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“The Pumpkin Spice Café” By Laurie Gilmore Review

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When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Will Jeanie’s happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won’t fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes.

I have to start with this interview by saying that I was very skeptical about this book and the whole series in general before getting into it. Because I thought it would be one of those very overhyped books and series that would appear on my BookTok feed. But after finishing this book I need to admit that I had really much liked this book and am very interested in reading the rest of this series. 

The plot in this book is very cheesy but also very very cozy. Even thou I’m not a huge fan of romance books I kinda admit that I really liked the plot in this book. There was something about it which made me very interested and engaged in the plot even thou its not my usual read. 

The reason why I say this book is a cozy read is because the plot in this book is very sweet, endearing and funny which makes it a perfect autumn where you can sit infant of a fireplace wrapped in a blanket and read a sweet and funny book. Which this book is easily is in my opinion.

The plot in this book is very simple and easy going, which makes it a perfect read if you don’t want to use a lot of brain power while reading a book. The plot is very interesting and enjoyable. And as I’ve said above the plot in this book is very cozy where all you want to do is chill in a comfy chair and read all day.  

I personally liked the plot of this book so much as I does, because my all time biggest dream is to own my own coffee shop at some point in my life. And the fact that this book is about jeanie who’s aunt gifts her with a coffee shop. 

The characters in this book were very good. Because they felt like real human beings which I would have no problem becoming best friends with in real life. All of the characters we get in this book are written very well and I had no problem at all in loving the characters in this book.

Each of the characters we get in this book, have their own personalities and something that makes them unique and stand out from the rest of the characters in this book.

The writing style in this book is very simple and easy going. Which really goes well together with the plot. Both the writing style and storyline in this book are very straightforward and you don’t need to use a lot of brain power while reading this book to enjoy it.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“Problematic Summer Romance” By Ali Hazelwood Review

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Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.

I need to admit here that I was pretty skeptical about this book before getting into it. Because I’ve read one book by the author before reading this one which was “Cruel Winter with You” which was okay but not the best. So I thought that this book would also be a pretty average read, when in reality it was easily in my top 10 best books I’ve read this year. If you want me to make a list of the 10 best books and 10 worst books I’ve read this year at the end of 2025, let me know in the comments. 

The plot of this book was very incredible. Because from the first page of this book I was complete sucked into the plot of it and I had the hardest time ever putting this book down. And when I wasn’t reading it, I was constantly thinking about it and thinking about what would happen next.

The plot in this book was very sweet and cute. The main plot of this book is the main character named Maya, going to Italy for her older brother’s wedding where she meets again her brother’s best friend which she had a crush on for years even thou he is 15 years older than her. So we get a lot of the age-gap romance situation in this book which was pretty cheesy but at the same time also very sweet and cute in my opinion at least. 

The characters in this book book are just as incredible as the plot. The characters in this book have a lot of depth and personalities to them which make them feel like real human beings. 

Each of the characters in this book have their own personalities to them and something which makes them unique or standout from the rest of the characters we get in this book.

We get a handful of characters in this book, I personally had a pretty hard time figuring out who is who amongst the characters in the beginning of the book but the deeper I got into this book the easier and easier it was to tell the characters apart in this book and actually find them to be likable and relatable. Which made me like this book even more because of how much I loved the characters in this book.

The writing style in this book was very good. 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. 

As you might think, this book has a lot of drama going on. The drama that takes place takes us on a roller coaster of emotions which shows how good of a job the author did writing this book.

Even thou this book is over 400 pages long, I read it in 2 or 3 days because of how sucked I got into the plot of this book. And because how interesting and enjoyable I found this book to be.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“The Scarlet Letter” By Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

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Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

I need to admit here that this book wasn’t the best classical book Ive read in my time, but it wasn’t the worst either. I have pretty mixed feelings about this book on one side I liked this book but on the second side I didn’t like this book. So this book might be a mixed review between me liking this book and me not liking this book. So lets get into this review and lets see how this review turns out to be in the end.

The plot was kind of nice in this book because it is about Hester which sort of is a outcast of the society and I do love when a book has its main character being a outcast or a loner. I personally think that this book paints the perfect picture of a a strict society and how they don’t work because every human being is different in their own way.

