“Toast za odważnych” By Magdalena Jędrysek Review

Valentina Moreau, nastoletnia Francuzka, trafia do elitarnej akademii na obrzeżach Londynu. W szkole panują nietypowe zasady, nastolatkowie nie mają dostępu do elektroniki, uczą się z dala od świata zewnętrznego. Valentina szybko odkrywa, że coś niepokojącego czai się za murami tej prestiżowej szkoły. Gdy w Londynie dochodzi do tajemniczych morderstw, Valentina i jej nowi przyjaciele postanawiają rozwikłać zagadkę. Im więcej wiedzą, tym większe niebezpieczeństwo im grozi. Czy ich życie może być stawką w tej grze? Kto stoi za morderstwami? Dyrektor akademii? Jeden z uczniów? A może ktoś, kto do tej pory stał w cieniu?

Before we start this review I need to admit that at the time of writing this review this book is only available in polish. So keep that in mind and for those of you who are new readers on this website, yes I am from Poland if you didn’t know that which now you do.

Before reading this book I was very skeptical about it. Because I expected this book to be one of those thriller young adult books where the author tries way too hard for my picky taste in books. But now that I have read this book, I gotta admit that this book is probably the best young adult book I have read last year (2025). 

From the very first page of this book, I was completely hooked into the plot of this book. Which really shows how good the plot of this book. There was a lot of tension and drama in this book which I really liked in this book. 

The plot of this book was very relatable, interesting, enjoyable and fun. I find the plot to be very harry potter like. Because I found the plot of starting a new high school in a different country and making new friends and solving crimes to be very cozy and fun.

The characters in this book, are very good and amazing. Because the ever single character in this book feels like a real human beings. Every character in this book have their own personalities and their own quirks which makes them standout from the rest of the characters. I would personally have no problems becoming good friends with the characters in this book.

The writing style in this book is very good, because it was like the author knew exactly what words to use to completely grab my attention and interested and not let it go until the very end of this book. At the same time the writing style seemed like a young adult mixed with thriller writing style. Which made me give this book some extra points solely for the good writing style.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Revan” By Drew Karpyshyn Review

Revan: hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that’s left are nightmares and deep, abiding fear.

This book has to be easily in the top 5 books I have read last year. Which says a lot to me personally looking at the fact of how many books and comic books I have read last year. If you want me to make a top 10 list of the worst and best books / comic books I have read last year, let me know in then comments.

The story of this book is very interesting and enjoyable for me personally. From the very beginning to the very end of this book I was completely hooked into the plot of this book. 

At the same time the plot of this book really shows to me at least that Revan is one of the most underrated and unexplored characters in the star wars universe. Which I really want to see much more of.

But I do need to admit here that I had one disappointed when it comes to the plot of this book. Which is that Raven is a complete badass (in my opinion of course) and he didn’t do a lot of fighting in this book which in a way had disappointed me. But not enough to give this book a lower rating than 5 out of 5 stars because I completely loved this book.

The biggest thing I liked about this book is the back story of the Sith Emperor and his back story we get in this book. Which I completely loved and desperately wanted to know more about for a very long time now. And this book have put me out of my misery and given me what I wanted for a very long time now.

At the same time this book has a plot twist at the very end of this book, which in a way made me loved this book so much more. Because I personally never saw it coming which just shows how well this book was written. 

This book was my first star wars book written by Drew Karpyshyn which I have read. And I gotta admit here that Drew Karpyshyn is very close to becoming my favorite star wars author if his other star wars books are just as good as this one. 

The characters in this book are completely amazing. I completely fell in love with all of the characters in this book. Because they were so very well written and they had a lot of personalities to them and personal quirks which made them standout from the rest of the characters in this book. In a way all of the characters in this book felt like real life human beings which I would have no problem becoming best friends with. 

At the same time, this book also offers us a kind of origin story of Scourge who is the Sith Lord of the reconstituted Sith Empire and later as the Emperor’s Wrath in the star wars universe and timeline. I wanted to know more about him as well for a sometime time now. Which made me love this book so much more since this book gives us Scourge’s backstory of how he got to the power. And I gotta admit that this book got me so interested in Scourge that I desperately need to find more star wars books that have Scourge in them because I want to learn more about him.

The writing style in this book is completely amazing. Because it was like the author knew exactly what words to use to completely grab my attention and not let it go until the very end of this book. At the same time the writing style made this whole book so much better because the writing style goes straight to business in this book and delivers the action and drama I wanted to get from this book.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight” By Kalynn Bayron Review

Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity’s co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity’s role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they’ll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

The reason why I read this book is because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book and I have already read 2 books by the author which I had really liked. But after trying to read this book I gotta admit that this book was very painfully cringey to read and I just needed to DNF this book or I would never pick up any other book if I had completed this book.

