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“The Yellow Face” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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In “The Yellow Face,” Grant Munro thinks his wife is being blackmailed. He’s distraught and hires Sherlock Holmes to find out the details. He tells the story to Holmes and Watson of a strange apparition at a nearby cottage recently rented, of his wife’s visit to the cottage at 3 in the morning when she thought he was asleep, and her recent break in amiable behaviour. Holmes ponders and then states that he believes he has the answer. Yet, in Watson’s summary of the case, he indicates that it was a failure. What did you say?

The plot in this one is been what I’ve been waiting for in a Sherlock Holmes story. The plot his is a complete masterpiece. And a part of me wish that it would have been longer so that I would enjoy this story longer.

This one is very interesting, enjoyable and entreating which a Sherlock Holmes should be like. 

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“The Man With The Twisted Lip” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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Holmes and Dr. Watson discover each other in the black shadows of a smoke-filled opium den in the basement of the very house where Holmes is investigating his latest murder case! But of course the good doctor is only there to hunt down the drug-addicted husband of his wife’s dear, but distraught, friend. Sound confusing? For all but The Great Detective, it probably is. And we haven’t even talked about the murder yet!

The plot in this one is been what I’ve been waiting for in a Sherlock Holmes story. The plot his is a complete masterpiece. And a part of me wish that it would have been longer so that I would enjoy this story longer.

This one is very interesting, enjoyable and entreating which a Sherlock Holmes should be like. 

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“A Scandal in Bohemia” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to recover blackmail evidence, held by the woman whom the king once promised to marry, but abandoned for a woman of noble birth. Can he do it? How will he do it? 

The plot in this one is been what I’ve been waiting for in a Sherlock Holmes story. The plot his is a complete masterpiece. And a part of me wish that it would have been longer so that I would enjoy this story longer.

This one is very interesting, enjoyable and entreating which a Sherlock Holmes should be like. 

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

“The Sign of Four” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman – Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation – which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair – even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, ‘Isn’t it gorgeous!’

This book I need to be honest here and say that it wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be. 

The plot here is okay for the most part but I wish that it could have been better than it actually was. The plot here was enjoyable and interesting but in my opinion there was something missing in it. 

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“A Study in Scarlet” By Arthur Conan Doyle Review

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Our first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. And John Watson’s too! The young doctor is astonished by Holmes’ many idiosyncrasies, including his talents on the violin. But it’s not long before Sherlock Holmes, with Watson in tow, is working with Scotland Yard investigating the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister groups gathering power in both Britain and America.

So this one was the first time ever I read Sherlock Holmes I can’t believe I waited 20 years to read it. It should be a crime to wait so long. Because Sherlock Holmes is the godfather to the deceptive genre which we see now.

The plot here was meh to be fully honest here. It was okay but it wasn’t a mind fuck as I wanted it to be. The plot will give you an enjoyable time reading it and it doesn’t need a lot of brain power because we get the mystery all laid out easily at the end.

The characters here are okay but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson they are an amazing due and I loved they both because they have something in them which makes us relate to them.

The writing style here was okay but I think that sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have done better in this book. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

“The Blue Light” By Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Review

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The original tale is much better but also darker then the version kids see. 

It is different but not that different from what you might remember from first hearing this tale as a kid. 

The plot here are very good but also dark which is the mix which I personally like a lot.

The writing style here was very old and you could feel the vibe of old the Europe which was amazing for me.

I Give This Story 3 / 5

“Through a Glass, Darkly” By Donna Leon Review

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It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Inspettore Vianello come to the rescue of Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti, who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon, only to be faced by the fury of Marco’s father-in-law, owner of a glass factory on the island of Murano.

This book is the 15th book in the Commissario Brunetti Series which is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine because every book in this series is a 2 star book but I still love the series and Ill continue to read it as long as Donna Leon will continue to write to new books to this series. 

The characters in this book are pretty basic and to be honest I don’t care for any of the side characters other than the family of the main character. The reason behind this is because every character here seems so boring and it is hard to tell characters apart. In a way every character in this book feels like they were just meant to fill up the space in a way.

Character Development in this whole series doesn’t in a way. Because if you compare this book with the first book in this series then the main character and every other character in this book is just the same.

The writing style in this book is pretty basic and feels like it was written more for teens rather than for adults. It feels like that because of the very easy language used in it.

This book is good when you want to shut down your brain completely after a long day. Because this book doesn’t need any brain power and the less brain power you use on this book the more you will enjoy it. 

