“The Tower of the Swallow” By Andrzej Sapkowski Review

The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous. There is only one place left to run. The tower of the swallow is waiting.

To be fully honest here, in my opinion this book was the best book in this series so far but I still have 2 more books in this series to read so a lot can happen.

The plot here was very slow but at the same time very interesting. There isn’t a lot of adventure or sword fights in this book but it still finds a way to keep us as readers engaged in it and find it interesting.

The characters here are just wow. You can really see the character development and the character change which happened to all characters between this book and the previous book before this one. We also get to know what happened to Ciri between the actions of the previous books and this one. Which in my opinion only adds more to this book and the character itself.

However surprisingly we get every little of Yenefer. Which I personally find to enjoy because I am not a fan of her. But I came to like her in this book which a big surprise to me.

The plot in this book is really about family, friendship, love and loyalty which is a huge surprised when it comes to a Witcher book but at the same time also a very positive surprise. 

The writing style here somehow gets better than from the previous book. I don’t know how it happened but it did and I love to see Andrzej Sapkowski become better author and to see Witcher series becoming better.

The ending in this book is a really big cliff-hanger and the moment I finished this book I couldn’t stop myself from immediately start on the next book in this series to find out what happens next.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Ready Player One” By Ernest Cline Review

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.  But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.

This book is a mix between SCI-FI, YA and dystopia book and all of the events takes place in 2044. 

I read this book in two sittings. It is short but it is very addictive and you will have hard time putting this book down. Which really means how good book this is. 

The plot in this book is amazing. It is about a virtual game and a dystopia world which really in this book is an amazing mix. The plot have many layers to it, which really proves that it is one of the best Sci-Fi books every written in my opinion at least. 

This book really spoke to the gamer part of me, and it really made me want that something like the Oasis existed in real life. This book fully awaken the nerd in me and that’s why I loved this book so much as I did. 

There are very few characters in this book. But all of them are very good and they all feel like real human beings which I personally love when it happens in books. 

The characters are easy to see through and see who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. And there is the battle between good and bad like in every Sci-Fi book but when it comes to this book I don’t mind it. 

The writing style here is amazing. The language in this book is very easy. 

The ending here is a little bit confusing if you ask me. But it is still very good and it really is the ending we truly deserved in this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“After” By Anna Todd Review

Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to. But he’s also rude—to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does—until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she’s never known before. 

I am very surprised over the fact how much I love this book. There is really something about it which made me love this book. 

The size of this book have animated me before I started reading it. Because this book has around 580 pages depending on what version of this book you get. Which really makes it to a big book. However after reading this book, I was left with the feeling that this book was too short. 

The plot in this book is very unique but at the same time very generic in a way. But I loved it. There is something very unique about the plot in this book. The best way to describe it is the plot in this book uses the generic plot for YA and romance and then presents us it in a very unique way.

The main characters in this book are Tessa and Hardin. And to be honest they both are super relatable however they are the polar opposites of each other. Tessa is the ultimate good girl and Hardin is the ultimate bad boy. And the process of seeing them change each other slowly really makes this whole book so much better.

The side characters are also so incredible, because they feel like real human beings with their unique personalities and something which set them apart from each other. 

The writing style here so incredible, its almost like the author knows what words to use to fully grab you and not let you go until you finish the book. Which I personally love when it happens. Because it feels like the author tells the story just for you to like it.

The most annoying thing about this book for me personally, was the huge cliffhanger this book leaves us with. After I finished this book I was angry in a way that it would leave us with the biggest cliffhanger ever, but at the same time it made me want to grab the second book in this series to find out what will happen next. 

To be honest that’s my whole dynamics with this book, I hate it but at the same time I love it.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Cinderella Is Dead” By Kalynn Bayron Review

It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all–and in the process, they learn that there’s more to Cinderella’s story than they ever knew.

I had really low expectations for this book, to be fully honest I expected to not like this book but after reading it I came to love this book. 

This book is a retailing of the cinderella fairy tale which everyone gets to hear many times during childhood. This book takes the cinderella fairy tale and puts it in a very dark places but in a very enjoyable way. 

This book shows us that believing in something too much can be a bad thing and that it can makes us super blind. But also this book shows us that a hero role isn’t only for men but also for women. 

