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“Only Santas in the Building” By Alexis Daria Review

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All Evie Cruz wants for Christmas is a nap. And maybe some ornaments for her naked Christmas tree. And while she’s making a list, she wouldn’t mind unwrapping her sexy upstairs neighbor like a present. Luckily, the building’s Santa-themed party and a surprise sprig of mistletoe give her just the opening she needs to make all her wishes come true.

This book has to easily be my favorite book from the “Under The Mistletoe Collection” book series. And I’m gonna explain why in this review of course.

The plot in this book is very sweet and very cozy to read. The plot in this book is actually very interesting, enjoyable and it engages the read to keep reading until the very end. Which in my opinion the previous books in this series didn’t do.

We don’t get a lot of characters in this book but does we get are actually very very good. Which really surprised me because the previous books in this series had meh characters. But this book is actually very different from the previous books in this series but of course different in a good way. The characters in this book very realistic, relatable but also at the same time very cute as for an Christmas book this is 

The female main character has my childhood dream job which gave me the biggest childhood nostalgia and because of a part of myself couldn’t help it but fall in love with her.

Both of the main characters in this book are so adorable and sweet to read during the Christmas holidays. Which really made my day when I read this book in one sitting.

The Christmas spirit is this book is just so cozy and fun that in a way it has boosted my Christmas spirit last Christmas I actually read this book and the entire series in general. Which I personally gave this book some extra points because of it giving me a little Christmas kick.

The plot in this book actually has a very generic Christmas plot do it, since the main characters moves into a new apartment building and she gets a crush on her upstairs neighbor. But the way the author tells this generic plot, makes it unique in a way and the plot doesn’t feel like you have watched or read the same plot unfold a million times before. Which again made me give this book some extra points for doing that.

The writing style in this book surprised me a lot to be honest. Because it was simple and quick to read but at the same time it didn’t feel like a typical YA writing style. It felt more like a advanced version of that, which can resonate with the YA readers and those of us who aren’t big fans of the YA genre.

I don’t know if it was just me but I had a really hard time trying to put this book done while reading it. And because of this I read this entire book in one sitting. But also the fact that this book is 50 something pages long makes it very easy to read this book in one sitting.

If ups are looking for a Christmas book to read during this Christmas season I would recommend this one because how much I loved this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“Finding Perfect” By Colleen Hoover Review

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Finding Perfect is a novella that brings back some of Colleen’s most beloved characters. Told from the point of view of Daniel from Finding Cinderella, readers will finally get the conclusion they’ve been hoping for. For the best reading experience, make sure you’ve read all four books that come together to make up this heartwarming story: Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, and All Your Perfects.

Here we are again talking about another Colleen Hoover book which didn’t work for me personally. 

This book is a part of a series written by Colleen Hoover named “Hopeless” and it is set right after “All your perfects” which I have reviewed a few months ago.

I gotta say that this book isn’t as bad as the majority of Colleen Hoover’s books I’ve read so far. If you have been around my website for awhile now, you may know that Colleen Hoover is my most misliked author I come across so far in life. But I gotta give her some complements when it comes to this book because this book isn’t as bad as the other books I’ve read from her. Which in my opinion says a lot.

This book doesn’t give me a lot to talk about because it is very short. But what I can say for sure about this book is that it is very simple and very far from being a good book

In my opinion the best part about this book was the writing style it had. But don’t get me wrong, the writing style in this book wasn’t great. But it was much better than the plot, characters and the rest of the aspects of this book. 

The characters in this book are okay if you dont think about them during reading this book or afterwards. Because they are okay if you just follow the story and go with the flow of this book. But the moment you start thinking about them or looking into them you realize that they are very shallow and flat. But also very annoying. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“This Is How We Do It: A Pep Talk” By Kevin Hart Review

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YOU CAN DO IT. You’ve heard this advice before. Yes, of course you have. It’s straight out of the self-help bible. But wait. Are you ready to hear it from a guy who’s made so many mistakes he could fill eighteen other books about them? A guy who went to community college for exactly two weeks and earned a degree in nothing? A guy who wore long tights for a marathon?

To be very honest here I had very little expectations for this book, since its a self-help book and I am very skeptical to self-help books written by celebrities since celebrities are very detected from reality as it goes. But after reading this book I gotta say that its actually very good but I’m gonna explain why I mean here throughout this review.

