Book Reviews
Even a Non-Football Fan Can Enjoy This One
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Going into Unseen Academicals, I honestly wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. The central focus is football, and as someone…
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A Brilliantly Funny Take on Banking and Human Nature
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ve been slowly working my way through Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and Making Money has easily become one of my favourites so far. What…
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A Story That Never Quite Starts
⭐ There are books that overwhelm you with the sheer volume of events, where every chapter feels like it is trying to outdo the last.…
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A Wintery Return to Tiffany Aching
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ There’s always something a little strange for me when I pick up a Tiffany Aching book. I never dive into them…
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Blood, Screams, and Not Much Else
⭐⭐⭐ I went into Camp Blaze expecting a grimy, over-the-top slasher and, to be fair, that’s exactly what it delivers. Unfortunately, it rarely feels like…
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“WHERE’S MY COW?” — Rage, Revolution, and One of Discworld’s Best Watch Novels
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ve been slowly making my way back through the Discworld books, and every time I return to the City Watch novels, I remember why…
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Science, Survival and Another Trip Across the Stars: Revisiting Project Hail Mary
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another of this year’s re-reads for me, and revisiting Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir felt oddly well-timed considering the film adaptation has recently…
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A Strong Premise That Doesn’t Quite Stick the Landing
⭐⭐⭐ I’m always up for anything involving zombies or virus outbreaks, so The Splits by M.V Clark immediately felt like something right up my street.…
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A Relic Worth Returning To: Pendergast Steals the Show
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ There’s something ridiculously satisfying about going back to a book you already know you love and finding out it still completely holds up—and that’s…
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Cleaning Up After Her
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I went into My Sister, the Serial Killer expecting something a bit louder, a bit more overtly shocking. The title kind of dares you…
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Neither Snow Nor Rain… Nor a Reformed Con Man
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ As part of my chronological read-through of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, I’ve finally finished Going Postal, and I can honestly say it…
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Back to the Jungle: Loving Congo Just as Much the Second Time Around
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I recently went back and re-read Congo, and I’m genuinely surprised by how much I still love it. Sometimes revisiting a book you loved…
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A Big, Dumb, Bloody Good Time (With a Few Cracks Showing)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is my second read-through of Meg by Steve Alten, the first being about ten years ago. Back then, I gave it a full…
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Learning to Be Yourself the Hard Way
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve really been enjoying watching the Tiffany Aching books grow along with the character herself. A Hat Full of Sky feels a bit bigger…
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Marching Against the Absurd
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Monstrous Regiment was next up in my chronological read-through of the Discworld books, and it ended up being one of those moments where the…
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A Scrappy, Sharp-Edged Fairytale
⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ll be honest: this one took me a little while to click with. Not in a bad way, exactly — more that I had…
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Bending Minds and Reality
⭐⭐⭐⭐ I just finished There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, and I have to say, it’s exactly the kind of weird that gets me…
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Judgement Without a Jury
⭐⭐⭐⭐ I went into The Judge’s House expecting a quick, slightly dusty Victorian ghost story, and what I got was something far more quietly unsettling…
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