Category: Reading Challenge
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Review: Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
4/5 ☕ | When you’re used to reading fast-paced books with big characters and bigger endings, reading a quiet book like this would feel like a shock to the system. For me, reading Strange Weather in Tokyo has been a welcome change – a sudden stop: to breathe and slow down.
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Review: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo
4/5☕ | The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a breathtaking feminist fantasy novella that starts out quietly and will treat you with great emotional payout right at the finish line.
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Review: Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
6/5 ☕ | Words of Radiance is a brilliant follow-up to a first book that already delivered on all fronts to an astonishing level – cementing The Stormlight Archive series as one of my favorite fantasy series of all time.
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Review: What To Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman
4/5 ☕ | It has taken me years to read this book without choking up. And though I still feel that unmistakable emotion bubbling up, it’s now faint enough for me to actually finish this book without feeling bad about life. If there’s anything I regret, it’s that I should’ve let myself read this sooner.
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Review: The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez
5/5 ☕ | I feel like this is one of those books that I won’t forget for a time. Read this book. But be prepared and please bring tissues with you – because it would definitely make you an emotional mess. As it did to me.
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Review: The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2) by Roshani Chokshi
5/5 ☕ | The Silvered Serpents is a solid outing by Roshani Chokshi and a strong sequel for such a fantastic series helmed by The Gilded Wolves. This book is emotional and gripping at the same time – something that so few stories have managed to achieve at such a flawless degree.
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Reading Diary: 13 Thoughts I Had While Reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time War
This is a collection of my notes, important highlights and little entries I had in my journal while reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s breathtaking epistolary novella, This is How You Lose the Time War.
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Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
5/5 ☕ | This is How You Lose the Time War is the sort of book that comes one-in-a hundred for me. This book was heartbreaking in its beauty. And let me tell you why.
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Review: The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1) by F.C. Yee
4/5 ☕ | The Rise of Kyoshi is necessary reading for all fans of the Avatar universe. You would think that that we wouldn’t be able to frame an Avatar background story in a new light anymore – but F.C. Yee managed to expand the Avatar lore effectively.
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Review: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5/5 ☕ | If you are a fan of Gothic stories and decadent horror, this is definitely for you. If you are down for a slow, morbid journey filled with intrigue and dark secrets, you will definitely relish reading this. I am not a fan of either (for personal reasons) but I unexpectedly enjoyed this…
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