This book isn’t the type of self-help book which well researched, it is more what the tittle of the book says which is a Pep talk if you will. Reading this book feels more like having a conversations rather than reading a self-help book which tries to motivate you. Which made me give this book some extra points.

This book is a very quick read. At the same time it is a fun and good read even they you can tell it isn’t well researched but rather what Kevin Hart have learned throughput his life in the comedy industry and acting industry. So it means that this book doesn’t hav the same professional aspect to it as the majority of self-help books out there which really in my opinion only added more to this book. Since as I said above it makes this book fun to read.

This book does a very good job at motivating you to actually do the hard work and make changes in your life in the areas you aren’t satisfied with in your life. Which really a lot of self-help books Ive read in my day fails to do so and bombards you just scientific jargon which really doesn’t help you. But this book is positively different from the majority of the self-help book.

Some of the writing in this book is not the greatest. Its not bad nor is it good. The writing style is simple and easy to read. But a lot of times the writing style feels like something you would use when you talk with one of your good friends rather than writing a self-help book for the rest of humanity to read.

All the solution to get a better life presented in this book are very realistic and very easy to achieve if you sett your mind to. Which really made me give this book a few extra points when rating it.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Shakespeare’s Sonnets” By William Shakespeare Review

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The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare’s work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.

Let me give you a quick explanation of why I’m again reviewing William Shakespeare. In December I got an Kindle, and I was playing around with it and I say that this e-book was for free on the “Prime Reading” category so I decided to read the short stories and poem of William Shakespeare because I really enjoyed reading his work the first time around. So I decided to review this book because some of my opinion about the William Shakespeare’s work included in this book have changed.

This book contains all the sonnets written by William Shakespeare and I gotta admit that reading them second time after I read them for the first time in 2022 which by now is 2 years ago. 

2 years ago I rated most of William Shakespeare’s sonnets as 1-star or 2-star reads but now I would say that most of them I would have rated them higher than that. Not 5-star reads but decent 3-star and 4-star reads. I personally think that, that is some very much personal growth on literature. 

If you want me to re-review all of the sonnets individually again then let me now in the comments because I will gladly do that if there is interest for that.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings” By Edgar Allan Poe Review

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Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe’s prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales

Let me give you a quick explanation of why I’m again reviewing Edgar Allan Poe. In December I got an Kindle, and I was playing around with it and I say that this e-book was for free on the “Prime Reading” category so I decided to read the short stories and poem of EAP (Edgar Allan Poe) because I really enjoyed reading his work the first time around. So I decided to review this book because some of my opinion about the EAP’s work included in this book have changed.

This book contains The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Ligeia, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelstrom, The Pit and the Pendulum, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Premature Burial, William Wilson, Eleonara, Silence-A Fable, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Stanzas, Romance, To Helen, Israfel, The City in the Sea, The Sleeper, The Valley of Unrest, Lenore, The Raven, A Valentine, Ulanume-A Ballad, For Annie, Annabel Lee, The Bells & Alone.

The last time I read anything by EAP was in 2021, which is now solid 4 years ago and I need to be honest here and admit that majority of the stories and poems in this book have been much better now on re-reading them than what I felt about them back in 2021 when I read them for the first time. 

The reason behind it might be that my opinions, thoughts, likes and dislikes changed in those 4 years or the amount of books ive read in those 4 years have affected me without me realizing it.

Of course if you want me to re-read all of EAP’s work again and re-review them then let me now in the comments because now I would have given them different ratings and different opinions in the reviews than what I did on the first read of them. 

But I gotta say that this book surprised me a lot, because it gave me the joy of being a new reader back in 2020 and 2021 and why I decided to start this website to talk about the books, short stories and poems ive read and maybe help people decide what books, short stories or poems they should pick up and which once they shouldn’t.

Yes after reading this book, I come to the realization that EAP is easily one of my top 5 authors (so far in my life at least.)

