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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
4.0
Growing up i have always heard stories about the Japanese Occupation envading countries in Brunei & Malaysia before the World War II, thanks to my grandparents. This story is set in the location of Malaya (known as Malaysia today). This book had me reminicise the times my grandad would tell me about his days during this time. Below are my fav parts/scenes:
1. Japanese camp (basically every part relating to her sister & what happened to them in the camp)
2. Tatsuji's relationship with his father
3. Tatsuji's airforce scene where his teacher sacrificed himself to save Tatsuji
4. The Horimono tattoo that Aritomo tattooed on the back of Yun Ling from start to finish
5. Yun Ling's relationship with Aritomo
6. Yun Ling's sickness and the irony of wanting to forget and remembering it all
I have to say this book delivers an impeccable literature. Every malay dialect is seamless. Reading this book gave me a 'calming, sereness' vibe into it and at the same time relatively ugly, painfully torturing. Although the author's words are sometimes repititive, overly detailed and not a lot of action coming through especially the first half where for me it was mostly Yun Ling's inside thoughts.
1. Japanese camp (basically every part relating to her sister & what happened to them in the camp)
2. Tatsuji's relationship with his father
3. Tatsuji's airforce scene where his teacher sacrificed himself to save Tatsuji
4. The Horimono tattoo that Aritomo tattooed on the back of Yun Ling from start to finish
5. Yun Ling's relationship with Aritomo
6. Yun Ling's sickness and the irony of wanting to forget and remembering it all
I have to say this book delivers an impeccable literature. Every malay dialect is seamless. Reading this book gave me a 'calming, sereness' vibe into it and at the same time relatively ugly, painfully torturing. Although the author's words are sometimes repititive, overly detailed and not a lot of action coming through especially the first half where for me it was mostly Yun Ling's inside thoughts.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
5.0
That was the best book ive read in 2021. The twist was never ending but the end was even more of a twist. Brilliant. I never would have thought! I couldnt put my book down. I only read it in 2 days.
The Sweetest Oblivion by Danielle Lori
5.0
Aaaahhhh!! My first mafia romance. Ive
read the reviews okay and at first it feels like its too good to be true, the book is totally overhyped. I shouldn't have thought that bc @danielleloriwrites killed this!
0k at first i was pretty turned off with the whole brother-in-law phase. It also has that misogynistic vibe to it - as in the men of Elena's family controlling her and her every move, telling her how to act and to always keep track of her (and that prev lover kind of thing). And of course especially that selfish contract signed UGH! After that passed it was pretty
addicting. I loved the plot, story flow and their chemistry-teasing each other, not knowing what to expect next kinda vibe. I was totally hooked (might risked a few good nights of sleep bc of this). Recommend 1 0/1 0 if ur into mafia anti-hero, passion, angst and dangerous attraction. This was totally a simple read for me. I might have read my fav scenes 2-3 times (guilty as charged haha). Here's my fav scenes:
1 When they first met
2. The back restaurant alleyway
3. First few hours after they got engaged (you know
what im talking about)
3. Basically everything romantic that does not involve
inappropriate thoughts once in a while
4. When Elena wanted to get close to the fbi agent
5. Nonna's personality
I just wished i known more stories about Nicois dark
past about her mother and her papa's killing. And i
wished they get to know each other more in the book
(basically i wanted it to be longer). Other than that its
an amazing read.
"Don't blame me for your psychosis"
"You are my psychosis"
read the reviews okay and at first it feels like its too good to be true, the book is totally overhyped. I shouldn't have thought that bc @danielleloriwrites killed this!
