Book Review: The Story Spinner

Objectively speaking, there’s no way that Storyspinner could have earned a four star rating from me.  The grounding still needs work, the world building insufficient, some of the characters are underdeveloped and the plot simplistic. But Becky Wallace’s storytelling hit all the right spots for me so I wasn’t able to stop myself from being generous.  I didn’t regret giving away my four stars. Storyspinner immediately hooked me from beginning to end.  I couldn’t remember a single moment that I got bored or getting annoyed about this or that.  2015 made for a lot of disappointing reads that reading Storyspinner…

Book Review: The Eternity Key

The Eternity Key was a disappointment compared to its predecessor, Into The Dark, which actually managed to be one of my best reads in 2013. I was surprised that The Eternity Key bored me to no end. Objectively, it’s not a bad book.  But then, how do you define a book that spent most of its time searching nonsensically for the Key of Hades and the compass? Add the fact that I had to wade through a lot of unnecessary internal monologue of our main characters that it was exhausting. And then, out of the blue, Tobin, one of the…

Book Review: The Shadow Prince

OMFG! The Shadow Prince is another book that had me reeling in the world of awesomeness.  I was actually ashamed by the fact that I went into it with a pre-conceived notion that it’s going to be another crap mythos. Can’t blame me because just months ago, I was unfortunate to read another Greek myth based novel entitled Silent Echo. What’s worst is the fact that this book is also about a singing heroine which is so reminiscent of Portia, the heroine of Silent Echo.  I thought I was in for another hellish ride but was so relieved that The…

Book Review: Frozen

I should have listened to Queen Elsa’s Let It Go when I was reading this dreadful book because as I went deeper, the story just got crazier (in the most negative way possible).  I should have let it go when I was still at 30% because it was the most terrible book I’ve read after Journey to Rainbow Island.  The only redeeming quality that Frozen has is that it was so ridiculous I could not stop myself from laughing every time I turn a page.  What ever happened to the saying that two heads are better than one? Apparently, that…