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Andrew Tate – Escape The Matrix : 92 Laws Of Success, Money & Fame” By Cobra Tate & Arslan Chaudhry Review

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Some Lessons teaches how to use dark psychology for sales(“Lesson 85: Send People Their Money Back”), others teaches the mindset required (“Lesson 25: Be Passionate For Money Only”) and people’s favorite (“Lesson 63: Loser Rolls With Losers, Winner Rolls With Winner”) Every Lesson, though, has one thing in It teaches you how to become RICH. This Book is ideal whether you’re just starting out or if you already have a six figure business.

I need to admit that I don’t know why I tried to read this book because I hate Andrew Tate and don’t agree with a single thing he says. But very fortunately I didn’t spend any money on this book because when I got this book on my kindle it was free. 

This book is just a collection of all the shitty things Andrew Tate said on camera to earn money from the watch time on his videos to traffic women. 

I had more or less DNF-ed this book after reading 10 pages of this book, because I’ve noticed this book isn’t worth my time or the memory usage on my Kindle. 

If you are like me and don’t agree with anything which comes out of Andrew Tate’s mouth, don’t reading this book because it isn’t worth the time or effort to read this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Sun Down Motel” By Simone St. James review

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Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. But something isn’t right at the Sun Down, and before long she’s determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden.

I gotta admit that this book had surprised me a lot because I didn’t think it would have been as good as it is. I need to say that this book is easily the best book I’ve read last year.

However dont buy into the fact on Goodreads that this book has a huge ghost story in it. Yes there are a few moments where the ghosts comes into the plot. But those moments are very rare and the majority of this book is a investigation about what happened to the main character’s aunt a few decades before.

In this book we get to follow 2 perspectives, one perspective takes place in 1982 and we follow Vivian (aunt) and the second perspective takes place in 2017 and we follow Carly (niece). Both of the perspective takes place in Sun Down motel and the town where the sun down motel is located in.

I think the two perspectives helped me to like this book as much as I did. Because it makes it more interesting because we get two see the story through 2 different perspectives and we can learn the story through Vivian and Carly.

The characters in this book are very good. Because all the characters have a lot of personality to them and they are very unique in their own way. All the characters have they own quirks and something which makes them really relatable.

The writing style in this book is very good, because its like the author knew what words to use to completely grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end of this book. 

I need to admit that there were some moments in this book which dragged for too long, which made the book boring at times. 

The ending of this book has huge twist to it, but the twist in my opinion wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. Of course I cant say what the twist is but it really killed of the mood a little bit. I don’t know if it was me but I could see the the plot twist at the end coming from chapters away.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“City of Bones” By Cassandra Clare Review

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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

I gotta say that I have to stop reading those very overhyped books on the internet, since neither of them are actually good in my personal opinion. 

This book is a very typical YA book, with the plot being very unbelievable. Like the beginning of this book where the bouncer at a nightclub lets in 2 15-year-old girls into the nightclub. 

I personally found this book very boring. The reason behind this might be the fact that it was in a huge reading slub while I picked up this book and tried to read it. Its important to say that I DNF-ed this book 150 pages or so into this book. 

I think that I was bit of too harsh to this book because of the reading slub I was in during reading this book. And because of this I wanted to read it again some time in the future. 

This book has a good beginning because its interesting and somehow enjoyable. But the deeper you get into this book all the momentum this book had during the beginning disappears and all the interesting parts just vanish into thin air. 

The writing style in this book is a very typical for a YA book, which means that its easy to read and it isn’t advanced. But I personally liked the writing style in this book because it played well with the plot of this book. 

The characters in this book were very generic for a YA book, which really disappointed me a bit because I’ve read on the internet that the characters in this book and the entire book series are very good. 

But after reading this book I gotta say that the characters are pretty flat and somehow shallow. Because they have very little personality and they almost blend together cuz they are so similar to each other in their personalities. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Big Book of Serial Killers” By Jack Rosewood & Rebecca Lo Review

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There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day to day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader’s, the fathers, husbands, church going members of the community. This A-Z encyclopedia of 150 serial killers is the ideal reference book. Included are the most famous true crime serial killers, like Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez, and not to mention the women who kill, such as Aileen Wuornos and Martha Rendell. There are also lesser known serial killers, covering many countries around the world, so the range is broad. Each of the serial killer files includes information on when and how they killed the victims, the background of each killer, or the suspects in some cases such as the Zodiac killer, their trials and punishments. For some there are chilling quotes by the killers themselves. The Big Book of Serial Killers is an easy to follow collection of information on the world’s most heinous murderers.