0k at first i was pretty turned off with the whole brother-in-law phase. It also has that misogynistic vibe to it - as in the men of Elena's family controlling her and her every move, telling her how to act and to always keep track of her (and that prev lover kind of thing). And of course especially that selfish contract signed UGH! After that passed it was pretty
addicting. I loved the plot, story flow and their chemistry-teasing each other, not knowing what to expect next kinda vibe. I was totally hooked (might risked a few good nights of sleep bc of this). Recommend 1 0/1 0 if ur into mafia anti-hero, passion, angst and dangerous attraction. This was totally a simple read for me. I might have read my fav scenes 2-3 times (guilty as charged haha). Here's my fav scenes:
1 When they first met
2. The back restaurant alleyway
3. First few hours after they got engaged (you know
what im talking about)
3. Basically everything romantic that does not involve
inappropriate thoughts once in a while
4. When Elena wanted to get close to the fbi agent
5. Nonna's personality
I just wished i known more stories about Nicois dark
past about her mother and her papa's killing. And i
wished they get to know each other more in the book
(basically i wanted it to be longer). Other than that its
an amazing read.
"Don't blame me for your psychosis"
"You are my psychosis"
A Very Accidental Love Story by Claudia Carroll
5.0
First of all i am not a fan of reading romance relating to mother-child bonding type of vibe. Personally, just not my preferred choice of reading. HOWEVER, I absolutely enjoyed this story. The situation humored me how Eloise was desperately trying to reach out to the father of her child after getting an artificial insemination a.k.a from a sperm bank 3 years ago due to her sweet adorable daughter who she love so much asking "where is daddy?" countlessly. Then, finding out that the Iperfect donor' is a fake, an ex-con to be exact. That is when Eloise decided to bet her life on getting this 'perfect donor' get him off his feet and swear Lily, her daughter would meet the perfect father. I love the relationship between them how Eloise helped Jake to get him back on his feet & all that. Without further ado, my fav parts:
1 . Lily the cute adorable daughter & everything she
does
2. Jake's past story
3. Eloise on a mission to find Jake
4. Jake's POV (l wished there were more)
5. That part where Eloise left her job after them
exposing her and Jake out into the media like that.
In conclusion, happy endings are good books too.
1 . Lily the cute adorable daughter & everything she
does
2. Jake's past story
3. Eloise on a mission to find Jake
4. Jake's POV (l wished there were more)
5. That part where Eloise left her job after them
exposing her and Jake out into the media like that.
In conclusion, happy endings are good books too.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
4.0
The amt of times this book has made me dozed off is... too many. Every sentence gives off poetry everywhere, deep quotes everywhere, which no hate to this author, she def delivers. My preference is just more to scenes, events and a few scattered quotes in a book. However, ilm not denying this book is amazing from characters to plots and their stories.
I love our protagonist Addie. She's strong,
independent, stubborn, everything i love in a lady. I also loveeee Luc and Henry. With Lucy i love how they have a long history, the constant feel, their similarities, everytime they meet i scream "admit to each other already!" hahaha. And sweet Henry, who's so lost, who is wandering, who so wants to be loved bc he's not enough breaks my heart and makes me want to give him a big hug.
The first 1 50 pages to me, was a repetitive suffering of Addie's tale which i can understand since the author wanted us readers to connect with her long suffering tho, i was begging not to be repetitive towards the end and ilm so happy that it didnt! after knowing Henry it gets interesting, how he was able to bend that curse. And after i learned the truth of his way, his time, how the devil was playing them both, it broke meeee to piecess (i hate Luc for stealing that precious time he had but i also love him ughh its a love-hate rs). One takeaway of the book which I've realized is that its 100% 'white culture and aesthetic'. Addie was given freedom and the only countries she traveled was limited. Why did the author limit to continents? She could've gone far away and experience new cultures.
Overall, is it overhyped? TOTALLY NOT. its just my preference not to like something poetic
I love our protagonist Addie. She's strong,
independent, stubborn, everything i love in a lady. I also loveeee Luc and Henry. With Lucy i love how they have a long history, the constant feel, their similarities, everytime they meet i scream "admit to each other already!" hahaha. And sweet Henry, who's so lost, who is wandering, who so wants to be loved bc he's not enough breaks my heart and makes me want to give him a big hug.
