I say this every year, but I can’t believe it’s that time of the year again where we choose our favourite reads of the year (check out Jenna’s favourite books of 2021)! This was the year where I picked up many highly anticipated high fantasy reads on my TBR, and even gave ones that I […]
This year has flown by so quickly for me, despite spending a good 5 months in hard lockdown. Thankfully it meant that I had a lot of time to read (and I actually did use the time to read, unlike last year). This year, I also managed to complete my Goodreads goal of 100 books […]
The Good Things: The second book in Sherry Thomas’s YA historical fantasy series, The Elemental Trilogy, and a fantastic sequel. There are so many things I want to gush about. What I’m most pleased about is the fact that The Perilous Sea actually did an amnesia plotline well! I’m usually frustrated when an amnesia trope […]
The Good Things The first book in a YA historical fantasy series and a reread for me! I first read this back in 2014. It’s filled with some of my favourite fantasy tropes: a chosen one/ prophecy, elemental magic, a big evil, a world with brewing rebellion, and characters in disguise. I loved the magical […]
I was extremely hesitant to pick up A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem because it has a pretty low rating on Goodreads. Like 3.43 stars low (at time of writing this review). But I’m really glad I did because I highly enjoyed it. My favourite part of A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem was definitely […]
The Good Things Hello, my name is Bec and I have a book hangover thanks to this novel. It’s a YA standalone thriller. A historical fantasy/ supernatural thriller actually, which I didn’t realise until I was a few chapters in. This is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read. Most supernatural things in books […]
Ahhh I loved The Heart Principle so much! This is definitely my favourite of the series so far. Anna and Quan are the sweetest couple ever, despite having so many things in their way, like Anna being in a relationship with another guy! Reading some of Anna’s thoughts regarding people pleasing, masking real self in […]
The synopsis of The Donut Trap reminded me a lot of A Pho Love Story, which is one of my favourite books of this year. Both books feature Asian-American characters who work at their family’s food business and a forbidden romance with another Asian-American character. But when I finished listening to The Donut Trap, that was really where […]
After reading and loving A Curse So Dark and Lonely, I was excited for a brand new fantasy series by Brigid Kemmerer. Even though it references a deadly plague spreading through the kingdom, and the cure distributed on the black market – something that eerily reflects the current environment we live in of COVID19. There’s just […]