The reason why I read this book wasn’t that I was interested in actually reading it, but I got this book as a gift from someone and since I already had it on my TBR bookshelf I decided to go ahead and finally read it after this book had laid on the shelf for a better part of 2 years. Its also important to say that I had DNF-ed this book after having read 150 pages of it or so. 

To be honest in this review I gotta say that I had quite a few issues with this book, and I will explain all of my issues with this book of course right here in this review. 

The main thing which annoyed me the most about this book is that this book contains false information about the cases or serial killers it talks about. Those false information doesn’t happen often but they do happen a fair share of times during this book. I personally think that if you gonna write a book about a true crime cases then the author should at the very least double check the dates, victim names, and other relevant information before printing and publishing the book.

The second thing which annoyed me a lot, was the very bad grammar in this book. As some of you may know from being around my website for a while, English isn’t my native language but even I noticed the very bad grammar in this book. Which really in my opinion says a lot about how bad the grammar is for someone who’s second language is English to notice the bad grammar. 

This book is supposed to be a encyclopedia that gives an overview of each killer but the problem with that it focuses very little time into each killer and by doing that it gives us a bare minimum of information and details about each killer which doesn’t make this book be a “encyclopedia”. To be honest you can learn more about each case if you just watch a 5 minute YouTube video about each killer. 

The tone of this book is also very bad because it feels like written by someone in the 5th or 6th grade. Because of the many spelling or grammatical errors which happen over and over again in this book. 

From what I have seen on Goodreads, Jack Rosewood had written a fair share of true crime books about real like serial killers. Which doesn’t look good for me after reading this book. Because there are so many things a experienced writer like him wouldn’t do, but it was done anyways in this book.

I personally have been interested in the topic of serial killers, so I have some kind of knowledge about the majority of people discussed this book. And to be very honest here, you can find much better sources on the internet which do much better job covering the cases than this book does. 

There are a lot of printing errors in this book too. Which really annoyed me because the layout of this book would change every couple of pages or chapters which really made me confused. Because if the author spend x amount of hours researching the cases and writing about them, why wouldn’t he spend a few more hours making sure that the layout of this book is the same from front to back ?

It almost feels like there was no published or editor having a look on this book before actually printing and selling the copies of this book. Which really blows my mind because at this point I have read hundreds of books and this book is the first one I came across which have the stupidest mistakes which could have been avoided.

So after reading this book, or trying to read it, I gotta say that this book isn’t worth the time nor the money you will spend on it. Because it gives the reader the bare minimum about each case and it is filled with errors that really should be avoided when you are about to publish a book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“A Court of Frost and Starlight” By Sarah J. Maas Review

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Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can’t keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.

This book is between book 3 and book 4 in “A Court of Thorns and Roses” book series. 

I gotta say that this book is less impressive than the 3 previous books in this series, because this book follows multiple characters like Feyra, Rhysand, Kasjan and Morrigan. All of their perspectives talk about how they deal with the events of the third book in the series as they prepare for Christmas.

I gotta say that the plot was okay for the most part, its not as fun and interesting for me personally as the 3 previous books in this series were. This book dense involve any battles or war meetings instead it focuses on what I said above. 

Even thou this book is about preparing about Christmas it doesn’t have the Christmas vibe a lot of books about Christmas have, which made me deduct a few points because of it.

This book is pretty short, my copy of this book has 265 pages, and this book has quiet a few Feyre and Rhy’s naughty scenes. To be very honest here I didnt expected to have so many of them in such a short book this one is.

In this book we also got the see the characters from this universe having a normal lives which really wasn’t that existing for me personally but it was still fun to get to see that happen. 

The writing style in this book wasn’t as impressive as it was in the 3 previous books in this series which really made me disappointed in a way. But still it might not have been the most impressive writing style in this series but it was still much better than some other books ive read to this point. But if you want me to give you a straight answer about the writing style I gotta say that it was pretty decent.

The characters here were very good, you could easily see in this book that the characters really matured and changed in a way since the events of book 3. Which really made me happy.

I Give This Book 3 / 5