The plot of this book is very slow and I just couldn’t find anything in the plot which would interested me enough to keep reading. The first 50 or so pages of this book is just scenes skipping between each other and the councilors talking about the final slasher simulation of the summer. Which really made me bored and uninterested because the plot in the first half was just the councilors walking around the property, talking and checking on props they were using in their simulation.

The plot would also gives us the glimpses of the woke political views, like police not carrying about black people and only being concerned about the safety of white people. Which really was the final straw for me to make my mind about DNF-ing this book. Because I personally hate it when authors use their fictional books to shove their political views down the readers throats. Im completely fine with the authors having their own political views but if the author is writing a fictional book then they shouldn’t fill the book with their real life political views.

At the same time the plot in this book is so much cringey and it plays on the slasher movie theme stereotypes. Where the main character constantly says “I cant die since I’m the final girl in the simulation”. Which didn’t help me liking this book and giving this book a good review. 

The writing style in this book, honestly felt like it was generated by chatGPT or some other AI chat. Because the entire writing style in this book was like “this happened, then this happened, then that happened, and lastly this happened” which made it seem to me like it was written by AI or the author just didn’t bother with this book and she just needed a quick paycheck.

The characters in this book were very annoying and shallow. The main character in this book would constantly say “I’m black and I’m gay” which made me annoyed and frustrated because like I get it that the main character is black and gay but the author doesn’t have to rub it in and remind me of it every 2 pages or so. It was almost like the main character’s whole personality was that she was black and gay.

All the characters in this book are very shallow and have no personalities to them besides their personalities being all about their looks and their sexuality. Which made me want to buy out every copy of this book and burn them to the ground.

This book gotta be easily my most hated book I have read so far in my life and that saying something looking at the fact of how many books I have read and reviewed on this website.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Dark Disciple” By Christie Golden Review

In the war for control of the galaxy between the armies of the dark side and the Republic, former Jedi Master turned ruthless Sith Lord Count Dooku has grown ever more brutal in his tactics. Despite the powers of the Jedi and the military prowess of their clone army, the sheer number of fatalities is taking a terrible toll. And when Dooku orders the massacre of a flotilla of helpless refugees, the Jedi Council feels it has no choice but to take drastic action: targeting the man responsible for so many war atrocities, Count Dooku himself.

I gotta admit that this book was a very average star wars book, not the worst nor the best I have read from the star wars category of books.

This book takes place during the clone wars tv show timeline. And the clone wars is easily my favorite star wars show ever created. Which means I had some high hopes for this book which unfortunately this book didn’t live up to the hopes and expectations I had for this book.

The plot in this book is kind of all over the place and some of the Jedi council members act very out of character. Like Master Yoda sending people to kill count Dooku. Which gave me mixed feelings because the whole theme of being a Jedi is not killing people like the Sith Lords do. 

And the person who gets the tasks to kill count Dooku was no other than Quinlan Vos. Which in my opinion is one of the most underrated characters we should see more of in the star wars universe.

I personally have mixed feelings about the plot of this book, because there were times where this book would drag a bit which would make me bored and uninterested at times which is never a good thing. And to be very honest here I feel like the plot wasn’t as interesting as it could have been if the author of this book would have use a different approach or different perspective in this book.

The characters in this book, all over the place. Because we do get most well known characters in this book like Yoda, Dooku, Obi-Wan and Anakin amongst other but we also get some new characters or characters that we didn’t spend a lot of time with in movies or the star wars books I have read so far in my life.

To be honest I wished that we would get more time in this book with Quinlan Vos or the less known or new characters in this book. But I cant complain about the characters in this book because I still loved them in this book and think they were as good as always in this book.

The writing style in this book is easily the weakest point of this book. Because the writing style didn’t feel like star wars book but rather a young adult fantasy writing style which for me was weird for me personally. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“George Lucas: A Life” By Brian Jay Jones Review

On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George Lucas, the movie originally called The Star Wars quickly drew blocks-long lines, bursting box-office records and ushering in a new way for movies to be made, marketed, and merchandised. It is now one of the most adored-and successful-movie franchises of all time. Now, the author of the bestselling biography Jim Henson delivers a long-awaited, revelatory look into the life and times of the man who created Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Indiana Jones. If Star Wars wasn’t game-changing enough, Lucas went on to create another blockbuster series with Indiana Jones, and he completely transformed the world of special effects and the way movies sound. His innovation and ambition forged Pixar and Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and THX sound.

