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“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

“The Haunting of Hill House” By Shirley Jackson Review

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It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

I had a lot of exceptions for this book, because I’ve heard a lot of good about this book but also as someone who watched and loved the Netflix show “The Haunting Of Hill House” of course I was expectations to love this book which didn’t quite happen.

The plot here is for sure unique, but it wasn’t as great as a lot of people on the interest claim it to be. Its important to say that the terror in this book focuses on the psychological horror than what we see in movies like paranormal activity.

I personally felt like nothing happened in this book which would make me love or hate this book, and because of it I am very neutral about this book. Im glad that I finally read it but I probably wont recommend this book to anyone.

As for the horror in this book, it is almost none existing. Yes some things which happened in this book were creepy and I personally would scream bloody murder if they happened to me, but I was expecting something more scarier and something bigger than what we got in this book.

There aren’t a lot of characters in this book, but the once we get are good and I liked them a lot even despite the fact we don’t spend a lot of time getting to know them other than knowing the brief facts we need to know about them. 

This book doesn’t use a lot of time on getting us familiar with the characters in this book, but rather it goes straight into the plot. Which I liked in this book because I feel like I wouldn’t like the character if we spend more time getting to know them. 

I read this book in one sitting, but it wasn’t because it was so engaging but rather because it was short and I haven’t had any plans for that Sunday I was reading this book so I decided to just read this book in one sitting.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight” By Julian Guthrie Review

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Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world’s first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world’s largest governments had done before.

As someone who is very interesting in space and space travel / exploration of course I had a lot of expectations for this book, which partly this book didn’t live up to.

I personally think that the book could have been at least 100 pages shorter than it was if it had skipped talking way too long about fancy dinners between the billionaires with space exploration companies like Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and others because I personally don’t care about their dinner parties.

I have also another issue with this book, and that issue is that this book would be way too much detailed about the first X-Prize and the people behind it. Which really I don’t care about it, let me instead get the spacecrafts and space travel action.

Other than that, this book was very good to read, it is very simple to read. It doesn’t go into a lot of details of space travel and rockets engineering which in my opinion it could and it would make it so much better than it was. 

While reading this book, you will understand how much research went into this book which really made me give this book some extra points. 

The writing style wasn’t the best here, but it was okay, it wasn’t the best nor the worst. 

This book has a lot of good information in it and some of the stories we get in this book are interesting.

However it wasn’t supper interesting which would make it hard to put down, to be very honest here it was very easy to put down. 

This book taken me couple of weeks to read because at times I wouldn’t read this book for few weeks because I didn’t have the urge to finish this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Devil’s Star” By Jo Nesbø Review

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A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work.

This book is the 5th book in the “Harry Hole” series, and so far the series been going up and down for me personally.

The plot in this book is about a serial killer running around in Oslo, Norway who is obsessed pentagrams. Which made me expect some kind of satanism themed stuff happen in this book which of course didn’t happen.

The plot was interesting when the action was happening, the action of a murder scene or the investigation was very interesting and enjoyable. But when the action wasn’t on, which means when Harry was doing something else which didn’t involve the investigation was on the very edge of becoming boring. Which means that I have some very mixed opinions about the plot.

But also in this book we get sucked deeper into the sub-plot which was happening in this book and in the previous 2 books in this series which of course is the corruption in the police force and which is the reason why Harry still has a job as a police detective even thou he struggles with alcohol and shows up drunk or drinks at the job.

The characters here were very mixed here, of course I like Harry Hole a lot, and I find Oleg to be a very good side character which makes Harry’s personality really shine and show Harry not only as a alcoholic which happens to be a very good detective. I also liked a lot Rakel and wish that we could get more of her in this book which hopefully the next books in this series will fulfill the wish.

But when it comes to the rest of the characters they were pretty uninteresting, and I found myself not caring about them as much as I wanted to. 

The writing style here was very good, because it was like the author knew what words to use to fully grab my attention and to not let me stop reading this book until the very end. 

There is no cliffhanger at the end, which really doesn’t give me the urge to finish this series as fast as possible which I wish it would. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Finders Keepers” By Stephen King Review

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The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

This book is the second book in the “Bill Hodges” series written of course by Stephen King. 

To be honest after watching the “Mr. Mercedes” tv show, I decided to reading this book series as well because the show is based of on this book series.

A part of me really liked the plot in this one because at times it gave me “misery” vibes, even thou it is very far away from the iconic “misery” book. 

However the plot itself has its ups and downs, but the downs in my opinion are much more frequent than its ups. It started very good, but the further and further it continues the less and less fun I was having with this book. 

The plot had been boring and uninteresting at times, but the moments it was actually interesting, there was very very interesting. And after finishing this book I needed to take one day to think about this book before I sat down to review this book. Thats because I was very mixed about this book. Because a part of me liked this book and the second part of me didn’t like this book.

This book has multiple perspectives it follows, so it was kind of hard to keep track of everything which was happening. In this perspective we follow the perspectives of Bill, Holly, Morris and Pete. Of course if you don’t know Bill and Holly are the private detectives, Morris is the bad guy and Pete is the kid who done something which he shouldn’t and got in trouble for it.

I personally loved Bill Hodges, Jerome and Holly Gibny as characters but when it comes to the rest of characters . Bill, Jerome and Holly were very good character even thou this book doesn’t focus on them so much as I would want it to. I personally would want this book to tell the plot from solely their perspectives which would make this book so much better. And skip the storytelling from Pete’s and Morrie’s perspectives, which for me personally was at times uninteresting and boring.  And it pretty much took the wind out if it in my opinion.

The characters (expect of Bill, Jerome and Holly) were in my opinion very flat and for the most part uninteresting. And I just couldn’t bring myself to care about them, because I just couldn’t ,are myself like them, or relegate to them in anyway.

Don’t get me wrong, this book isn’t all bad, you will be entertained while you read it because the plot has a unique way of telling a basic plot line. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Fear: Trump in the White House” By Bob Woodward Review

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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

As you may get from the title and summary of this book, this book is about Trump’s presidency. And well it talks about a lot of things involving Trump’s presidency.

This book also talks a little bit about Trump’s presidency campaign. There isn’t much talk about it, but there is some. 

This book portrays in a very good way the insides of Trump’s presidency and the issues which were there. This book puts all the issues with Trump’s presidency in simple and easy way, which makes this book suitable for everyone, no matter if you know a lot about politics or not. 

This book is written from a lot of various sources, which are listed at the end of this book which you can look up after you are finished with this book, which makes it very good because you can fact check the author if you have suspicions about things within this book.

However my main issue with this book was that it focuses a lot on the drama between Trump and FBI, but also Trump making staff changes every other week. 

Trump making staff changes every other week, isn’t that surprising because if you are familiar with trump then you know that the guy has a lot of problems and he cant stick with someone for too long.

The writing style is good for the most part but there were moments where the writing style turned to boring or uninteresting at times, which made some sections of this book really tortures to read. Because of the have topics it talked about and the hard writing style.

I Give This Book 3 / 5