Month: Oct 2019

Tunnel of bones – Victoria Schwab review

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4/5 stars

Was so surprised about this read as the first book I wasn’t really a fan and didn’t really connect to the story but this sequel was so gooood, I enjoy this book and found it 10x better than the first book. I felt like the story was so much more improved and felt like such a solid storyline and was more engaged with the characters and especially near the end felt quite emotional with one of the main characters in the books.

Such a great read and very excited about the next adventure these characters embark on and which city or country they visit. One thing that is a bonus is you do learn about a lot of different aspects of history too which is a really cool touch that is added in to the books too.

Overall a amazing surprise of a book and such a quick and easy book to fly through and perfect for so many ages 🙌🏻🙌🏻.

We are the lost and found by Helene Dunbar

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“Happy. And that’s the odd thing. Not being happy, but realising it. Because how often, when you’re happy, do you have the chance to step back and notice?” – we are the lost and found

I started this book right here (we are the lost and found) earlier today and Flew through this book. Ooo what a book this was, such a moving and heartbreaking book set in New York in the early 80s, during the AIDS epidemic. we follow Micheal and his two best friends and how they are struggling with trying to find a place to fit in the world. but especially our main character Micheal who feels he can’t be himself and wants to stay in the shadows and hide the real him especially after his brother Conor was kicked out the house by his parents for being gay. We see throughout this book how tough Micheal is being on the outside but In the inside he just wants to just wants to tell everyone the truth, but he keeps pushing it back and not ready to just yet.

Oh this book was just such beautifully written with amazing characters that you just want to hug and make sure they are okay, when they feel down or lonely. Just reading about the struggles just pull at your heartstrings. The whole book it does feel like a real persons life in one year and feel like your reading someone’s life and how they saw the AIDS epidemic.

Helene did an amazing job with this book and even though I didn’t really know what this book was I was so pleased that I really enjoyed this book, yes this book might not be for everyone in the way it is written but for me I felt it flowed and was such a cool and interesting writing style.

This story has such great character development, a amazing friendship, brothers who try their best to be there for each other and also all the 80s music mixed in.

Oh and of course got to add that the cover is 😍😍

4/5 stars

The Grace year by Kim Liggett

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Approved for a E-ARC on netgalley by the publishers in exchange for a honest review.

Wow Wow Wow this book was amazing and actually came as a shock to me really, because before reading this book I didn’t know anything about it and I had only seen the cover and I was ooo like this cover. So when I started this book and was so suprised by how good this was I was shook to say the least and let me just tell you the world that the author has been written inside this book is amazing but so so terrifying at the same time.

While reading this books you can just visualise so many of the places that the main character goes to and where she lives and I’m so excited that there is going to be a adaptation of this book and hopefully it is done very well because This book deserves it and I highly recommend this as one to be put to the top of your TBR’s.

The characters in this book are awesome and especially the main character, the way she is courageous and never gives up in a world that tells her she shouldn’t do this or do that, she rises above it and always but her life at risk for her family but also friends.

I don’t want to say much more as would like for everyone to experience this book and hopefully everyone finishes reading this book and loves it as much as I did.

This book is a 4.5/5 stars for me and one that is definitely a favourite of the year.

The beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

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Book sent for review by the publishers

Firstly I have to say that this book was really good it isn’t the best book in the world but I enjoyed reading this book. I know that it has been given a few mixed reviews and from reading them I definitely can see where they are coming from… because when I started reading this book I was like woah this is not what I expected it to be like as it was definitely put differently to me through people speaking of the book and synopsis. It wasn’t the perfect book has it definitely has lots of flaws but overall I really enjoyed this book and The main character is a very cool character. A lot different to what I expected but overall I enjoyed it. Throughout the book we get some very awesome scenes between the two main characters and love how badass Celine is and how she doesn’t back down from anything and will show anyone who tests her that they are messing with the wrong woman 🙌🏻🙌🏻.

I’ve got to say I’m very excited for the sequel and feel that it’s definitely going to be better than the first one already especially with how the ending was made and I just need to know what happens next with these characters especially Celine.

One thing that I didn’t really like was I was expecting it to be so much darker and darker, it definitely had its moment of dark but didn’t have much as wanted, with a few scenes I was Like oooo okay this is atmospheric but then it would change back after 10 pages or so to back to how it was before.

As I’ve said before this book was really good and was an enjoyable read, I flew through it so quick and was mostly impressed just had wished it was even darker and more vampire moments as I thought it would be all throughout.

3.5/4 out of 5 stars