However I think that this book is way too long that what it needed to be. I think that the plot which this book has would have done a better job if it was a 50 pages long rather than being over 250 pages long which of course this book is. 

There are many times the book uses a lot of words to describe things which could have been described in a sentence or two instead of dedicating a page or two to describe the thing. Which made me very bored at times because how this book would stretch itself out without an reason.

The writing style in this book has also the very old English writing style which at times annoyed me because I needed to google certain words to understand what they meant. When that happens to me, it usually means that I wont give the book a high rating.

The characters in this book are all over the place for me personally at least. On one side I liked the characters but on the other side I feel like the author was trying too hard to make us think that the main character was a witch even though the author didn’t give us a lot of evidence supporting that other than saying “trust me, the main character is a witch”.

Overall I wasn’t a big fan of this book but Im glad I read this book because I was able to cross out another classic book from my reading list.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“Rozdroże kruków” By Andrzej Sapkowski Review

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Oto słowa Proroka: zaprawdę powiadam wam, że nastanie chaos w wielu miejscach i ogień często będzie wybuchał. Słońce rozjaśni się w nocy, a księżyc w ciągu dnia, gwiazdy zaś zaczną spadać. Krew będzie ciec z drzewa, a kamień wyda głos. Dzikie bestie będą atakować, a niewiasty brzemienne będą rodzić potwory. I oto sprawdziło się proroctwo i oczom naszym stało się ono widome: niewiasty porodziły potwory. Wiedźmini są tymi potworami, heroldami chaosu i zguby.

At the time of writing this review, this book is only available in polish but I’ve seen that this book will be available for purchase in English on September 30th 2025 so by the end of this month. With that being said lets get into the review of this new Witcher book.

As some of you might know I’m a huge fan of The Witcher book series, so when I’ve heard this book was published I knew that I needed to read this book. This book takes place way before “season of storms” and “the last wish” in the series. The action takes place shortly after Gerald leaves Kaer Morhen and tries to make his way around the world of the Witcher universe as a young and new Witcher. I cant say much more than that without spoiling anything which will take place in the plot of this book.

The plot in this book its very interesting and enjoyable. From the very moment I started reading this book I was completely clued to the book and I had a very hard time closing it if I needed to do something else than sitting on my bean bag and read this amazing book. 

I completely love this book, not because it was better than the other books in the series but because the last time I read a book in the series was in 2023 so over 2 years ago. And when I was reading this book I had the huge feeling of nostalgia of reading the entire series for the first time and not appreciating it fully back then as I do now. Back then I said that the series was okay fantasy read or something similar to that, but now I completely love the entire series and the entire series is easily my second favorite book series right after “a song of ice and fire” book series. I love this series so much that it is even above the Harry Potter book series which I love to death. But back to reviewing this book. 

We get quite a handful of characters in this book. But all of them were incredible characters which I loved a lot even those once which I disliked because they were the “villains” of this book. 

This book gives us a lot of incredible characters which are very likable and memorable. Which mad emerges give this book some extra points for having. 

Even Gerald in this book seemed an amazing character, even better than in the other books in this series. Because we get to learn more about the earlier days of him being out of the Kaer Morhen and out in the world as a new and young Witcher. In this book we get a lot of Gerald’s backstory which gives the entire series more depth.

At the same time we get to know more of the characters in the series, which only add more to the overall series in my opinion at the very least.

The writing style in this book was amazing, because it was like the author of this book knew exactly what words to use to complete grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end of this book. Even when I wasn’t reading this book I was constantly thinking about what would happen next in this book, which really shows how much I was sucked into this book. 

As I’ve said above this book isn’t the best book in this series, it is pretty average but the reason why I give this book 4 out of 5 is because of the nostalgia I had for returning to the book series. 

The only thing I didn’t like about this book is the fact that I didn’t want it to end. The last time I read a Witcher book was in 2023 when I finished reading the entire series, so now that we got this new book out I didn’t want it to end.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

“The Story of the Treasure Seekers” By E. Nesbit Review

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When their father’s business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book which is the main reason why I read this book. I had a lot of expectations for this book because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book and I need to admit that it didn’t live up most of my expectations for this book. But 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 comic book was very sweet and enjoyable. There is a lot of adventures in this book, and for the most part the plot in this book is pretty wholesome.

