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“Pride and Prejudice” By Jane Austen Review

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Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen’s radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

I gotta say that this book was okay. I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book but it still disappointed me in a way because I wanted to like much more this book than I’ve did after reading it. 

The plot here is again too much about romance in a way, which I personally aren’t the biggest fan of. But if we look away from the romances in this book than I found myself enjoying the plot in this book a lot and I found it to be interesting and enjoyable read overall. 

This book is mostly a character study of 19th century England and of its societies, courtships etc. I am a big fan of that part of this book because I found it super interesting. 

The characters here was likeable, and I liked them a lot. There were couple of times were I was annoyed with the characters but still I’ve liked them. The moment were one of the female characters rejected a man’s proposal but then she found out that he is rich and he instantly changed her mind made me literally throw the book across the room. Talking about an 19th century gold digger. 

There were couple of moments in this book which were really boring and I wanted to DNF this book. But I struggled through them and I found myself with positive feedback for this book. Of course  not all polite as you might have seen above but still I gave it a high rating.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Warriors of the Storm” By Bernard Cornwell Review

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The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series The Saxon Tales, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. A fragile peace governs the kingdoms of Wessex, East Anglia, under the rule of the late King Alfred’s son, King Edward, and Mercia, under his daughter Aethelflaed. Uhtred, her formidable champion and greatest warrior, controls the northern parts from the strongly fortified city of Chester. But no one can prepare them for the storm that is about to descend. The Northmen, allied to the Irish, come in force under the cover of night, up the Mersey, perhaps to attack Chester, perhaps to rage and pillage through Mercia, perhaps to take the troubled kingdom of Northumbria. They are led by the terrifying Viking warrior, Ragnall Iverson, a fierce fighter and ruthless leader.

This book is the 9th book in the “The Last Kingdom” book series. And it is also my first book in this series. Which is a very bad place to start a book with. To be fully honest I got this book as an gift last year I think and I wanted to read this book to see if I would like the series before I would buy the rest of this series. And I love this book and this series so far. 

The plot of this book is amazing and really give me like the biggest Vikings vibe even thou it is a little bit different. But it gave me a deja vu to when I first started watching Vikings. Which really made me love this book even more. 

The writing style here was amazing, it was very close to being a masterpiece. It lacked couple of things here and there but it was still amazing and super good. 

The characters here also reminded me of vikings in a way. Of course they felt like a poor version of the characters from vikings but still as it being a whole different series I just loved them. Ever character here had something to them and it really felt like real people from that era. 

There were couple of funny moments here and there in this book. But for the most part this book will keep you on edge and keep you interested from the beginning to the end. 

This book have some ruthless and gory scenes here and there so if you might get triggered by it I would recommend to not read it. But for me personally these ruthless and gory scenes made it more fun to read this book because you can’t tell a viking story without the violence.  

The hatred, the battle and the drama between the Danes and Christians was really amazing here and it really made this book so much better because it added a mode to the book. 

The ending here is also very good but there was a cliffhanger there which really made me pissed off because I hate when it happens. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Paradoks” By Artur Urbanowicz Review

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What do you think – are you the best version of yourself? The best you can afford…?Maks Okrągły “Square” is the best math student in the department and a morbid perfectionist. His mind, imbued with the queen of science, has switched to extreme efficiency – the boy learns faster, does more and achieves better results than his peers. However, this situation has its dark side – Maks subconsciously despises other people and treats them in advance. Paradoxically, however, he most despises… himself – especially when he makes a mistake that, in his opinion, is unbecoming of him, and he feels powerful anger about it. Sometimes it takes extreme forms – Maks inflicts increasingly severe punishment on himself through self-mutilation and is tormented by paranoid thoughts interspersed with terrifying visions – including that he is being stalked by his doppelgänger who hates him and wants to kill him. However, he does not know that the real nightmare is just coming and he will find out for himself the literalness of the saying “Better is the enemy of good”. Has Max’s doppelgänger, the epitome of his obsession with perfection, really ceased to be just a hallucination of a tormented mind?

