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“Rewizja” By Remigiusz Mróz Review

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Żona i córka robotnika z Ursynowa giną tragicznie w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach. Ich polisa na życie jest tak duża, że towarzystwo ubezpieczeniowe nie spieszy się z jej wypłaceniem. Pogrążony w żałobie mężczyzna spodziewa się problemów, ale to, co go spotyka, przechodzi jego najśmielsze obawy. Ubezpieczyciel odmawia wypłaty, twierdząc, że to robotnik zamordował rodzinę. Zaraz potem prokuratura stawia mu zarzuty, a on rozpoczyna walkę o uniewinnienie i własny honor. Pomaga mu prawniczka, która niedawno pogrzebała całą swoją karierę.

At the time of writing this book this book is available in Polish and Ukrainian.

This book is the third book in the book series “Chyłka & Zordon” and I got to be hones there and say that this book was less impressive and much more less fun than the first two books in this series.

This book is the longest book in this series so far, so I was expecting more action and more juicy crime investigation from the main characters. But we didn’t get it. 

80% of this book the main characters doesn’t talk with each other since at the end of the second book they had a big argument and Chyłka left the law firm named “Żelazny & McVay” which to this point was the firm where the two main characters were working at. 

If you loved the first book in this series as much as I do, then you will get surprised and excited for during reading this book since one of the main characters from book one will have a huge comeback in this book.

The plot here was really dragged out at times, and because of this aspect this book would have been so much better if it was shorted down to like 450 – 500 pages rather than being over 600 pages long.

There are quite a few events in this book which doesn’t lead us anywhere. I don’t know why does events were in the book, since they leave you thinking “why did this happen if it just irrelevant for the plot as a whole?”.

There is also a huge “What The Fuck?” moment in this book which have something to do with one of the side characters which I love as much as the main character. Which of course is Kormak. 

The writing style is as amazing as in the first two books in this series. Its like the author know what words to use to completely grab your attention and not let it go until the very end of this book.  Which I personally love when it happens in this book and its a easy way for me to give the book some extra points. 

The characters here are as good as they were in the first two books. Of course we don’t see a lot of progress in the relationship between Chyłka  and Zordon. Because as I’ve said before they spend 80% of this book not on speaking terms nor do they see each other or try to contact each other.

However there were couple of times were I would get angry at Chyłka during this book, because in this book her alcohol problem gets way bigger and way out of hands and she makes the stupidest decisions ever like drinking vodka during the break of a court session. 

There were also times were I would get pissed of at Zordon, because he would be like the most career driven asshole as I have seen in my life. And he would like do the most dick head moves towards Chyłka. 

However the ending is very good, because the end is where Zordon decides to be the good guy and decides to not play along being the bad guy and teams up with Chyłka again. Which really made me happy.

The main case of this book was okay, but it wasn’t as interesting, intriguing and mysterious as the cases from the two previous books. I like the case in this book but I wasn’t impressed and intrigued by it as I was in the previous two books of this series.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Ahsoka” By E.K. Johnston Review

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Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars, and before she re-appeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally, her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation of Order 66, Ahsoka is unsure she can be part of a larger whole ever again. But her desire to fight the evils of the Empire and protect those who need it will lead her right to Bail Organa, and the Rebel Alliance.

Once again ive read a star wars book from the new era of Star Wars where everything goes to shit. By it I mean after Disney purchased Star Wars to destroy it.

I personally think that Ahsoka is one of many underrated characters from the Star Wars universe which the movies completely ignores but which we as star wars deserve to see more of. And I don’t mean those watered down Disney star wars shows or books.

This book had a lot of potential which the author didn’t use. It takes place not long after the order 66. So of course books set in that time have great potential especially if the books are about Jedis who have survived. But this book completely ignores that and just give use not so great book.

The plot here was okay, it was entertaining and interesting. But to say more about the plot its almost impossible because in the end the author gave us a very shallow plot besides it being somehow entertaining and interesting.

To be very honest the plot is heavily amid towards the new fans of star wars rather than the old fans of star wars. Because it gives us a lot of background information which old fans have heard a million times before like ahsoka being a Anakin’s Palawan during clone wars, Anakin turning to the dark side, Obi-wan hiding on Tattoine, Sheev Palpatine being a shit lord and being able to hide that fact from Jedis when he was a senator and then a Supreme Chancellor etc.

However I liked the fact that this book brought out those facts for new fans because those facts were nicely presented and I actually liked how the author have given us the facts in this book.

The writing style again makes you feel like it is more of an YA writing style rather than anything else. Because of this it makes you feel even more on how this book is targeting the new fans of star wars rather than the old fans.