The descriptions in this book are amazing, and they put a very clear picture in your mind. 

There is corruption, money and power using which really seems like real life situation due to the politicians now on days.

The world in this book is amazing, it has the fairy tale feeling to it but at the same time it feels like it is a real life place.

The characters in this book are amazing, they feel like real human beings. Because they are super relatable, and we can relate to their feelings because we all been in situations where it seems that what we want to do is impossible. 

The characters might have some lame and cheezy moments here and there, which really made it awkward at times. 

The writing style in this book is amazing, its very easy at the same time it was like the author knew what words to use to fully crab your attention and make you read for hours.

The ending has a huge twist to it, which really wasn’t expected. Which really make this book so much better. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future” By Peter Thiel Review

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. 

To be fully honest I wanted to read this book for couple of years now, and I finally got the chance to do so. And after reading this book, I couldn’t help myself to put it as one of my favourite business books. 

This book is very enjoyable, interesting, knowledgeable and very easy to read. I read it one sitting which shows that its a really quick read. 

You will learn a lot from it. However some of the things might not go 100% with you but you will still learn at least something. 

The author gives us many good insights like “A great founder can bring out the best work from everybody at his company. But also many more which will make you think about a think or two. 

The writing style is very simple, which means that everyone will understand it. No matter if its a 15-year-old reading this book or a 60-year-old. The language is very easy, and it also has a lot of diagrams.

This book isn’t only a “how-to start a start-up” but this book also tells us how to survive the start-up phase of your company and make it one of the biggest companies in the world.

Even if you aren’t planning to start a company or a start-up this book is still worth reading, because it gives us insight on how companies like Apple, Google and Amazon went from small companies which no one really knew to being the biggest companies in the world.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Dark Force Rising” By Timothy Zahn Review

The dying Empire’s most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic’s destruction. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council—only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.

I need to be honest and admit that this book is one of the best star wars books I’ve read so far.

This book is very interesting, intriguing, engaging and a page turner. This book has around 450 pages (depends on what version of this book you get) but I’ve read it in less than a day. 

If you never read any star wars book before, then this book might not be for you because we get new characters and there will be a lot to take in.

The plot in this book is amazing. There is a lot of action and the author just knows how to keep you at the edge of your chair. While you read this book you just can’t stop reading because you want to learn more about what happens next.

However at times the plot can be one centred about something, but it didn’t bother me that much. Because for me it made this book better at times.

The characters in this book are amazing. The OG characters like Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca are even better in this book than in the movies. Because we get to learn more about them which the movies didn’t show us. And we get to know them more personally and we get to see what happens to them after the movies.

When it comes to Grand Admiral Thrawn, this book fully shows why he deserves a much bigger hype than he has. because he is extremely efficient and mastermind on military tactician.

The writing style in this book is amazing, because it feels like the author knows what words to use to crab your full attention and not let it go until you finish this book. Which I love when this happens because it takes a really good author to accomplish that. 

This book also gives us the star wars nostalgia for us who grow up watching star wars movies. Because it has the same feeling as the original trilogy had, and it also keeps us waiting on what will happen next just as the original trilogy.

We get a lot of perspectives in this book. We get to follow Luke, Han, Leia and Mara. Because of this we get to know the story though different perspectives which in so big universes as star wars is always a good thing to have.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Heir to the Empire” By Timothy Zahn Review

It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire. But with the war seemingly won, strains are beginning to show in the Rebel Alliance. New challenges to galactic peace have arisen. And Luke Skywalker hears a voice from his past. A voice with a warning. Beware the dark side. The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet back into barely a quarter of the territory that they once controlled. Leia and Han are married, are expecting Jedi twins, and have shouldered heavy burdens in the government of the new Republic. And Luke Skywalker is the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights.

This book have totally blown my mind because it was so fucking good. And I gotta say that is the best book to start your Star Wars book journey if you haven’t read any star wars books. 

If you have seen the original trilogy which was realised in the late 70s and early 80s you should be able to pin up this book without being confused on what is happening in this book.

In this book we get the OG characters which get even better than the movies because we get to learn more about them and we get to follow their adventures after the original trilogy. 

We get also introduced to some new characters like Mara Jade which is one of my favourite characters from the star wars books because of her journey from the dark side to being an Jedi.