At the time of writing of this review this book is only available in polish. 

I gotta say that this book started really hot, and it really didn’t fail to grab your attention and your interested. But the last 100 pages of this book really killed off some of the hype which the book was building up to from the first page.

This book is categories in the horror genre, but to be fully honest it rather a mystery book than a horror book. There is one scene in this book which feels like a horror but the rest of this book is rather a mystery investigation.

The characters in this book are very good and it really felt like I would have no problem becoming friends with the characters. The characters here are few of them but they really felt like real human beings in a way because you spend almost 600 pages of getting to know them.

The ending is okay, I expected it to be different but it was super satisfying and the evil might win at the end of this book. Which really made me like the ending.

This book is very good at living in your head when you take break from it. And it really keeps you wondering what will happen next.

Descriptions in this book are very good, and they give you an very good picture in your head. Which I personally love when this happen. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” By William Shakespeare Review

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare

This book is a collection of all of William Shakespeare’s work. To be honest the majority didn’t go well with me but there were very few good once. 

There are 38 plays, 2 long poems and 154 sonnets in this book. I’ve already reviewed each of them separately so if you are interested you can always look back at them.

This book is very good for collector of classic works, but also this book is a good one to have if you want all of William Shakespeare’s work in one place which would look amazing in the bookshelf. 

To be honest after reading this whole book I need to say that maybe William Shakespeare is a little bit overrated because I personally didn’t understand why so many people love William Shakespeare’s work.

I Give Book 4 / 5

“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” By Douglas Adams Review

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Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability – and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.

I gotta say that this book so far is the best book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Somehow this book takes the world and plot from the first book and builds onto it. Because of this we get to see more of the world in this series and we get a better plot in this book. Which I really came to like much more this book than the first book. 

The plot here was very good. Its very unique and its very interesting to read. There was something really intriguing and entertaining about this book. Which really caught my attention and kept me reading to the end.

The characters in this book gets better than they were in the first book. It might be a character development or me taking the time to actually like them. 

However this book has the same problem as the first book had. Which is that the humour was very weak and it didn’t fall in with me.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“This Long Vigil” By Rhett C. Bruno Review

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After twenty five years serving as the lone human Monitor of the Interstellar Ark, Hermes, Orion is scheduled to be placed back in his hibernation chamber with the other members of the crew. Knowing that he will die there and be replaced before the ship’s voyage is over, he decides that he won’t accept that fate. Whatever it takes he will escape Hermes and see space again, even if it means defying the regulations of his only friend — the ship-wide artificial intelligence known as Dan.

I didn’t know anything about this one before getting into this one. Which turns out wasn’t so bad things after all. 

I am not typically a big fan of Sci-fi but this one really surprised me because I came to like it very much. 

The plot in this one was very good, because it was a unique turn on the sci-fi space travel topic which now is very watered down. 

The characters in this one were very good, and I came to like them. They were very few characters in this one. But the once we got really made it up for it.

The writing style here was very simple, almost too simple in my opinion. And that’s pretty much the only bad thing I have to say about this one. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Sense and Sensibility” By Jane Austen Review

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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

After reading this book I fully understand the hype with Jane Austen because this book was amazing and I found myself enjoying this book much more than I’ve expected. 

The plot here is amazing. But I found myself not carrying for the romances in this book. But it was super fun reading this book and seeing where the plot in this book takes us. The plot in this book follows two teenager girls and their romances which I found very boring. 

The writing style was super old school but at the same time very fun and enjoyable. 

The characters here were okay but I wasn’t the biggest fan of all the characters here. I really didn’t care for them but I didn’t mind them at the same time. Which is a weird combination. 

This book would have been one of my favourite books if I didn’t focus so much on romances and the same thing goes to the characters in this book. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” By Newt Scamander / J.K. Rowling Review

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A copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to improving and saving the lives of children around the world, which means that the dollars and Galleons you exchange for it will do magic beyond the powers of any wizard. If you feel that this is insufficient reason to part with your money, I can only hope most sincerel that passing wizards feel more charitable if they ever see you being attacked by a Manticore.