But even thou the writing style feels like a YA written style, there are a lot of moments in the plot where the plot seems like it was written for pre-teens between the ages of like 6 – 12. 

When it comes to the characters in this book I have to say that aren’t the greatest. They are still good, but I wouldn’t love Ahsoka so much if this book was my introduction to her rather than the Clone Wars animated series. This is because she is more on the shallow side, and she doesn’t feel like herself because she is more like Obi-Wan in this book. Which means that she thinks mostly about tactics and strategies. Which made me feel like the author is trying to take what people love about Obi-Wan and give his attributes to Ahsoka to make her the new Obi-Wan if you will.

At times this book felt like I did hate some of the OG characters because how it mentioned them in passing like they didn’t matter at all. Like Bail Organa or Yoda. Which really didn’t go well with me. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Snape: The definitive analysis of Hogwarts’s mysterious potions master” By Lorrie Kim Review

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While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J.K. Rowling’s most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered demanding, acerbic, and impossible to ignore. Over the span of seven novels, Snape’s remarkable role in the series can be hard to Where do his true allegiances lie? Can a former Death Eater change his spots? Why does he seem to loathe the boy he’s pledged to protect?

As some of you might know, my all time favorite character from the wizarding world universe is no other than Severus Snape. So when I found out that this book exists of course I needed to read it ASAP. And now I did.

Its been a while since ive read any books from the wizzarding world so I’m glad that there are more books coming from this universe and that I picked up this book.

I personally don’t have any strong feelings about this book, because I didn’t like it nor did I dislike it. I’m glad that I’ve read this book but I’m very neutral about this book after reading this book.

To be very honest this book doesn’t bring anything new to the universe, as all of those things which this book mentions have already been found out and talked about on Harry Potter Theory YouTube channel which by the way is incredible and I recommend watch the hell out of it, if you are like me a huge wizarding world nerd.

This book talks about Severus Snape in all 7 movies and the theater play which was published back in 2016 if I’m not fully mistaken. 

When it comes to the 7 movies this book presents us with quotes from Severus Snape or Harry, Hermonie and Ron or other students or teachers / characters talking about Severus Snape which may give us a better picture of who truly Severus Snape is behind all the secrets and Dumbledore’s schemes.

However this book is very objective, because its not canon or anything close to being the Wizzarding world official statement of who Severus Snape really is. And because of this book being objective I found myself not agreeing with handful of things which the author stated in this book. 

There were a lot of moments during reading this book where I felt that this book was dragging for way too long that it needed to. Because it would spend pages talking about a particular scene from the movies which really didn’t matter in the bigger picture. Like with the Boggart scene where no one talked about Severus Snape nor did he be present during it. 

There was also times where the author talked about J.K Rowling being homophobic because of what she said in interviews or tweeted on twitter. Which really made me want to beat the shit of the author of this book. Because just because someone doesn’t agree with the woke propaganda about sex and gender doesn’t mean they are homophobic or racist.  

The writing style here wasn’t the greatest because it felt like it was a university text book rather than a book based on a fantasy book series. Which really didn’t make me like this book more.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive” By Mark H. McCormack Review

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Mark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less than a thousand dollars, he started International Management Group and, over a four-decade period, built the company into a multimillion-dollar enterprise with offices in more than forty countries.

There are a lot of good business books out there in the world, but I gotta say that this book isn’t one of the good business book. But don’t get me wrong this book is a okay business book.

It for sure talks about a few interesting and somehow helpful things, but as someone who have read quite a few business books at this point I can tell you that this book repeats the same shit as the other business book say. This book was first published in 1984, so I will not be so harsh for this book due to its age and when it was written.

This book doesn’t have a lot of business strategies as much as his have business anecdotes from the author’s business carer and life. 

All the business strategies, tips and whatever else the author gives us in this book feels like those things you don’t get taught at Harvard Business School, because of all those things mentioned in this book are just common sense and things you should know about if you want to get into Harvard business school. So this book wasn’t that helpful, but rather it was using the name of IVY League school to get people buying this book.

All the business strategies, tips and whatever else you will find in this book are all the things the author have learned in his career and from being the CEO of IMG (International Management Group). To be honest I didn’t know who the author was before doing some research about him right before I started writing this review. And to be honest I got clickbaited to buying and reading this book.

There were many moments while reading this book, where I got the impression that the author of this book was in love and fully obsessed with himself because he founded and was the CEO of IMG. And I hate those kind of people who are acting like the whole universe is spinning around them because of that single thing they done decades before. 

But also the title is very misleading before the author of this book never went to Harvard Business School, like ever. He had only given few lectures at Harvard Business School. So how can I person who never went to that school know what the school teaches you and what it doesn’t teach you? Can someone explain that to me because I don’t understand it.

