Tag: Fantasy Book Reviews

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Oh my god, this book was amazing. It really gave the biggest nostalgia to childhood and the books I used to read back then. This book has adventure, danger, good characters and basically all you want in all a good fantasy book. 

This book and the plot of it gives the biggest Harry Potter and x-men combined vibe. Because this book involves friends, kids with special abilities and adventure feeling to it. This book is also mysterious, weird in a sense and intriguing.

The beginning of it started big but then after like 25 pages it went boring and then the it got back up to the interesting and enjoyable part on the last 1/3 of this book.

The characters here feels like real human beings. And the characters in this book feel like I wouldn’t have any problems with getting along with them which doesn’t happen often for me in fantasy books.

90% of all the characters in this book are children or teenagers, and we get to follow the plot through eyes of a teenager and it somehow made this entire book and plot more interesting.

The plot here is super mysterious at the first 1 / 3 of this book and we as readers don’t know what’s happening. But then as the book continues we learn more and more until we eventually fall in love with this book. 

The plot in this book is very unique and different. Which really made me love this book much more.

In this book we also get illustration or rather old pictures which add even more to this book. Which really adds more unique feeling to this book.

The writing style in this book was very easy and it really didn’t take a lot of brain power to enjoy it.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for.

Ive heard so much good about this book which it didn’t live up to which really had disappointed me because I really wanted to like this one as well. 

I need to be honest that I was bored the entire time I spend reading this book which really made it to a torture. Of course there have been many good moments in this book which made me slightly interested but these moments came very going to an end every time they showed up.

In my opinion there were too many descriptions in this book which really made it even more boring for me. But also the most annoying thing with this book for me was he way Paul’s mom describing him because it was super weird and somehow uncomfortable at times. 

This book feels horribly outdated when you read this book for the first time in 2020s as I did. This book was also at times almost incomprehensible.  The reason why I say that this book is outdated is because it is prim and  the scientific dialogue in this book are so heavy that makes you realise very quick that no one would ever actually speak like that now. 

The reason why I give this book 2 stars and not 1 star is because that this book is the foundation for the modern science fiction in a way. 

The beginning of this book was very good but the further we went into this book the worse it got and it ended up that I just DNF-ed this book when I was 68 pages from the end because I just couldn’t do it anymore. 

The writing style here was very old and you can clearly see that it was written over 50 years ago to say at least 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor, guided by the treacherous creature Gollum, in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.

This book is good, very good but it also have many shitty and draggy description and it is mixed with very slow moments which felt like a huge waste of space in a way. 

There was a lot of action in this book but it felt like it was extended too much in a way which really made be uninterested in it because it was dragged out too much and every detail in this book was described too much for me at least. 

This book was dull and hard to follow most times which really made me uninterested in this book. 

The plot was okay here, there was even a little love triangle there which I liked a little bit. I feel like the plot was a decent plot but it could have been better because I had a really hard time trying to connect with the plot. And the plot itself had many moments were it was simple boring and uninteresting. 

Of course J.R.R. Tolkien had finished the amazing series on a high note which we need to give him credit for. The end of this trilogy was satisfying but as I’ve said above it could have been better if it was shorter. 

The characters were very good and I loved them all. But too be honest the character development felt for me like it didn’t exist because they were making the same mistakes in this book as they were doing in the first book. 

The writing style here was amazing it really felt like it was the hight of every fantasy book. Which really made me give this book some extra points. 

The ending was pretty much 2 chapters too long at least and it really felt like torture finishing this book because of these 2 last chapters. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin – alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.

This second book in the Lord Of The Rings is even better than the first book, it really surprised me in a very good way, The plot keeps getting better and better in a way in this fucking series which I’m a huge fan of. 

The plot in this book, there is so much happening in it and there is so much action in it which makes hard in a way to put words to it. The plot in this book is so amazing that I don’t have words to describe it. Of course some of it might be outdated when you look at when this book was first released but still its a pure masterpiece. 

The writing style here is of course very old and it has so much old English in it but still it sort of sett more mood into the entire story which really speak for itself. But also the writing style was so fucking good that it sucked me into the story and I just couldn’t stop reading it.

Helm’s Deep was so fucking good but so god damn short. Why? Really I wouldn’t mind spending at least 20 minutes reading about the Helm’s Deep. But Helm’s Deep isn’t the only epic adventure in this book nor this series which makes this book and the entire series so good. 

The character in this book are so well done and they feel like they are real and not just fictional characters. And the development which happens with all of the characters is so great in this series. It feels like every character in this series has an important role to play which I also love. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

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

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

The fifth book in the “A song of ice and fire” series done and the time to wait for more books in this series have began for me as well. 

This book gotta be the weakest book in the “A song of ice and fire” series so far. Because it has all the characters I less care about. I love Tyrion but we don’t get much from him in this book. And even thou I am team Targaryen I hate Daenerys there is something about her which always made me dislike her.

The plot in this book is okay but I have had big expectations for this book as for the previous books in this series which this book didn’t live up to. The plot in this book was less engaging than in the previous books in this series, and there were couple of chapters which felt like they were written just to make this book longer. Of course this book have had some very good moments but also it have had some bad moments which were on the edge of annoying me in a way. 

The main reason why I’m so big “A song of ice and fire” fan is because the politics in the series and this book had more drama in it than politics which is okay but it could have been better if there were more politics in it. 

Another thing which annoyed me here is that we get a lots of Daenerys but only like 15 pages about dragons which are pretty much at the very end. Daenerys is a Targaryen and Targaryens have dope dragons and are the best fucking house in this series. Targaryens have something for me which makes them the number 1, but Daenerys doesn’t live up to it. She feels like a kid who tries to be a queen but has no idea what she is doing which makes me hate her as a stand alone character and this book gives more of this aspect of Daenerys which I hate as you already know. 

