shahanaz's reviews
30 reviews

Dark Justice by Jack Higgins

slow-paced

3.0

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

Holly Jackson's work had me guessing the entire time, trying to piece together evidence while reading. I truly felt like I was investigating with Pippa and Ravi whole they put the evidence into one story that made sense and its excited to me as well.Pippa's determination to prove that Salil  was guilty of the murder of Andie Bell was something I enjoyed seeing. Moving to the story,Pippa Fitz-Amobi grew up in the same small English town that 5 years prior, witnessed the murder of schoolgirl Andie Bell. In 2017, Pippa starts a school project trying to prove that Sal Singh, who was convicted of Andie’s murder, is innocent. She work’s with Sal’s younger brother, Ravi, to uncover the truth of what happened 5 years ago!!!!
Throughout the book Jackson takes serious subjects like murder and suicide and handles them with care, although she also manages to take the edge off them by using humour more over our brains. Despite the humour used to lighten the mood, there are also sections of the book so terrifying that you feel as though you can’t breathe or you’ll disrupt the tension there are so many good plot twists that I couldn't see coming (which usually isn't the case) and it was written in a way where you simply
can't stop reading once you start.

A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore

challenging emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

3.0

This was the first winner of the Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), and I found it very impressive except one part.The story is told from the point of view of Catherine who grows up in a country estate with her brother Rob and their grandfather.Abandoned by her mother as a child, embarrassed by the mental breakdown of her father that led to his hospitalisation and later died.The children are never told exactly what caused their family to splinter apart so they grow to rely solely on each other in this circumscribed world. And their relation grew up unhealthy close. For the most part, this is a beautiful book and a pleasure to read, despite a slightly melodramatic middle part.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Beartown ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The book took me a while to finish
because it's soo hard to
end.Everyone!!! Read this book, I
promise you, it is worthy..TBH
there is nothing i can say about
this book,it's beautiful. it's
heartbreaking.A life without hockey seems like a life nobody wants to live. Every resident in the BT know that they
live and breathe through hockey.
Continuing the story plot through
the hockey players and the
BT ,suddenly having the
traumatizing occurs,the entire
town gets devastated.

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

slow-paced

3.0

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Who Will Cry When You Die? by Robin S. Sharma

informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic work of feminist literature. It
tells the story of a woman who dedcends into madness in an
old mansion, living under her husband's strict rules.
Eventually, she locks herself in her bedroom and obsesses
over the yellow wallpaper.This book, written nearly a hundred and thirty years ago, feels deliciously modern.

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

hopeful medium-paced

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

I picked this book up because it was seeing this book all over insta and I also wanted to try this book that everyone's talking about .The story is about The Evelyn Hugo and her life... How she made it to Hollywood from Hell's kitchen and why did she marry 7 times.This book tells us the very truth of life every one is flawed in some way or the other.Behind the glamorous and luxurious life of Evelyn there was she the flawed person no one knew, she was a best friend, a lover and an amazing mother.