envy7sins's reviews
49 reviews

This book certainly lives up to what its often called; nonsense, pffff. The characters also felt real rude and mean for no reason. Can't say I was a huge fan of this one, what a weird read.

I didn't realize at first that this was the 3rd book in the 'Three Musketeers' trilogy (Of which I hadn't read the first two), so it took a while to understand all the characters. Despite that, Dumas is definitely one of my favourite authors, and this book is another great book from him! Though the book is barely about 'the man in the iron mask', instead concluding the life stories of the famous three (four?) musketeers, haha.

This is a book made up of many individual authors' stories. To be honest, I found many of the stories to be difficult to follow, maybe just being too abstract for me personally. But there were a few that I enjoyed reading, particularly 'Lulu', 'Little Eucalyptus Leaves' and 'After the disaster, before the disaster'.

I thought the concept of this book was super interesting, but unfortunately I found the protagonists to be kiiinda unlikeable. They really meddled too much...

I absolutely love the worldbuilding so far! The variety of different dragon species is fascinating, plus I love a good 'prophecy' story. I think the most interesting dragon type for me has gotta be the Rainwings, being chameleon-like with colour-changing abilities. I'm excited to continue this series and learn more about each dragon species.

This was my first Stephen King book, chosen purely at random with no prior knowledge about Stephen King (nor having seen any of his movies), and I gotta say, this one became a real page-turner by the last 10-ish chapters. When everything finally clicked, and even the title of the book suddenly made so much sense... It was a great read!

“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

This book gave me a lot to think about when it comes to life. It was a sad, melancholic story that both inspired and depressed me.

I really enjoyed this book, it was one of those books that felt like it contained a massive story in such a small little book. I particularly liked the character development of the main character Bastian, it was interesting and very thought provoking. I also really liked the wide range of creatures that inhabited the world of Fantastica.

As an Australian, I can't say I have much background knowledge in American history aside from the VERY basics, so when I saw this book, I thought it sounded like a very interesting read. It turned out to be a difficult and eye-opening story on just how people of colour were treated in America. The book certainly didn't hold back in using vivid descriptions on just how bad life was for people back then, and for that, I'm glad I read the story of Cora.

I had this book as assigned reading when I was in Year 11 of school, but of course never read it properly, so when I saw it in the local library I thought I should give it another chance. I'm glad I did. I enjoyed watching the main character, Amir, grow and learn from his mistakes (eventually). It was also really interesting learning a little about the culture of 1970's Afghanistan.