However this book is interesting and enjoyable to read. And at the same time it is very easy to understand. It is written in such a way that anyone and everyone can read it even if you didn’t go to IVY League school. Which really made me give this book some extra point for doing this.

The writing style is easy and simple. In a way the writing style makes it fun and quick to read because the writing style is very nicely put together. And it doesn’t use big fancy words as the IVY League schools like to do. 

However there were times where the book was repeating itself. Because it would talk about something is was basically the thing as the previous section but only one or two things differently said.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Queen’s Peril” By E.K. Johnston Review

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When fourteen-year-old Padmé Naberrie wins the election for Queen of Naboo, she adopts the name Amidala and leaves her family to the rule from the royal palace. To keep her safe and secure, she’ll need a group of skilled handmaidens who can be her assistants, confidantes, defenders, and decoys. Each girl is selected for her particular talents, but it will be up to Padmé to unite them as a group. When Naboo is invaded by forces of the Trade Federation, Queen Amidala and her handmaidens will face the greatest test—of themselves, and of each other.

This book is the first book in the The Padmé Trilogy by E.K. Johnston, and I have to say that this book is far from the best star wars book I’ve ever read.

Even thou it isn’t the best star wars book to be ever written, it is still a fun and enjoyable book to read. 

I never was a big fan of Padmé so thats why I might not have liked this book so much, but I still it was very interesting and enjoyable reading about her being a 14 year old girl from Naboo who was interested in politics to becoming a 14 year old Queen of Naboo. 

This book takes place a little bit before The Phantom Menace, but at the same time 35% of this book takes place parallel to the movie. So thats a nice treat, which I wasn’t expecting. 

The plot in this book focuses on the first few months of Padmé being the queen, and because of it a little bit of this book runs parallel with The Phantom Menace.

The plot itself wasn’t masterpiece, it had couple o problems here and there throughout this book. But it was still enjoyable, interesting and entertaining to read this book. 

The characters here were okay, Padmé wasn’t as likable as she was in the movies. But dont get me wrong, I liked the characters in this book, but they were less impressive than what they were in the movie. 

Of course we get some characters we didn’t get in the The Phantom Menace. But let me put it that way, most characters were on the edge of being good but weren’t fine and the rest of the characters were meh to to put it in a nice way.

To be very honest here I liked all of the characters in this book, but I didnt bother to make place for them in my soul, or to remember them for years, as I did with characters from books I truly loved.

The writing style here were actually good, I really liked it. Because it was like the author knew what words to use to grab me and make me read until the very end.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Padawan” By Kiersten White Review

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Obi-Wan Kenobi really wants to be a good Padawan. The best Padawan, even. But that’s feeling more and more impossible with his new master, Qui-Gon Jinn. All of Obi-Wan’s friends are off training to be real Jedi, getting mission experience, while he’s still on Coruscant, practicing his forms and sitting in silent contemplation. Ever since Qui-Gon’s former master, Dooku, left the Order, it feels like Qui-Gon has been too busy trying to connect with the Force or arguing with the Jedi Council to properly train his Padawan.

After reading this book I started to belive that the new star wars cannon isn’t for me because Disney doesn’t know how to wrote good star wars books which we had before Disney bought star wars.

This book is about young Obi Wan Kenobi sonly after he became the padawan of Qui-Gon Jinn. And somehow the young Obi Wan Kenobi we get in this book doesn’t feel like the same Obi Wan Kenobi we get in the movies. I know that in this book he is young and he isn’t the same person he is in the movies. But still there is something off about him, and he doesn’t have the same feeling and character if you will as the on-screen Obi Wan Kenobi.

And the same thing is also relevant for Qui-Gon Jinn. In this book Qui-Gon Jinn feels very much as a misfit in the Jedi order and not like the intelligent Jedi knight we get in the movies.

But when it comes to the plot itself, it was okay but nothing good nor bad it was firmly in the midle. I dont have any strong feelings about the plot in this book because I’m very neutral to this book. It wasn’t as bad as some of the new era star wars cannon (after Disney bought it) movies and books. 

The plot was hard to get though at times because at times it didn’t make any scene. The plot also doesn’t talk about the relationship between Obi Wan and Qui Gon, it rather talks about how insecure young Obi Wan was in his early days as a padawan, and that he felt like his padawan friends were much ahead of him. Which really bored me a bit, because I wanted to see more of the Obi Wan and Qui Gon relationship as they had in the early days as padawan and master and how it could have changed to what we see in the The Phantom Menace.