The plot of this book is about children learn the harsh realities of capitalism, which I found to be very intriguing and interesting to read about. Even if this book tends to go a little overboard with the extensive use of words and describing things. 

This book was a very quick read. I read this entire book in one sitting. Because I just couldn’t put this book down and I was so hooked into the plot which this book has.

The writing style was very good in this book. It was easily my favorite part of this book. It was like the author knew what words to use to completely hook me into the plot and keep me reading until the very end of this book. But there are times where the writing style in this book is pretty clunky because of the old English and the fact that this book was published in 1899.

The characters in this book were well written and created. They seemed like real human beings and it was very easy for me to find them likable and relatable. Which of course made me give this book some extra points for doing.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Watchers” By A.M. Shine Review

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This forest isn’t charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina’s is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.

I need to say here that this book was pretty decent horror book. It was far from being the best horror book I’ve read in my time but it wasn’t the worst I’ve read either. 

The plot in this comic book is very intriguing and interesting. Which really made me give this book a lot of high expectations which this book didn’t live up to for the most part.

The main reason why this book didn’t live up to my expectations is because its too long. The plot this book has would have been so much better if it was shorten down to being a short story or 100 pages long book rather than being over 300 pages long. There isn’t a lot of action in this book because this book is filled with a lot of things which aren’t relevant to the main plot of this book. Which is the reason why I say that this book would have been so much better if it was 200 pages shorter and actually stuck with the main plot of this book rather than building 200 pages of nothing onto the plot. 

The beginning and the ending of this book was very good and I was very enjoying both of them. But the middle part of this book seemed like a huge stretching out the plot for as long as possible process which I felt as I was reading it. I personally think that this book was was too drawn out and very very overwritten which really have taken out the enjoyment and interested in me as I was reading this book.

I personally also liked a lot the use of the Irish mythology and the very creepy forest setting which I’m a huge fan of when it comes to the horror book genre. 

The characters in this book, are pretty decent in this book. We get a handful of characters in this book and I gotta admit that there weren’t the best I’ve seen in my time reading books. 

The characters in this book had a lot of premise to be very good characters, but the way the author presents them really misses the mark of what could have made them memorable and good characters in this book. Because the author chooses to focus on one character for the entire book which means we also get to know really well one of those characters.

The writing style in this book makes it feel like it was meant for YA readers because of how simple and easy the writing style is. I personally liked the writing style because I was able to read this book in one sitting because of how easy going the writing style was. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“We Shall Be Monsters” By Alyssa Wees Review

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Gemma lives with her mother in an isolated antique shop in Michigan, near a small patch of woods that conceals an enchanted gateway to fairyland. She knows she’s not supposed to go into the woods – her mother Virginia has warned her multiple times about the monsters that lurk there – and yet defiantly, curiously, she goes anyway.

I need to admit here that the only reason why I read this book is because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book on Tik Tok. And after reading this book I gotta admit that this book doesn’t live up to the hype it has on the Tik Tok. 

The storyline in this book is very hard to get into because the storyline is very hard to get into. I personally found it to be very confusing because I didn’t know what was happening in this book as I was reading it because the storyline seemed all over the place in this book.

The pacing in this book was very very slow. The plot would take forever to go anywhere which really annoyed me because of how slow this book is. I don’t even know what the main plot in this book was, because the plot so slow and it kept switching directions very frequently.

In this book we get 2 different POVs which made me even more confused as I was reading this book. Because both of these POVs sounded very similar to me personally and because of it I had a really hard time telling the POVs apart.

The writing style here was very simple here. Almost too simple. As if it was meant for a elementary school student to read it. But it wouldn’t make sense but Goodreads ranks this book as “adult” category book.

The characters in this book seemed to me like the same character but split into multiple characters instead of being one good character.

All the characters in this book seemed very similar, and for the most part had the same thoughts and opinions which made it very hard for me to tell them apart from each other.

To be very honest here, this book didn’t feel like a fantasy book. It felt more like a fiction book because of how little fantasy elements this book had. Actually this book had none fantasy elements to make it a “fantasy” book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Little Dorrit” By Charles Dickens Review

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Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.”

I need to admit that I was a little bit scared of reading this book because of the size of this book and how long ago it was published. I was scared of getting into this book because I was afraid that I would hate this book. But after reading this book I need to admit that this book wasn’t bad as I thought it would have been. If you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book, then keep reading this review of mine.

