Category: Fiction
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Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Wings and Ruin
This book has more ups and downs than a fairground roller coaster. If you’d asked me at the start to predict what would happen, I would probably have given you a fairly detailed description. But it would all have been completely wrong. So many shock twists that I’m surprised I didn’t get whiplash. Just as
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J.K. Rowling – The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The last of the three Hogwarts Library books, and book 52 of the year (hooray!). This was my favourite of the three, it felt more familiar to me and seemed exactly like the books of stories I used to read as a child (minus the magic of course). You can definitely imagine that it would
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J.K. Rowling – Quidditch Through the Ages
Yay! Illustrations! The one thing I thought was missing from Fantastic Beasts, it really helped to complete this book. Interspersed throughout, and still only very crude sketches, I was so happy! I know, it probably makes me a child, but if this was supposed to be a proper textbook (as with Fantastic Beasts), one would
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J.K. Rowling – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Considering this has been out for so long and been sitting on my shelf pretty much since it was released, I can’t believe I haven’t read it properly. I think I flipped through it quickly when it was bought, but it didn’t have a ‘read’ date on Goodreads. And since I have 2 days left
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Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Mist and Fury
It’s official. I’m not the smartest person. 3 days to go on my 2017 book challenge and 5 books left to read, and I go and pick a book that’s more than 600 pages long. Unfortunately I think that might have tainted my appreciation slightly as I was so annoyed with myself, but I’ll try
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Sarah J. Maas – Throne of Glass
I think the fact that I started this book 3 weeks ago probably gives you a good idea what I thought of it. It was only 400ish pages long, but it felt like a long hard slog to get to the end. The plot was just really slow and it felt like there was a
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Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Thorns and Roses
I was recommended this book by one of the girls at the youth group I run on a Monday night. She’s only 12 so I had been putting off reading the book as I thought it might be a bit juvenile, but she’d mentioned it so many times that I thought I might as well
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Harry Potter and the Four Week Re-Read
So at the beginning of last month, I realised that I was dreadfully behind on my reading challenge for this year – I wanted to read 52 books but I was stuck at 32. I knew I needed to get a few books under my belt, and what better way than with a Harry Potter
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Leo Tolstoy – Where Love Is There God Is Also
This book was recommended in a sermon by our new Vicar at Church – he said it was a short story by Leo Tolstoy that tied in really nicely with what he was saying and that we should all check it out. I bought it on amazon, and was incredibly surprised when it arrived and
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Brandon Sanderson – The Way of Kings
I think I’m a little bit in love with Brandon Sanderson. Scratch that. A lot in love. I honestly can’t believe that one man could write such epic stories again and again and again and never leave me disappointed. I’d love to see what goes on in his head, blooming amazing! And honestly a genuinely
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Dave Eggers – The Circle
I won’t lie, I decided to read this book because I saw the film on Netflix and that it stars Emma Watson (I love her), and I didn’t want to watch the film before reading the book. I have mixed feelings now that I’ve finished. The concept was great and I was quite excited about
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Evelyn Skye – The Crown’s Game
Another book downloaded through Libby – I’m not sure what drew me to the book other than the mention of magic and the fact that it sounded a bit different to recent fantasy books I’ve read. The premise of the book sounded great, two young enchanters who would have to fight against each other to become
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Marieke Nijkamp – This is Where It Ends
I went into this book with a certain amount of trepidation as I made the mistake of reading the reviews before I started and there were quite a few terrible reviews. But I’d already checked the book out of the virtual library and it was less than 300 pages, so I figured I might as
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Sarah Crossan – One
So Cecilia Ahern’s review on the front of the paperback cover of this book says ‘One broke my heart and mended it’, but that’s a lie. One broke my heart and then stomped it into the ground. Heartbreakingly beautiful is how I would describe this book, narrated by Grace. You see, Grace and Tippi are
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Brandon Sanderson – The Bands of Mourning
It seems like these Mistborn-era books just keep getting better and better. This one was filled with so much drama and so many plot twists that I feel like I’ve read an 800-page saga, not one that’s just over 400 pages. Sanderson has packed so much into such a short book (short for him at
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