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“After” By Anna Todd Review

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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

“Motive X” By Stefan Ahnhem Review

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Detective Fabian Risk’s daughter is in a coma at Helsingborg hospital. It’s Risk’s fault for getting her involved in his last investigation – and the guilt is crippling. A MURDERED BOY. 

This book started of good but it quickly went down the hill for me personally and I just ended up DNF-ing it after like 47%. Which is sad because I personally hate DNF-ing mystery and thriller books. 

The plot here is okay in the beginning but it goes fast to being overwhelming and I personally had super hard time keeping track of everything which was happening and of who was who. 

There are many investigations in this book and the main investigation of this book basically gets thrown to the side for the majority of this book.

For me all of the characters kept blending in together and I just couldn’t tell them apart which was the biggest reason why I DNF-ed this book. 

All of the characters in this book are very weak and it is almost impossible to tell them apart which I already pointed out above. 

The writing style in this book was very weak and I just didn’t like it. It felt like it was written by a fresh author in the game which isn’t true because the author of this book have written multiple books before this one. And this book is the fourth book in a series named “Fabian Risk”. Which might be the reason why I didn’t like this book and why I DNF-ed it. Because beginning a series in the middle is a bad call. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Spowiedź Hitlera. Szczera rozmowa z Żydem” By Christopher Macht Review

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Kwiecień, rok 1945. Do siedziby Adolfa Hitlera na specjalne wezwanie wodza zostaje sprowadzony „szlachetny Żyd”, Eduard Bloch. Ten sam, który przez wiele lat leczył matkę kanclerza Rzeszy, za co Hitler był mu szalenie wdzięczny. Führer oznajmia Blochowi, że dostąpi niebywałego zaszczytu spisania ostatniej rozmowy z nim. Wszystko dzieje się kilka dni przed śmiercią Hitlera.

At the time of writing this review this book is only available in Polish and in German. 

There is one thing to keep in mind when going into this book which is that this book is more of a historical fiction rather than fully historical.

This book has many illustrations and it is pretty quick to read. Due to the writing fond being pretty large.

Even thou this book is a historical fiction, this book is still interesting as a biography of Hitler if you don’t want to get into the massive books about Hitler.

The conversation between hitler and Eduard Bloch are pretty short but you get a huge insight into Hitler. Because the conversation really shows in a way his true face. 

However this book shows us Hitler as a human and nice person who loves children and animals rather than the guy who gave the order to kill millions of innocent people in concentration camps.

The writing style in this book is pretty easy and simple. This fact makes this book so much easier to read and so much faster to read as well.

Some things which are said in this book aren’t true, and you will very easily see it if you haven seen some documentary movies about Hitler or if you simple fact check the some details.

However this book is a really good start if you want to get into historical books.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Dead and Gone” By Charlaine Harris Review

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The great revelation goes well at first – then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found in the parking lot of Merlotte’s, and Sookie agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. But there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful, and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves, is preparing for war. And Sookie is an all-too-human pawn in their ages-old battle.

In this book we get a new way going on. But this time it isn’t vampire war nor a were war. This time it is a Fae war which really blow my ming because I didn’t expect that to happen. 

The plot here was okay for the most part. It wasn’t a masterpiece as the rest of the series. But the action in this book have picked up from the previous books. And the action happened to be interesting and engaging and I just couldn’t put the book down. 

The characters here are very likeable and the character development is amazing in this series. The characters are still are on the annoying side in this book but it doesn’t bother me anymore because over the 9 books I grown to like them.

Eric in this book becomes the best character in this series. Which he already was for me personally. 

To be honest the author had over-delivered thing which we as readers didn’t really care for. And it in a way had disappointed me. 

This book changed the focus from vampire to every other supernatural creatures like shapeshifters, fairies etc. this happened in book 7 or 8 if I remember correctly but this fact became twice as strong in this book. We really get to see vampires in this book for max 10 pages and the rest is focus on the other supernatural creatures.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Mandalorian Season 2 Junior Novel” By Joe Schreiber Review

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The Mandalorian and Grogu continue their journey to find more of Grogu’s kind as they make their way through a dangerous galaxy in the tumultuous era following the fall of the Empire. They will encounter strange creatures, mysterious Jedi, old friends, and the sinister Moff Gideon, who wants the Child for his own purposes.

Another very good book from the star wars universe, which I truly love more and more with each passing year.

This book is very fun and easy to read. And this book is very good for all ages as well no matter if you buy this book for your child or if you want to read it yourself at any age.

This book is very short which means that it is very quick to read. This book and be read in 2 sittings or less if you really sett your mind on it. 

This book is very simple retelling of the second season of The Mandalorian. Seeing the series first and then reading this book after some months is a pure enjoyment since it’s like seeing the second season for the first time but from a different perspective other than TV.

In my opinion this book feels a little bit waker than the first book. But I still loved it. 

The characters are just as amazing as they were in the first book and in the second season. But in a way it feels like getting to know them all over again since you get to read about them rather than watch them on Disney +. 

The writing style is very simple and easy, and it fully can be read by a 10 year old if they have an interested in star wars. 

The ending is as amazing, because of Luke Skywalker showing up to save the day which really gives me a bigger nostalgia. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“The Push” By Ashley Audrain Review

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The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.

Ive heard a lot of good about this book, and after reading this book I needed to be honest and say that it didn’t live up to my expectations.

This book is a kind of psychological thriller, and defiantly is uncomfortable to read at times but in my opinion that’s what made this book fun to read. Because it’s disturbing at times.

There are a lot of books with the same premise that the daughter is a monster but the way the author presents the story to us makes it unique. Because we are stuck with thinking about if the daughter is truly a monster or if its the mother who doesn’t love her daughter and thinking of her as an insane psychopath.

