I saw the advertisement for the TV show for this book, and I seem to recognize the main actress, so when I saw the book in Kindle, I thought I would give the book a read. Such a superficial reason, right? Yes, lately I seem to choose books to read based on what I see,…
It’s been a long while since I read a book from Stephen King, and although I liked and respected his writings, I can’t get in much with the horror themes for most of his books. This book has some ‘scary’ part but for the most part of it, it is a mix of fantasy, fiction…
I’ve just finished reading the first book from the Wheel of Time and it was a disappointment. I went to read the reviews to find a confirmation bias, and sure enough when I filtered the one star reviews, I found some that agreed my view, that the book was too bogged down in details. There…
I feel cheated. I thought at first this was a war story, but then it became a love story, before in the end it becomes a whole mess of loose ends. It is a great book though and it has a great story with complex events and characters, especially more interesting as it shows a…
This is a review of the trilogy, covering the three books. Don’t get me wrong, the books are both short, but I am a bit lazy and I don’t think I need to write three reviews for the trilogy. The books tell the story of Arthur and his knights, in a ‘realistic’ way. I say…
I came upon this book which was on sale on Amazon Kindle for just GBP0.99. It had 40,000 reviews which means it must be read by a lot and hence it is famous. I flipped through the ‘read me’ feature and I was reading through the first few introduction, I felt that the story was…
At the end of last year, I set a reading challenge/aim to read 54 books in 2023. This was based on my logic that I could read and finish one book each week, which accumulates to roughly 52 books yearly. Just for fun, I added two more books to that and it became a target…
I like Lee Child’s writing. The sentences are short and curt and the dialogue are quite smart, without being too scripted. The book seems real enough. The problem is however with the storyline. Spoiler Alert. Jack Reacher is supposedly roped in to ‘help’ FBI with an investigation, where the serial killer targets ex-army who suffered…
A Jack Reacher series. I really like the first book, where the author, Lee Child, introduced a no-nonsense character that’s willing to bend things to uphold ‘justice’. That character was Jack Reacher. He was also methodical and thorough, always taking precautions and stacking odds on his side. It was entertaining and in certain ways, insightful….
This is the second book in the series, and I must say that I am looking forward to reading the others. Bernard Cornwell, the author, is slowly becoming one of my favourite author. As per my previous review, this book follows similar formula like Cornwell’s other series, the Kingdom, but the book still make you…