The characters here felt less fun, engaging and interesting in this book than in the previous 4 books in this series which was the main reason why I rated this book so low when you compare it with the rest of the books in this series. The characters in this book gave me the feeling that George R.R Martin stoped caring about them and that he just wanted to write this book to cash in a little bit. 

However I loved that we got more of the Many-Faced God which is one of my favourite things in the “A song of ice and fire” series. To be honest the Many-Faced God and the temple of Many-Faced God was he best thing about this book for me. And it was the main reason why I continued to read this book to the end despite the fact that there were a lots of things which I didn’t like about this book.

The writing style here was very good. It was on the level with the rest of the books in this series which I appreciated probably the most. 

I give this book 5 / 5 

Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow’s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.

I gotta say that this series gets better and better. Which really is a rare thing when it comes to series. I need to admit that this book is my favourite so far in this series. 

The plot is just wow. In this book the whole plot of the series gets more complex. When it comes to the book for itself then there is more drama in it, there is more backstabbing, there is more trauma, there is more deaths, there is more interesting character. The plot gets very good here and you forget everything else when you are reading this book. Because there is the huge game of thrones going on but there is also weird weather stuff happening like snow in the south where the snow didn’t been round since the last dragons has been seen. The plot of this book is only about few characters which are Cersei, Jaime, Sam, Sansa, Arya and Brienne. And all of theirs stories are linked to each other in a way or another which for me makes it to the best book in this series so far. 

The characters in this book. Gets even more into them, they feel more like real human beings. And they make better and wiser decisions. After reading this book I need to say that I began to love Cersei as a characters. Jaime also becomes so much more likeable when he is away from Cersei which makes it to the best character development in the history of literature. Every major character in this book has so much character development from the first book that you will be blown away.

The ending in this book leaves on a cliff hanger but it also is so satisfying and epic which really made me forget the cliff hanger and just made me more excited to pick up the next book in this series. 

The only thing which I didn’t like about this book is that Tyrion wasn’t in this book. Tyrion was mob favourite character in this series so not getting his part of the story in this book really pissed me off here. But this book made Jamie my second favourite character and Cersei became my 3rd favourite character in this series. So you might say that this book made a lots of changes for me.

Read this book assured me that “A Song Of Ice And Fire” is the best fucking book series ever written and probably no series in the future will ever beat this. This series is a classic at this point. 

I give this book 5 / 5

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords.

This one is the third book in the famous “A Song Of Ice And Fire” series. Which is the fantasy series which everyone should read before they die. 

The plot here is so fucking good that there aren’t any words to describe it in a good way. In this one we have the “Red Wedding” which for me is the most epic moment in all fantasy history ever. The plot here is so deep and easy to connect with that it will take you to a whole new world and you will forget everything around you will you read it. 

Because of the plot this book might be the best fantasy book I’ve read so far at least, which really speaks for itself here don’t it?

The more books you read in the “A Song Of Ice And Fire” series the more the plot gets deeper and deeper but also better and better. Which makes it to the best fantasy series so far for me at least. 

There are so much happening in this book that it won’t keep you uninterested, which makes this book as this whole series to a masterpiece. 

The twist in this book are the best twist I ever read or seen in any fantasy book or movie. Which really says a lot don’t it? This book has endless amazing twist which really made my day every time I’ve read this book.

The writing style seems to improve with every book in this series. And the writting style in this book is just so fucking good which makes this whole book come to live in your head and you can see everything which is happening in this book.

The character here are getting better and better. But also the original characters get fewer and fewer. Which makes this book so traumatising because you connect with all the major characters in this book and when they die you just want to continue reading this book. 

I give this book 5 / 5

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. 

Another amazing, awesome, incredible and beautiful fantasy book. This one is the second part in the “A song of ice and fire” book series. I gotta be honest here and say that this second book is less impressive than the first book in this book series but none a less it is still fucking brilliant.

This book has a lot to live up to and it doesn’t disappoint the reader. Which in my opinion is very good because when it comes to book series it tends to go down the hill after the first book but it doesn’t happen yet with this book series which im really thankful for because if the rest of the series is so good as the first two books then it might be my all time favorite book series.

The character are so awesome, they feel so fucking real. And every single character is so different from the rest which makes this book and whole series so unique as it is. Every character in this book has depth to them, they have characteristic which are unique only to them. Every character have things which they don’t like and like. As I’ve already said every character in this book feels like real human beings because there are so much into them. 

The writing style here is also as impressive as the characters. Because the writing style is so good that the pages fly past when you pick up the book and you will be siting for hours and hours reading this book without even noticing it. The writing style makes you seeing these things in your head which you are currently are reading about.

The plot in this book is just amazing. There is love, there is drama, there is death, there is the unknown, there is betrayal, there are big families who are fighting for the throne, there are friends, there are enemies, there are lover, there is intrigue, there is fighting, there is power struggle and there is so much more. When there is so much things in a book you just can’t help yourself but love it.

There is also history in this book of what was going on before the current events in this book and before the events in the first book. Whenever there is so much history in a book, how could you not love it ? Because most of the fantasy books now on days doesn’t have that aspect which this series so far has. 

This book also needs to get extra points for being a page-turner. The main reason why I didn’t get into this series sooner is because the size of ever book has always scared me. But after getting into this series I’ve resized that this series (at least so far) is a page turner which really helps because every book in this series is huge. But since it is a page turner you don’t really feel the size of every book because the pages go so fast by.

The dialogs between the characters in this book is also important to mention so here it is. The dialogos here are pretty good but some of them felt little bit off and unnatural but there are few of them. It takes couple points away from the rating but nothing major. 

I give this book 4 / 5