The writing style was pretty easy in this book, but at the same time it made this book so much easier and faster to read. Which really went well with this book. 

The majority of this book was very interesting and mysterious but the last 10% of this book really went downhill and pretty much destroyed the book for me personally.

The characters here are more or less okay. They seem flat most of the time, but there are times when they feel like real human beings. The characters here get some good moments here and there throughout the book, but these moments were really rare.

The dad in this book is too love blind towards his daughter and completely denies that there might be something wrong with his daughter even thou many people tells him that something might be wrong with her. This fact really made me angry and frustrated because we get a lot of events involving the daughter which makes it clear that she isn’t a normal child with normal child behaviour.  

This book has a good premise but the way it ended just ruined the entire book. Because we spend the entire book thinking if the daughter is a psychopath or if it just the mother who is overdramatising everything her daughter does. And the ending just pretty much summarises the whole book that the daughter is a psychopath and the mother is a overdramatising queen.

Once you have around 80 pages left of this book, the ending becomes very predictable and really leaves you annoyed, frustrated and unsatisfied.

And the ending really felt like you read this book a million times before. Due to its shitty thriller ending and how it surprised the plot of this entire book in one line. Which really made me want to throw this book against a wall or burn it.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Doctor Sleep” By Stephen King Review

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On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

This book is sequel to “The Shinning”. I had this book on my TBR pile for at least 2 years and I finally read it.

In my opinion this book was very enjoyable, interesting and very fun to read but “The Shinning” was much better than this one. I still like this one but there are couple of things I wish this book had but it didn’t.

This book is entertaining but it doesn’t have the same high quality as The Shining has. Which for the most part is my main problem with this book.

The characters here are okay for the most part. I loved Danny which is a grown adult in this book and the events from the first book results in the adult damaged Danny in this book. Which I personally loved to see. To be personally he was one of the best characters coming from Stephen King so far at least. Because we see the evolution which he had from the first book to this book. 

When it comes to the rest of the characters I need to be honest here and say that I didn’t care for them at all. All of the characters (expect of Danny) were okay for the most part but I didn’t like them or relate to them in any way. 

The writing style here is very Stephen King style which I personally truly love. Some of you who are die hard Stephen King fans like me will know what I mean. But if you don’t then let me explain. The writing style here is very good, it is really good for setting the mood for the entire book, and it for the most part seem like watching the entire plot play out rather than reading a book.  

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“From Dead to Worse” By Charlaine Harris Review

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After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone human and otherwise is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. It’s clear that things are changing whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community is caught up in the changes.

This book is very engaging to be fully honest here I didn’t expect that because of the 2 previous books in this series which were meh.

The plot here was slow at the beginning but it picked up a little bit at the end which really wasn’t enough for me because I wanted more action.

Even thou we get a little bit of the action we still get engaged in this book because there is a vampire war and a were war going on. Which I personally found very enjoyable and interesting. Because of the 2 wars going on in this book we get more information and details on both the vampires and the shapeshifters. And we get more info on the hierarchy on these both groups.

In a way we get 4 different storylines in this book because there is the vampire war going on, were war, sookie’s boyfriend going missing and sookie trying to survive everything. To be honest it was confusing to keep track of everything and what problem we are going through at each page.

The characters here are very likeable and the character development is amazing in this series. The characters are still are on the annoying side in this book but it doesn’t bother me anymore because over the 8 books I grown to like them. 

Even thou all these 8 books in this series so far take place in less than 1 year really don’t feel like it. It feels more like years went by because of the character development. Which really made me give this series a little bit of extra points.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” By Douglas Adams Review

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At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker series. 

This book is a collection of 5 novels and one short story in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Ive already review each of these 6 stories last summer. So today I will be talking about the series as a whole due to this book containing the entire series. 

I really wanted to like this series because I’ve heard so many good things about this series, and so many people happen to love this series. But to be fully honest this series just doesn’t work for me. And after reading this whole series I feel very disappointed because I lean more to not liking it.

I made one mistake while reading this series, which is that I’ve read the whole series within 2 weeks. Which I’ve learned isn’t a thing to do because you might need time to process what you read.

The humour in this series was pretty good in the first book and the second book. But when I got to the third book and the rest of this series I became very tired and annoying. 

The whole series would have been better if it ended after the fourth book and just skip writing and publishing the fifth book. 

The fifth book is the last book in this series and it the weakest book in the whole series. Because it feels more like a book about family and past drama rather than a sci-fi book as the rest of this series. 

While reading this series, I came to be vert confused far too many times to count. Which really makes me not like this series even more.

The characters in this series, are very hard to tell something about them. Since in the first book they are very good but as the series goes on I came to dislike them more and more. 

The writing style in this series is very good in the first book but the same thing happens as with the characters. The writing style becomes worse and worse as the series continues.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America” By Ari Berman Review

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In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power, with lawmakers devising new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth and with the Supreme Court declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.

I gotta be honest and say that this book is one of the best political books I’ve read so far. I personally am super interested in politics and books so why not start reading political books right? 

This book is about the voting rights and how black people and white people need and still need to face when it comes to the voting right in USA. We all know that USA have huge problems and this book shows that problems with voting rights is still relevant even at the end of 2023. Which is mind blowing to think about. 

This book starts with the Voter Rights Act in 1965 and it goes all the way to the Obama administration. Which is couple of decades and we truly see how little the voting rights have changed to be fully honest.

This book have good research in it which we get to see in this book. And this book provides us with evidence that voting rights issues are still relevant. 

The writing style here is amazing. The writing style really creates a soul in this book which I really enjoyed. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5