I really enjoy books that explore how a significant or traumatic event that happens during childhood can impact the rest of your life (re: My Dark Vanessa, The Mothers, The Outcast). I particularly enjoy ones containing multiple perspectives and time jumps that allow you to see how different characters change with age and how they … Continue reading True Story by Kate Reed Petty – Review
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was a hugely anticipated release for me (I think itโs the only time Iโve ever actually pre-ordered a book). I reread the original The Hunger Games trilogy in April and still loved them just as much as I did back when I first read them as a teenager. I … Continue reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins – Review
Sound Perfect Whatever is part memoir and part guide to music from the year 2016. It comes after a disastrous year Acaster had in 2017 where he turned to discovering as much music from 2016 as possible to cope. He was obsessively listening to the best and the most obscure records from the year before … Continue reading Sound Perfect Whatever by James Acaster – Review
"๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ช๐ต๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ด, ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ... ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ."โฃโฃThe Haunting of Hill House follows Dr Montague and his assistants, Eleanor, Theodora and Luke as they stay in the infamous Hill House for the summer to study its happenings. They begin to experience things they cannot … Continue reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson – Review
When Lucia's younger sister Mara is found alive nineteen years after going missing as a child, the family's life is turned upside down. Lucia is the only family Mara has left after their parents passed away years before her return, and so Lucia and her husband, Damian, take her in. Damian isn't too sure it's … Continue reading His Wife’s Sister by A.J. Wills – Review
"๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ด๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ง๐ต ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐บ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ."โฃโฃโฃโฃโฃโฃCeleste Ng's debut novel was a mystery/domestic thriller like no other I've read before. It's quite slow paced compared to … Continue reading Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng – Review
"Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project." Two boys and their father dealing with the sudden death of their mother are visited by Crow - who is a part therapist, part poltergeist figure who has unexpectedly invited himself into their lives. Crow visits … Continue reading Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter – Review
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo is the seventh Detective Harry Hole novel. I haven't read any previous works by Nesbo, but like many detective series, this didn't have that much of an affect on my reading experience. References to previous novels and characters didn't take away from the story all that much and The Snowman … Continue reading The Snowman by Jo Nesbo – Review
Romanov is a magical take on the story of the execution of the Romanov family of Russia. I'm not at all familiar with the history of Russia so I can't comment on the accuracy of Brandes' retelling. Our protagonist, Anastasia, is on a journey to escape her family's executioners and find, Dochkin, the spell master … Continue reading Romanov by Nadine Brandes – Review
Welcome to my first monthly wrap up! December saw me getting back into the swing of things in terms of my reading, probably thanks to the end of term and not really having much else to do. December's stats Books read: 5 Pages read: 1,510 Favourite book: Normal People by Sally Rooney Least favourite book: … Continue reading December 2020 Wrap Up