The plot in this book, is pretty decent. For the most part of plot here is pretty interesting for the most part. But at times the plot in this book would drag out for way too long. Which really annoyed me a lot because the plot would have pages about stuff which didn’t matter for the plot. Because the moment does long moments come to pass they are simply forgotten and to not be talked again later in the book.

For the most part the plot in this book is pretty decent as I’ve said above. For the most part the plot here was pretty decent and fun to read. But there were also a lot of moments where the plot would focus pages on things which didn’t lead the plot anywhere.

This book is a very slow book, because there isn’t a lot which happens in this book other than getting long descriptions of things and read about people talking a lot in the old English style which people used in 1857.

The characters in this book aren’t the best. There are a lot of characters in this book and I had a really hard time keeping track of the characters and telling them apart in this book. And if you read some of my reviews in the past you will know that this a huge no-no for me personally if I have hard time telling the characters apart from each other in a book.

At the same time the characters we get in this book aren’t that good. All of the characters in this book felt to me like they were variations of the same character, because of hard time I had keeping track of the characters and because all of the characters in this book seemed very similar to each other and they didn’t have anything that would make them unique or stand out from the rest of the characters we do get in this book.

Each of the characters in this book have their separate lives which intertwine which each others during the plot line in this book. But I gotta admit even thou those characters have their own lives they still seem like the same person to me but a different backstory. 

The writing style in this book is very generic to Charles Dickens, which means that he uses a lot of words to describe things which could have been described in way less shorter form and with less words used. Charles Dickens likes to use a lot of words in his books and this book isn’t any different from his other books I’ve read.

I need to admit here that this book isn’t the best Charles Dickens book I’ve read, but at the same time it isn’t the worst. This book is very average Charles Dickens book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The New Atlantis” By Francis Bacon Review

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In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where “generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit” are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon’s House (or Solomon’s House), envisioned the modern research university in both applied and pure sciences.

This book is a utopia themed book which really surprised me a lot in how bad it is. I tend to like utopia books like The Hunger Games and Ready Player One. So when I got to this book I had some high expectations for this book which it didn’t live up to.

The vision this book has for a future society is very ridiculous. Because the way this book describes a utopian society made me think “I don’t need to be Nostradamus to know that this shit will never happen”. 

The reason why I say this book is ridiculous is because the characters in this book considers the Africans to be the ‘little foul ugly Spirits of Fornication’, the American Indians super ‘savage’ and the Chinese ‘foolish’. As you can notice that book throws into the plot very wide generalizations about people with different ethnicities.

The plot in this book seems very stereotypical and like it was written as orthodox christian propaganda. Which really made me like this book less than I already did.

The writing style in this book is pretty weak. Because it felt like the author of this book didn’t know what he was doing. And even the writing style in this book feels like a pure orthodox christian propaganda. Which I personally hate the most in books when the book turns out to be an religious propaganda book.

However this book had some good moments throughout this book, but those moments were pretty rare. Because most of the time this book felt like reading a torture device in literature form.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“The 7 Habits on the Go: Timeless Wisdom for a Rapidly Changing World eBook Companion” By Stephen R. Covey Review

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This book is one of these self-help book which talk about the same things the more well known self-help book talks about but it just says it in different ways.

This book talks about a lot of self-help topics which I read hundreds of times in other and better self-help books at this point. Which means that this self-help book isn’t that unique but rather worse than the more well known self-help books available out there in the world.

This book is around 150 pages long which is like the average length for a self-help book. And in those 150 pages this book talks about a lot of topics, which means that each topics get very little time to explain itself.

Some topics in this book are very well and quickly explained which means you can understand it quicker than reading some other self-help book which has the same point in it. While other topics in this book are very poorly explained because of the short time they get in this book which makes it very hard to explain them properly.

The writing style in this book is okay for the most part. The writing style in this book is pretty generic to a self-help book. And it isn’t unique or extraordinary. Which really doesn’t give us a lot to talk about when it comes to it.

This book is pretty quick read and makes some good points here and there. But overall if you want to read a good self-help book than I wouldn’t say this book is a goo-to because it is. I would rather go with the more well known and better self-help books I already review on this website.

I Give This Book 3 / 5