This book doesn’t really gives us anything that we dont know about Obi-Wan from the movies, but as a stand alone book its okay book. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Batman: Arkham Asylum – A Serious House on Serious Earth” By Grant Morrison Review

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In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham’s detention center for the criminally insane on April Fools’ Day, demanding Batman in exchange for their hostages. Accepting their demented challenge, Batman is forced to live and endure the personal hells of the Joker, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, and many other sworn enemies in order to save the innocents and retake the prison. During his run through this absurd gauntlet, the Dark Knight’s own sanity is placed in jeopardy. This special anniversary edition trade paperback also reproduces the original script with annotations by Morrison and editor Karen Berger.

I had some very high expectations for this comics, because ive heard a lot of good about it. And as a life long batman superfan of course I have always high expectations for batman comics. But unfortunately this comics doesn’t life to most of the expectations.

My main issue with this comics is when joker is speaking the font changes to a font which is almost impossible to read, which really annoyed me a lot. Because whats the point of using a font which people can’t read ? 

Another thing about this book is that in this comics batman doesn’t seem or feel like batman but rather he feels like a normal guy just walking to a lunatic hospital where all hell broke lose. Which really took a lot of wind of this comics.

The fighting action in this comics is almost not existing, all the fighting scenes in this comics can be gathered on one page, which really is almost nothing if you think about this comics being a comic book about a superhero who wants to decrease crime around the city by making the criminals fear him.

However the art of this comics is very very good, its very stunning to look at it, but in the end the art in this comics is the only very good thing about this comics in the long rule.

There is also a lot of symbolism in this book, which someone who isn’t very deep into batman lore and comics will miss 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Only One Left” By Riley Sager Review

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Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

This book wasn’t a master piece but I still have a lot of fun with this one.

The characters here weren’t perfect, in fact they were very very far from being perfect. The characters in this book were hard to tell apart. So I didn’t get a lot of those small clues here and there while reading this book which it turns out took a lot out of this book for me.

The writing style here was okay, but from what I read about this book on Goodreads before reading this book I had a lot of expectations for the writing style because Ive read it was very good which it wasn’t. So be warned, dont be fooled by people on the internett. 

The plot twist at the end was very good, but because I couldn’t tell the characters I didn’t like it as much if I had better control about who is who in this book. 

The plot here reminded me a little bit about “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware which I really like. But the difference between this book and  “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware is that “turn of the key” by Ruth Ware does actually have a good plot and good character not like this book. 

The plot here was for sure somewhat unique but the way it was presented to us wasn’t as good as it could have been if the author tried a little bit harder. 

But I need to give this book one point for making me want to read more books from the author which I will do at some point. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life” By Jordan B. Peterson Review

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In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

This book is the sequel to “12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos” by of course none other than  Jordan B. Peterson. 

This book isn’t as good as the first book but still you will learn far share of things from it. Jordan b Peterson gives a good and strong message in this book and teaches us how to have a functional and good life and after reading this second book I like him even more.

The writing style is heavy as in the first book, but in this book because the heavy writing style forces you think over things which Jordan B Peterson have written about in this book. This book has more a academical writing style than the more typical non fiction and non academical books but still I personally enjoyed reading this book a lot. 

The rules in this book are more obscure if you will than the rules from the first book but they are as important as the rules from the first book.

I know that I’ve said in the previous Jordan B Peterson book review, but I’m gonna say it again, reading his are fully worth it because you will learn a lot from them because there is a lot of wisdom in his books and this book isn’t any different. 

This book is very interesting, enjoyable and very helpful. And at the same time this book is hard to put down because Jordan B Peterson is very good at sucking you into his books and not letting you go until the very end of the book. Which is one of the things I love about his books.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“A Tale of Two Cities” By Charles Dickens Review

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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.

i actually didn’t have any expectations for this book and it turns out that it was far better than I had though about it would be. Its important to say that I didn’t know anything about this book before getting into it. 

This book is a very heavy reading because it doesn’t have any humour, and it talks about storming of the Bastille around 50 years after it happened. This book also contains a lot of very violent ogress. 

The characters here were actually very good, even thou I didn’t love them, I still liked them a lot to care about them. 

Some characters in this book were better than others. And by this I mean that some characters were shallow and flat and straight forward uninteresting. But some of the other characters were very interesting and I liked them a lot. 

This book is a roller coaster of a read because it contains a lot of good and bad moments for me personally. And because of it my thoughts about this book are all over the place when it comes to this book. 

The writing style in this book was very good, show how it was available to suck me into the story against my will. It was like the author knew what words to use to completely grab my attention and to not let it go. 

Even thou the writing style was available to suck me into the story, some of the moments really throw me out of the beat and made me like “WTF an I reading?”. Because some moments in this book didn’t sit well with me. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5