Book Review
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Some books entertain you. Some books consume you. And then there are books like Alchemised—the kind that hollow you out a little, settle into your chest, and refuse to leave quietly. Going into this, I expected something closer to the romantasy lane I usually gravitate toward. What I got instead was a story that leans
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Somewhere along the way, a 3-star rating picked up an unfair reputation. In the world of bookish discourse, anything less than 4 stars is often treated like a quiet insult. As if a 3-star read is something I endured instead of enjoyed. As if it failed. As if I’m being polite instead of honest. That’s…
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Some books grab you by the throat from page one. Others take their time—curling around you slowly, deliberately, until you suddenly realize you’re fully ensnared. When The Moon Hatched falls firmly into the latter category, and honestly? I loved the experience of sinking into it. When The Moon Hatched unfolds in a richly imagined fantasy
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⭐️⭐️⭐️½ The Secret Courtesan is a novel with big intentions and a clear love for the kind of historical fiction that asks difficult questions about women, power, and who gets remembered. From the outset, Kerry Chaput establishes a richly textured world. One where reputation is currency, silence is survival, and identity is something that can
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5 Stars There are books that entertain, books that distract, and then there are books that reach straight into your ribcage, wrap a fist around your heart, and refuse to let go. The Last Letter is absolutely the latter—a raw, emotional gut-punch baked into a love story that tastes a little like grief, a
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There’s something irresistible about a story that asks what would you change if you could slip back in time? Stephen King takes that question, cracks it open, and lets it bleed across nearly 900 pages in 11/22/63, a novel that surprised me with its warmth just as often as it startled me with its tension.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ (3.5 stars) If the first Dungeon Crawler Carl was a chaotic banquet of absurdity and adrenaline, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario feels like the morning-after buffet—still satisfying, still wild, but a bit slower to refill the trays. Dinniman continues his unhinged blend of humor, brutality, and heart, throwing Carl and his cat companion back into the
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Rated:⭐⭐⭐⭐ Neal Shusterman’s Thunderhead, the second book in the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, doesn’t just continue the story—it escalates it. If Scythe was a philosophical dance with death, Thunderhead is a storm that questions the very meaning of control, morality, and what happens when humanity decides it’s outgrown its gods. Shusterman’s world remains one
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There’s something intoxicating about the idea of a crumbling castle tucked in mist, a forbidden university where the walls remember their ghosts, and a brooding professor whose secrets are as thick as the fog rolling off the cliffs. Gothikana promises all of that—a romance draped in mystery, laced with melancholy—but the execution left me adrift
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5) Some books start like a promise whispered in the dark—sharp, intoxicating, full of danger. Born of Blood and Ash had all the ingredients for a feast: a forbidden romance, a kingdom steeped in secrets, and a heroine caught between duty and desire. But instead of devouring it in one sitting, I found
literary gluttony 