Overall we get amazing and strong characters. And all of them have something unique to them which I love when it happens. 

The plot here is just wow. It is super amazing and I couldn’t pull myself away from the book. There is so much action here and we get a lot of our OG characters in this book which I’ve loved. 

The writing style here is complete amazing. It felt like it was written by George Lucas but of course it wasn’t. I need to give the author extra points for making this book feel like the original trilogy and not like trash which Disney is turning star wars to. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Star Wars: The Mandalorian Junior Novel” By Joe Schreiber Review

After the fall of the Empire but before the emergence of the First Order, a lone bounty hunter known as The Mandalorian travels the outer reaches of the galaxy. When his newest bounty hunting target turns out to be a small Child, the Mandalorian decides the Child must be protected at all costs. Relive all the excitement of the first season of the smash-hit streaming series in this action-packed junior novel by Joe Schreiber! Includes an insert of color photos from the show!

If you love The Mandalorian series as much as I do than you will love this book as well. This book is the novelisations of the first season of the series. 

This book is very quick to read, it’s interesting, its enjoyable and so much more. This book is as well a very easy read because this book is meant for kids between the ages of 9 and 12 if I remember correctly. But the age doesn’t matter as long as you are a star wars fan as I am.

The plot here is the same as in season one of The Mandalorian. Some moments from the series aren’t in the book, but the plot itself is there in this book. Because of some moments from the show aren’t here in the book it makes this book a little less fun than the show but still it is worth the time and money.

The characters here are the same as in The Mandalorian series. But to be honest the characters are better done in the show than in this book but I still loved the characters and their development during the book. 

However there are couple of moments here and there where this book gives us a little extra insight into the characters as it goes on. There aren’t a lots of these moments but they are there.

The writing style in this book is very easy and simple as I’ve mentioned above. Because it was meant for the younger readers of the franchise. But it is good if you want to turn of your brain and do something fun while relaxing after a difficult day.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“The End” By Lemony Snicket Review

The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end. You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. 

Here we are, at the moment which I’ve dreaded which of course is the last book in the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series.

I need to say that this book have disappointed me a lot because the ending we got for the entire series wasn’t good enough. After reading 13 books in 2 weeks I was expecting something more than what we actually got.

However this book have illumined some aspects which we were waiting to get since the beginning. Which in a way made me love this book a lot. 

The action in this book takes place on an island in the middle of nowhere. Which was a place which was very good for the ending of this fantastic series.

The fate which Count Olaf got, really disappointed me because I was expecting something worse happen to him. But still it was good enough of a fate I suppose.

The characters here, you can truly see how much Violet, Klaus and Sunny have changed since book one in this series.

The character development in this book was huge, and it might be the reason why I loved this book so much.

To be fully honest here this book is strange, because it was good but at the same time it felt like there was something missing in it.

But also not knowing what happens to Violet, Klaus and Sunny after this book, really kills me in a way.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“The Penultimate Peril” By Lemony Snicket Review

Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness.

This book is the 12th book in the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series. Which really makes me sad because it means that there is only one book left in this series. 

The action in this book is very very very high. There is a lot of happening. Because all the bad people Violet, Klaus and Sunny met since book one makes an return in this book. And oh boy, this book does really hit another level of sadness. 

Violet, Klaus and Sunny has to join forces with Count Olaf to escape the hotel which this book takes place. Because there is an angry mob after Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Count Olaf. 

Count Olaf in this book break up with Esmé Squalor and he leaves behind her and that little brat Carmelita Spats. Let’s hope that we won’t see these two insufferable characters in the last book in this amazing series. 

In this book the plot is very thick and heavy. Because finally in this book Violet, Klaus and Sunny mets someone from the VFD and they are even put to do a special mission for them to take down Count Olaf. But of course as you might expect the mission doesn’t go along the plan. 

Violet, Klas and Sunny feels like an adult even thou 2 of them are teens and Sunny is a baby. That’s just shows the character development and all the things they have been through since the first book. 

To be fully honest here, this book is the most complex book in this series so far. And I need to say that this book might be my favourite book in this series but we still have one book to go in this series so a lot of things might change in that time.

I Give This Book 5 / 5