Welcome to my weird world!
Maybe books weren’t made to replicate the screenplays for horror movies. I now know Laurie Faria Stolarz has written a ton of other horror stories, but I guess this one is proof that it’s harder than you think to make a jump-scare book. The book grabbed my interest though when I read it a while... Continue Reading →
I now look towards Sabaa Tahir’s series if I need inspiring on how to make the characters in my books frightened and truly “scarred”. A Reaper at the Gates is the third installment in the Ember in the Ashes series. And at the end of the last book, Laia of Serra was finally able to... Continue Reading →
I can't really pick which Ember in the Ashes book is my favourite, this one or the last one, but what I will say is this one is as sad and angry as its ending is absolute perfection. In my review of the last book, I said that young-adult books that follow the traditional dystopian... Continue Reading →
As Sabaa Tahir's final book in this spectacular series is out and I'm going to get it for Christmas, I wanted to upload my past reviews of her books leading up to A Sky Beyond The Storm. So, is this another YA dystopia? That's what I thought at first. But I got over it, almost... Continue Reading →
I read The Toll a year ago when it was first released and I spent an entire month trying to think about my feelings. And my disappointment made me not even excited anymore to write a review. Now, I was disappointed, but not really angry. There have been much huger disappointments I've read in my... Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I reviewed and abhorred Mindy McGinnis' fantasy novel, Given to the Sea, but even when I finished it and rated it zero stars, I still wanted to explore what else she's done. I mean, she has a rep for trying out all sorts of genres, so what kind of critic would I... Continue Reading →
Amy Tintera is one of my favourite authors, because even if one of them really dove head-first into the derivative (the first Ruined), all of her works have destroyed my reading slumps and have given a fast-paced jolt. And both her Reboot duology and Ruined trilogy (still have to read the last one) all had... Continue Reading →
Update for you guys: I'm going to be bringing you guys some of my old reviews, and this is one. It's also an example of when I might become quite harsh. It took me two weeks to finish this book. There have been books I’ve read that have taken about as long, but many of... Continue Reading →
Flawed but beautiful. The path of life brings us love, and so dost cometh rot. I think that's the first haiku I've ever written before, and it could also describe my feelings of this book. Then again...let's face it, that was a pretty terrible piece of poetry. I'm often impatient and want to get on... Continue Reading →
This book's been panned by bloggers, and I hope Adam Silvera can jump back from this setback, especially since he's planned two more books after this. However if he wants to smooth things over, he needs to fill some glaring potholes. Taking place in New York (like other Silvera books), two brothers named Emil and... Continue Reading →
William J. McGinn 