Yet again another amazing book from the Wizarding World, to be honest here I wanted to read this book ever since I’ve read the entire Harry Potter series.

This book is an awesome bonus book for fans of the Wizarding World because it gives us an amazing insight of all the amazing creatures from the Wizarding World which will make the entire universe bigger and will give you more knowledge about all the animals.

The entire in this book was brilliant but the rest of this book was less fun but it still was amazing. To be fully honest here this book would be much better if we got illustration of every creature which this book talked about rather than just some of the animals which made me a little bit disappointed in this book.

But this book needs to get points for being simple but still very fun and enjoyable no matter if you are an adult, teenager or a child you will still have amazing time reading this book. 

The writing style here was simple but still very good. Of course it wasn’t on the level with the Harry Potter books but the writing style in this book was still amazing. 

This book felt like it was written by no other than Newt Scamander because it felt so personal to the character and we really could feel the love which Newt Scamander had towards all animals. 

Every animal came with descriptions of their good and bad side but also what you should keep in mind when you dealing with each animal.

Reading this book felt like you were in Hogwarts and you were getting a very interesting lesson about each of the animals in the Wizarding World rather than reading a book. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” By Robert Louis Stevenson Review

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man’s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde—has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll’s desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul—and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud’s naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson’s enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality’s inner conflicts—and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.

I was very impressed by this book. Because I’ve expected to not like it like most classics but in fact this book is one of the best classic books I’ve read so far.

The plot in this book is a horror book but much rather a thriller / mystery book. Of course there are some murders in this book. But most of the book is about finding the mystery of Mr. Hyde and who he is. The plot itself pretty much reminds me of old timey schizophrenia, but it was super fun to read this book and see what will happen next. 

The characters here are good. Of course there are some characters who I didn’t like but the main character Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde very truly amazing and I loved them which I gave this book some extra points for.

There isn’t so much action here but there is a lot of wondering and mystery which I personally enjoy when it happens. 

The action taken place in old London, which is an amazing setting for any thriller or horror book or movie in my opinion.

The beginning of this books is a police investigation which it intrigued me personally and it really was an amazing start to this book in my personally opinion.

Dr. Jekyll is the good one here and Mr. Hyde is the evil one. And it pretty much shows the good versus the evil. 

The writing style here was amazing, it felt like going back in time and watching this all happen rather reading this book.

The end in this book is just as amazing as the beginning in my opinion. Because the ending includes psychological and philosophical apotheosis with Doctor Jekyll’s journal which explains how it all happened and how doctor Jekyll went to being mr. Hyde.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman” By Alan Rickman Review

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From his breakout role in Die Hard to his outstanding, multifaceted performances in the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more, Alan Rickman cemented his legacy as a world-class actor. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice, and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate audiences today. But Rickman’s ability to breathe life into projects wasn’t confined to just his performances. As you’ll find, Rickman’s diaries detail the extraordinary and the ordinary, flitting between worldly and witty and gossipy, while remaining utterly candid throughout. He takes us inside his home, on trips with friends across the globe, and on the sets of films and plays ranging from Sense and Sensibility, to Noël Coward’s Private Lives, to the final film he directed, A Little Chaos.

This book took me awhile to finish but I finally finished it.

I enjoyed this book a lot but at the same time I feel like this book shouldn’t have been published. Because this book is of all the diaries Alan Rickman had throughout the years. All his thoughts and choppy notes were for himself and he makes some few brutal comments about things and some actors.

Reading this book felt like taking a look at Alan Rickman’s mind throughout the years and during his cancer battle and years. 

It was amazing to learn what he truly thought about some of his acting projects as Harry Potter movies and Die Hard. 

This book and the diaries in this book gives us an amazing look into a very talented mind and his opinions.

Overall this book was super interesting and enjoyable.

I Give This Book 4 / 5