The first 1 50 pages to me, was a repetitive suffering of Addie's tale which i can understand since the author wanted us readers to connect with her long suffering tho, i was begging not to be repetitive towards the end and ilm so happy that it didnt! after knowing Henry it gets interesting, how he was able to bend that curse. And after i learned the truth of his way, his time, how the devil was playing them both, it broke meeee to piecess (i hate Luc for stealing that precious time he had but i also love him ughh its a love-hate rs). One takeaway of the book which I've realized is that its 100% 'white culture and aesthetic'. Addie was given freedom and the only countries she traveled was limited. Why did the author limit to continents? She could've gone far away and experience new cultures.
Overall, is it overhyped? TOTALLY NOT. its just my preference not to like something poetic
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Raise your arm if u wanted to punch a character so bad. 🙋🏻♀️ Raise your arm if you've cursed at a character with every language possible u know. 🙋🏻♀️ Raise your arm if it also made u love them at the same time. 🙋🏻♀️
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Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
📙 : The Song of Achilles by @madeline.e.miller
⚠️ Spoiler alert!!
This is my first time reading Greek mythology so my knowledge is pretty limited to only Heracles story. This book is honest and raw. The characters are perfectly flawed. At the beginning of the chapters, i love how differently they are treated, both a prince but one is a star and one is a castaway. They learn to grow up and experience and learn new things together but they also fell in love.
Throughout reading this i researched more on Achilles' story and he is known for his arrogance which Madeline also depicts in the book. On the first few chapters Achilles' arrogance is cutely tolerated. The ending is where this personality affected a lot of damaging consequences. His prideful trait, his selfishness which is so great that it happened to affect Patroclus entirely.
And Patroclus' story i love his character. Despite all of Achilles' arrogance, he still cherishes him to the point of sacrificing his own safety. He still cares of what people might think of Achilles in the next future. He wanted everyone to know who Achilles was to him, how tender he was, his sweet personality that ppl didnt know. And he was thinking of all of those things without prioritizing him first. To me, he is brave, he is loved tho not known by fame. I also love his ending with Achilles' mother. There are scenes where i was mad at him esp what happened btwn him and Deidamia. Like gosh im so confused but thats abt it. 😂
Let's not even talk about Pyrrhus bc he was so annoying. This is when i started cursing in every language possible. Overall amazing book love madeline miller! I'll put Circe on my TBR pile.
😭😭😭
Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
📙 : The Song of Achilles by @madeline.e.miller
⚠️ Spoiler alert!!
This is my first time reading Greek mythology so my knowledge is pretty limited to only Heracles story. This book is honest and raw. The characters are perfectly flawed. At the beginning of the chapters, i love how differently they are treated, both a prince but one is a star and one is a castaway. They learn to grow up and experience and learn new things together but they also fell in love.
Throughout reading this i researched more on Achilles' story and he is known for his arrogance which Madeline also depicts in the book. On the first few chapters Achilles' arrogance is cutely tolerated. The ending is where this personality affected a lot of damaging consequences. His prideful trait, his selfishness which is so great that it happened to affect Patroclus entirely.
And Patroclus' story i love his character. Despite all of Achilles' arrogance, he still cherishes him to the point of sacrificing his own safety. He still cares of what people might think of Achilles in the next future. He wanted everyone to know who Achilles was to him, how tender he was, his sweet personality that ppl didnt know. And he was thinking of all of those things without prioritizing him first. To me, he is brave, he is loved tho not known by fame. I also love his ending with Achilles' mother. There are scenes where i was mad at him esp what happened btwn him and Deidamia. Like gosh im so confused but thats abt it. 😂
Let's not even talk about Pyrrhus bc he was so annoying. This is when i started cursing in every language possible. Overall amazing book love madeline miller! I'll put Circe on my TBR pile.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, War