I need to admit here that I wanted to read this book for a while now, since as many of you guys who are frequent readers on this website might know is that am a huge star wars fan. So when I found out that this book was published I put it on my TBR list and now I have finally read it.

I really liked this book since the author of this book tries really hard to make George Lucas seem sympathetic at every stage of his life even thou George Lucas might not be the sympathetic person ever. Even thou at times George Lucas appears in this book to prefer spending time working rather than with his family or other people for that matter.

The thing that I liked a lot about this book is that this book contains a lot of behind the scenes information and fun facts about star wars movies and Indiana jones movies George Lucas created.

The writing style of this book is very good and easily my favorite part of this book. I have read a lot of biographies in my time on this website, and I gotta admit that a lot of biographies I have read so far have the most boring and text book like writing style. But this book on the other hand makes reading this biography fun and interesting. 

The only reason why I gave this book a 3 star rating is because I think that this book was entirely too long and I’m not that big of a fan of long biographies since I tend to get bored quickly of them.

But at the same time this book gives us a good explanation of George Lucas life and career. Which I really liked because I love star wars ever since I was 6 or 7 years old and watched star wars for the first time. I personally think that George Lucas is easily one of the greatest movie maker of all time.

The majority of this book talks about the star wars era of George Lucas’s life and we get a few glimpses of George Lucas’s life outside of being the creator of star wars like his divorces from his wife and childhood.

As you may have seen from this review so far, is that I have pretty mixed feelings about it. Because on one side I liked this book but on the second side I didn’t like this book. And I just can make up my mind on if I should write a positive or negative review of this book and I want to be as honest and forward coming as possible in every review I write on this website.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“80/20 Daily: Your Day-by-Day Guide to Happier, Healthier, and More Successful Living Using the 8020 Principle” By Richard Koch Review

From the bestselling author of The 80/20 Principle, a book of daily advice to help you live better for less effort In The 80/20 Daily, Richard Koch draws on insights from a life devoted to living the 80/20 way to create a day-by-day guide to successful living. Every day he shares insights and meditations on achieving success and cultivating intelligent laziness, themed by topic and covering all the big questions from happiness and self-belief, to relationships and money. As you go through the year, you’ll discover that in all these areas, very few inputs are decisive in delivering results, leaving you more time to get on with doing what you love.The 80/20 Daily is the first thing you’ll turn to when you wake up to discover new ways to become happier, better off, less stressed and more successful.

I gotta admit that I have had a lot of expectations and hopes for this book since I have heard a lot of good things about this book. But after reading it I gotta admit that this book doesn’t live up to all the good things I have heard about this book. But as always I will explain everything in this review so if you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book then keep reading. 

First of all its important to say that this book gives us one short lesson for each 365 days to make our lives better. But those advice we get in this book seem very generic you would hear from every fake and sketchy “self-help guru”on the internet who only tries to sell you their course to make themselves rich and not improve your own life. 

Those advice we do get in this book are so generic that at times I felt like I was reading a ChatGPT advice on how to improve ones live. Which is the main reason why I hate this book as much as I do. 

This book is all about the “80/20 principle / rule” which I never heard about. And this  book just assumes that anyone who has ever read even one self-help book have heard of it and just doesn’t bother explaining what it is. Which is my second big issue with this book. I feel like this book would have been so much better if the author have taken the time to explain the “80/20 principle / rule”. But in the end in didn’t which I wouldn’t recommend. Because if the author wants me to buy this book and read it then he better explain everything he is talking about in this book without me needing to google what it is and spend time on it.

The writing style in this book is very generic and again feels like it was written by ChatGPT or some other AI assistant / chatbot. I felt like the author just didn’t bother to present this book is a good light as much as the author was concerned about getting the paycheck for publishing this book.

If you are looking for a good self-help book, then this book isn’t the choice. This book is in fact so far away from being anywhere “good” like comparing water to a book. Which isn’t even close. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Tutaj mieszka zło” By Sonia Rosa Review

