Book Review: Nightstrider

Why is the author making us wait this long for the 2nd book to come out? I want to jump right into it after finishing Nightstrider because I don’t want to break that feeling about being so hyped up about our beloved characters finally smoking the peace pipe (albeit temporarily) and uniting to bring down the accursed conqueror of both the Wake and the Reverie. While it’s not the best among the epic fantasies that littered the genre today, Nighstrider brought a lot of yummy goodness to the table. As one of our characters always say, this book is real…

Book Review: The Last One

So I finally tried listening to my first Audiobook, something that has been on my bucket list for so long but kept on putting off because there is this unnecessary fear that I might not understand the story. As you know, English is not my native language and I have this doubt that I might be wasting my time listening to something that I would not understand because of the accent. Heh. But anyway, I tried because first and foremost, I want to make my walking activities as productive and as less boring as possible. I already mentioned in my…

Book Review: The Winged Tiara

There’s something about the books being published by Thomas Nelson that never could go wrong. The last time I requested an ARC, Storm Siren, from them was probably in 2014 and I really enjoyed the book. So when I went back to Netgalley and saw the ARCs they were offering, I immediately grabbed this one. And just as I expected, The Winged Tiara delivered all the things that I want in a historical romance novel. Two lovable protagonists, an action-packed plot with full of twists, a cozy romance all happening in different quaint places. Our story starts when our heroine,…

Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is no other way to put this, but the Picture of Dorian Gray is tantalizingly despicable. Tagged as horror in Goodreads, I was not prepared that this is even darker than Frankenstein. The reader might at first find comfort at reading the almost poetic prose but as you delve deeper into the story, you will find that it’s almost perverse. How can the writing exude such lyricism when the story is about this boy whose life story is as deplorable as it can be? Can you imagine looking at something so horrid that it’s mesmerizing and that you cannot…