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Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
5.0
Okay so this is kinda a summarised review for all the four volumes!!!
Firstly 5 stars is less to describe it!!!
So there we go, this book is perfectly carried out the imperfections of teenagers in my opinion, it starts with Nick and Charlie and meeting and now my babies has confessed their love in volume four!!! But aside from our main characters, the crew is just perfect
Tara's hesitation and fear when she realised she liked girls and Darcy's Chaoticness
Firstly 5 stars is less to describe it!!!
So there we go, this book is perfectly carried out the imperfections of teenagers in my opinion, it starts with Nick and Charlie and meeting and now my babies has confessed their love in volume four!!! But aside from our main characters, the crew is just perfect
Tara's hesitation and fear when she realised she liked girls and Darcy's Chaoticness
The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
3.0
Trigger Warnings - Gore, body horror, violence, death(children and parent), sexual abuse, child abuse, pregnancy, murder, slight sexual content. (animal) bones, immolation, bigotry. Mentioned; leukemia, miscarriage, drugs.
The book started just as it promised to be, giving you the eerie mysterious feel making you feel goosebumps. Plot-wise I have to say it was incredible, the mix of folklore and mythology with the Witch trials conducted in Scotland. Even though the first 50% of the book was a little bit slow-paced except for Luna's but after that, it's action after action and so many things happening at once that it becomes hard to keep the track of the events.
As much as the plot was good, I just didn't fell in love with the characters a lot. The villain characters had more depth and personality to them as compared to the main protagonists.
usually, I love reading multiple povs with timelines since it provides more depths and more mystery in the book. But here it feels muddled up and as if few questions are still unanswered and plot lines that started and had some build-up but then were suddenly left alone.
the pov of sapphire. Okay so sapphire was the best stay sister with so much capability and her inner personality and with a rebellious streak and I did enjoy reading about through pov of different people except her own. I do understand how every teenager is different and so are their actions but Sapphire's inner monologue just felt very stereotypical.
The book started just as it promised to be, giving you the eerie mysterious feel making you feel goosebumps. Plot-wise I have to say it was incredible, the mix of folklore and mythology with the Witch trials conducted in Scotland. Even though the first 50% of the book was a little bit slow-paced except for Luna's but after that, it's action after action and so many things happening at once that it becomes hard to keep the track of the events.
As much as the plot was good, I just didn't fell in love with the characters a lot. The villain characters had more depth and personality to them as compared to the main protagonists.
usually, I love reading multiple povs with timelines since it provides more depths and more mystery in the book. But here it feels muddled up and as if few questions are still unanswered and plot lines that started and had some build-up but then were suddenly left alone.
the pov of sapphire. Okay so sapphire was the best stay sister with so much capability and her inner personality and with a rebellious streak and I did enjoy reading about through pov of different people except her own. I do understand how every teenager is different and so are their actions but Sapphire's inner monologue just felt very stereotypical.