The crime in this book didn’t happen until the second half of this book and to be fully honest the entire crime mystery part of this book had just like 10 pages and the rest of this book was just about the main characters’s side job.

This book has no thrill or suspense and it is so fucking slow. But for whatever reason I still had fun with this book and I’ve enjoyed it.

There is no twist at the end because we sort of see what will happen at the end like 50 pages before the ending. Which pretty much kills the twist at the end. But also the ending just leaves us with a cliff-hanger which annoyed me in a way. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

“Dressed for Death” By Donna Leon Review

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Commissario Guido Brunetti’s hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera – a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death.

Yet again another decent book from the Commissario Brunetti series. Even thou it isn’t the best mystery series I’ve come across, it still managed to drag me in to the universe and I will continue to return to this series.

The mystery here was pretty good and the twist was pretty clear once to came to the middle of this book which really killed the big twist at the end which really annoyed me and it really makes me give a mystery book a low rating when this happens. 

The plot was decent for the most part but there were many moments in this book where the plot focused on other things rather than on the main plot of who killed the victim. Which really annoyed me and it made the book longer than it needed to be. And the plot also felt pretty awkward just because the main character made it super awkward when he was talking to or about transvestites and the entire sex selling industry. Which really annoyed me because we are in 2022 and we should be more comfortable to talk about it now.

The writing style here was petty basic but it in a way fitted in with the rest of the story in a way. But of course it didn’t fit for a mystery novel which this book was in the end. 

This book is in the end a good and light read for bedtime reading right before you go to sleep. This book is good when you don’t use your brainpower on it. 

When you read this book it feels like it was written in like 1950s or something around it and not in 1994. Because this book keep telling us that people who are working in the sex selling industry or just like the rest of us and that everyone need to do something to survive. Which is a very old perspective on it I guess.

I give this book 2 / 5

“Star Wars: Before the Awakening” By Greg Rucka Review

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A companion piece to the “Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens” character novels, Star Wars: Before the Awakening is an anthology book that focuses on the lives of Rey, Finn, and Poe before the events of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

I gotta say that this book was a decent intro book to the new trilogy of Star Wars. I personally don’t like the new trilogy but I liked this book.

This book has 3 different stories in it. One story is from Finn, the second story is from Rey and the last one is from Poe. The first and the last story were very good but the middle one which belonged to Rey really made me want to erase the new trilogy and everything linked with it from existence. Both the first and last story brings more instate to Finn and Poe and makes me but the middle story makes the opposite. It makes me hate Ray more than I already did. 

The characters in this book are a little bit spread a little bit. Leia bad ass as always, Finn and Poe good characters and Rey sucks as always. In this book both Finn and Poe get more to them which makes them more likeable and they backstory gets expanded which I loved. 

This book as action to it but the last story really brings the most exciting action to the table. Finn’s story had good amount of action which I’ve enjoyed. Ray’s story was so boring that it made me want to throw this book into the fireplaces. And Poe’s story was just the best thing ever in this book because there were planes, space travel and a lots of action. 

Ray’s story feels like it is way too long, and it stretch to the point where it makes her entire story more and more boring. Her story doesn’t tell us anything which we already didn’t know about her from the movies. Her entire story told us basically that she lives in a desert, she is a scavenger and that it. 

The writing style here was okay but it felt like this book was written from middle class kids rather than adults fans of the franchise. Of course I didn’t mind that.

I give this book 3 / 5

“The Fellowship of the Ring” By J.R.R. Tolkien Review

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Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

I needed to be honest here and admit that I never watched the Lord of the rings movies. I’ve tried couple of times to watch the first movie but I shouldn’t couldn’t finish it in the end. This fact made me super sceptical to this book and this series because I was expecting that it would happen the same thing as with the movies but to my surprise it didn’t. 

The writing is quite outdated I needed to admit. The old English in this book is so thick and it kept distracting me while I was reading book. But of course this is the thing which happens over time so I can’t trash this book over this.

The plot itself here was good but it really didn’t drag me into it, of course I’ve enjoyed it a good deal but while reading this entire book I felt that something was missing from the plot. 

The thing which annoyed me the most with this book was the songs and poems if you will in every chapter which really made me want to burn this book in the fireplace. These songs and poems were really annoying and distracting for me 

Most of the characters in this book were interesting and super enjoyable but there were some characters which annoyed me. But I’ve liked the main characters in this book.

I personally felt like there should be more action here. The action in the form of a battle with the Orcs and I really wished to see more of them in this book and not just couple of lines about them here and there.

I give this book 4 / 5