Przed laty, w pięknym dworku nad jeziorem, doszło do niewyobrażalnej tragedii ogarnięta psychozą poporodową młoda matka zamordowała dwójkę swoich dzieci. Obecnie posiadłość należy do małżeństwa, które kupiło ją za bezcen. Wyremontowany przez parę dom prezentuje się zjawiskowo, ale czy pod dachem, pod którym wydarzyła się tak krwawa zbrodnia, można odnaleźć szczęście? Marta, nowa właścicielka dworku, nocami słyszy głosy zmarłych dzieci – płacz niemowlęcia i śmiech kilkuletniej dziewczynki. Z czasem udaje jej się odzyskać równowagę emocjonalną, ale wtedy dzieje się coś, co rodzi kolejne problemy – do dworku wprowadza się siostra męża Marty, Izabela. Kobiety nigdy się nie dogadywały, a obecność szwagierki jest dla Marty wyjątkowo trudna. Za zamkniętymi drzwiami wybuchają kłótnie, szczęśliwe małżeństwo przechodzi pierwszy poważny kryzys, ale to dopiero początek koszmaru. Klątwa dworku uderza z niszczycielską siłą i po raz kolejny dochodzi tu do zbrodni. Kto jest katem, a kto ofiarą?

At the time of writing this review this book is only available in polish so keep that in mind. But without making this intro longer lets jumps straight into the review of this book.

I had some high hopes and expectations for this book because the casher at the bookstore I bought this book at told me that this book was very scary and creepy. But after reading this book (or rather trying to read this book I should say) I have realized that the casher have bull shit-ed me. Because this book isn’t scary and it isn’t good.

The plot in this book is just a pure family drama show and not a horror book I have expected from this book would be. The main character and her sister-in-law hate each other and this whole book is them arguing with each other or talking shit about each other to other people. 

But at the same time the plot of this book is written in such a way that we as readers expect something happen (the generic horror setup) any second in this book. Which was the only reason why I got 200 pages into this book before DNF-ing it as I realized nothing scary would happen in this book beside the sister-in-law and the main character being very annoying and acting like little toddlers with their tantrums.

The characters in this book as you my expected from what I have said above are very very annoying for me personally. Because as I’ve said above the main character and her sister-in-law are constantly acting like little toddlers throwing tantrums all the time in this book. Both of those characters have really really annoyed and irritated me personally to such an extent that they have won my reward for being the most irritating and most frustrating characters in any book I have read so far in my life.

When it comes to the other characters in this book I gotta admit that they were just as annoying as the main character and the sister-in-law in this book. The husband of the main character in this book is way too forgiving to his sister which really really made me pissed off at him. Like his sister would get very often blackout drunk and all he would say about it was something like “oh well, she was just trying to relax”. During this book something very serious happens with the sister-in-law where a guy she was partying with tried to rape her and she intentionally pushed him down the stairs and he died. And instead of calling the police and ambulance she waited for her brother (aka the husband) to come help her hide the body and all the brother said about it was “oh well, it was his fault for falling down the stairs”. The sister-in-law could do nothing wrong in the husband’s eyes because she was his little sister no matter how many fuck-ups she did. Which really made me want to throw this book into an active fireplace. 

The writing style in this book isn’t any better than the plot and the characters in this book because its just as bad. It was so bad that I don’t even have words to describe the writing style and how bad it is. It almost feels like it was written by a mix of ChatGPT and a teenager who really hated her boyfriend’s sister for no good reason. 

There is also a handful of contradictions in this book. Where the other have written that the main character and her husband went to a “polish restaurant” and 2 pages later it changed to “Italian restaurant” even thou the characters were still in the same restaurant. Which really made it confusing for me because this book would a handful of times contradict itself like there author couldn’t remember what she has written 2 pages earlier.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Dungeons and Drama” By Kristy Boyce Review

Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop. Riley can’t waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous. But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan’s Dungeons & Dragons game…or that role playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn’t require as much acting as she would’ve thought.

I gotta admit that I didn’t have a lot of expectations of this book because I had a lot of mixed feelings about this book before reading this one. But after reading this book I gotta admit that it isn’t half bad.

The plot of this book is very cute and sweat which made me like this book a little bit. But at the same time the plot of this book is very generic YA plot. 

There was a huge thing that annoyed me a lot in this book. Which is that main character in this book is a teenager girl who is obsessed with with musicals and theater plays. So she and her friend steals her mom’s car and drives to the neighboring state to watch some theater play while she didn’t have a driving license. And when her parents learn about their daughter without a license stealing their car with a friend only gives their daughter 7 weeks of her needing to work for free in her dad’s board games store.

This aspect of this book made me think that me think that that the author of this book had no idea how serious it is when a teenager without a car license stealing a car really is.

But other than that I gotta admit that this book is kinda cute and fun to read. Even thou it is very generic to the YA book category. I gotta admit that this book hasn’t worked on me beside being a quick book to read because of how simple and easy going it was.

