makes the entire book quick and fun in a way to read. But at the same time its just way too simple. 

The writing style feels like a writing style straight out of “Goosebumps” books which is of course meant for children. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5