2025 Audiobook Challenge

Hi. This post might be a tad late but since I’m already getting more and more confident with my English listening skills, I finally decided to join Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About’s 2025 Audiobook Challenge.   Challenge Details Runs January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. You can join at any time. The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2025 than you did in 2024. Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.) All genres count. Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges…

Book Review: To Bargain With Mortals

What a dazzling read this book is. I am so glad that I took a chance on To Bargain With Mortals despite the fact that I haven’t read anything about the author and the premise seems like the usual fantasy trope of girl-of-destiny.  But as I have mentioned in my previous reviews, I can put up with familiar fantasy tropes as long as executed well and To Bargain With Mortals has just done that.  It’s not perfect but every page was perfect for me. Inspired by colonial India, R.A. Basu’s To Bargain With Mortals follows the story of Poppy Sutherland,…

Book Review: When He Was Wicked

Ah…. It has been so long since I read the first book of the Bridgerton series and it is still surreal to me that I am already writing review for the 6th book in the series. Yes, I know that it took me a long time to get here…to get to this point but hey, I’m here right now. Honestly, I was already resigned to the fact that the Bridgerton Series would be another statistics to my ever growing pile of unfinished series but look at that, two more books and I’ll be saying goodbye to our beloved Bridgertons. Do…

Book Review: Neverwhere

Prior to reading Neverwhere, I have already read several Neil Gaiman books and it’s prolly obvious by now that I immensely enjoyed all his works. As of this review, there’s no single Neil Gaiman book that I did not like and I’m glad that Neverwhere would not be the first time. As with the other Gaiman books, Neverwhere has that same whimsy, quirky and yet, profound vibe that are so familiar yet novel with Gaiman’s stories.  How does Neil do it? Being able to weave a lot of stories without losing the individual magic of each one.  Neverwhere was somewhat…