The characters in this book are all over the place in this book. I found Nathan being a very good character but Riley on hand was very annoying for me personally because her entire personality was about theater and being overall a rich kid who done what she wanted. And for characters and people like Riley all I have is pure hate because I find them to be very very annoying.

While reading this book I gotta admit that I had few moments where I wanted to DNF this book just because of how annoying I found Riley to be. But I pushed through it and I am kinda happy that I have finished this book. 

This book had a lot of potential to be a very good book if Riley wasn’t so annoying a acting all the time as a spoiled rich kid who was just playing on my nervous all the time I was reading this book. Which makes it safe for me to say that I wasn’t a fan of Riley even thou I loved the rest of the characters in this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Never Flinch” By Stephen King Review

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.

I gotta admit here that this book is easily a much better book than the books Stephen King has been writing since the 80s in my opinion. But this book in my opinion is a long way away from being a good Stephen king book. But as always I will explain everything in this review, so if you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book then keep reading.

The plot in this book was split into 2 separate perspectives. Since this book involves a stalker who wants to murder an pro-choice activist which Holly was hired to be a bodyguard of, and the second part is a serial killer murdering innocent people because of a innocent guy being sentence for something he didn’t do and then being killed in the prison by an another inmate.  

I personally think that this book would have done so much better if the plot of this book was split into 2 books in the Holly Gibney series rather than shoving everything into one book. Because in my opinion there was too much action happening and following 2 cases being solved by holly at the same time was kind of confusing for me personally.  

The action in this book takes very long time to get to a suspense and tension level in this book, and I personally think that it would have done a much better job at being shorter and getting straight into action rather than focus on some police versus firefighters baseball match, Barbara becoming besties with a old gospel singer and all the rest of events which have taken place in this book which only became convenient for the Stephen King to use at the very end of this book. Since it seemed like he had no ideas how to write the ending of this book.

The characters in this book were very good. Which didn’t surprise me because Stephen King knows his stuff when it comes to creating good and relatable characters in his book. Which is one of the main reasons why I am such a huge fan of Stephen King’s books. 

One of the things which annoyed me in this book beside the plot which I already talked about above, is the thing that Holly doesn’t solve much cases in this book. Because all the breakthroughs she makes in this book is guessing and letting Jerome do the research and come back to her with the stuff he found out. Stephen king could easily take Holly out of this book and it wouldn’t change a thing in this book because of how small role Holly plays in this book.

The writing style in this book is very on point in this book. Because the writing style in this book is very good and it had completely grabbed my attention from the very moment I started reading this book. Which hasn’t surprised me at all looking at the fact that Stephen King has written this book.

The ending of this book is okay for the most part, there wasn’t a big standoff between holly and the main villain of this book. The ending itself felt like Stephen king wanted to be as quickly done with this book as possible.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Side Hustle: How to Turn Your Spare Time into $1000 a Month or More” By Nick Loper Review

Make Money and Live Completely Updated and Revised! Important The reviews dated before 2019 are for a previous version of the book that was not nearly as strong as the current edition. I took that feedback, bulldozed most of the content, and rebuilt it from the ground up. The Side Hustle is for people who want or need to earn some extra money outside of their day jobs. Maybe you need a few extra dollars to make ends meet. Maybe you want to pay off debt. Maybe you want to save for a rainy day or for your children’s education.

I need to admit here that this book is one of the worse business books I have read in my time. And of course I will explain everything in this review so if you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book then keep reading my dear reader.

So this book is meant to be as a side hustle inspiration where it gives us ideas about side hustles we should start on our own to earn a few extra bucks each month. Which I really appreciated the idea of this book but at the same time the ideas which this book tries to give us are so overused on the internet. Because the author goes with drop shipping, affiliate marketing and overall all the other generic side hustles you have seen on the internet a dozen or more times. 

At the same time the author of this book makes starting a side hustle seem very easy and simple like even a 10 year old cold do it. But in reality its pretty harder than saying “you can do it” and overnight you are earning a lot of cash each month. Which had put me off at times because of how easy the author made starting a side hustle seem.

I gotta say that this book doesn’t bring anything new to the table for people who wants to start a side hustle. Because as I’ve said above all the side hustle ideas this book gives us are very overused and very generic. Because each of the side hustle listed in this book are what the majority of influencers do like affiliate marketing, starting a business on shopify etc.

The writing style of this book is very simple and east going. Which made this book quick to read and at times find enjoyable. 

After reading this book I gotta say that this book isn’t worth buying because all the things this book talks about can be found on the internet for free. And the reason why I have this book and read it is because at the time I got this book it was free for the kindle and thats how I got my hands on this book.

I Give This Book 2 / 5