Book Review: This Girl’s A Killer

Can I just say that you don’t need many friends in this life, that you only need the ones who truly matter? And I think Cordelia Black belongs to the latter category. I need a friend like her in my life. Thank heavens for allowing me to encounter This Girl’s a Killer in Netgalley. It’s just what I need after what’s been happening in my country right now, what with all the heinous crimes happening. You just want someone who can make a difference. Cordelia Black, our heroine or anti-heroine whichever you want to look at it, is a sassy,…

Book Review: Voice Like A Hyacinth

As soon as I finished Voice Like A Hyacinth, I immediately went into a contemplative mode. I truly wondered whether I read this book wrong because it did not seem like neither a horror nor a thriller story. It’s more of a psychological story told by lesbians whose friendship was really weird. In Voice Like A Hyacinth, we follow the story of passionate art students Jo, Saz, Caroline, Finch, and Amrita who are not only lesbians but also whose friendship is as weird as they come. Perhaps, artists and their relationships are really eccentric. As the story constantly tells us,…

Book Review: Among The Burning Flowers

Through the years, I’ve always been planning to pick up Samantha Shannon’s The Bone season series due to a lot of raving reviews from my fellow book bloggers. But such plan was forgotten after life got in the way and my other hobbies took over. Fortunately, in this year of 2025, fate has other plans for me, and I came across this ARC while I was browsing the Netgalley titles. It was not the author’s name that caught my attention at first but that lovely cover had me giddy and so when I checked it out, the giddiness became an…

Book Review: Crueler Mercies

Wow. That was quite a wild read. For a standalone fantasy, I did not expect that Crueler Mercies would really live up to its title, Crueler Mercies. Get it? After finishing it, I was reeling about the different kind of emotions it provoked. On one hand, I enjoyed it a lot since there was a lot of gore involved, no mercy from our characters, it’s a standalone, and of course, the plight of our heroine, Princess Vittoria. On the downside, however, there were a lot of glaring flaws that hindered me from thoroughly savoring the whole book with gusto. Before…