Book Review: The Octopus Curse by Salma Farook

Published: November 1, 2019 Page length: 202 Review: The Octopus curse is a beautiful book of poems dealing with a variety of important topics/issues such as feminism, rape, patriarchy etc. I sincerely thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was so raw and touching. (I actually teared up quite a few times). Salma has done such an amazing job …

Book Review: The 117-storey treehouse

Published: 22 August 2019 Favorite quote: 🌳"Can't" "can" "can't" "can"🌳 (reminded me of fights I still have with my sisters) Page length: 371 Review: I read this whole book in about 45 mins. I'm the kind of person who'd read anything, even a picture book. I just take pleasure in reading.😋 This is a book for kids of …

Book Review: We hunt the flame by Hafsah Faizal

Blurb: People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Nobody knows that Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. If she is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected. Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, …

Book Review: The Dutch house by Ann Patchett

Blurb: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as …

Book Review: The Priory of the Orange tree by Samantha Shannon

Blurb: The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to …

Book Review: The Near witch by V. E. Schwab

Blurb: The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. And there are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when …

Book review: The killing joke by Christa Faust and Gary Phillips

Blurb: A tragic, unnamed engineer-turned-criminal is immersed in chemicals that disfigure him bizarrely, driving him mad and thus giving birth to the Joker. While the insane criminal is imprisoned, Batman and Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) patrol Gotham City together, taking down perps such as the crime boss Maxie Zeus. Simultaneously Detective Harvey Bullock works with Commissioner …

Book review: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Blurb: Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; …

Book review: I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson

Blurb: Jude and her twin Noah are close until a tragedy drives them apart. Now they are barely speaking - and both are falling for boys they can't have. Love's complicated. Favorite quote: "If a boy gives a girl an orange her love for him will multiply." Page length: 429 I was recently gifted this book on …

Book Review: The Wonderling by Mira Bartok

Blurb: Welcome to the Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, an institution run by evil Miss Carbunkle, a cunning villainess who believes her terrified young charges exist only to serve and suffer. Part animal and part human, the groundlings toil in classroom and factory, forbidden to enjoy anything regular children have, most particularly singing and music. …