Book Review: The Year of the Knife

This review has long been overdue, my bad. I requested the Year of the Knife’s ARC from Netgalley around 2017 and then, life happened. I had an oversight, forgot to download it, and yup, affected my Netgalley review rating. As an OCD, it irks me that I have pending ARCs and the math is not mathing. Heh. So here I am, writing this review. Yep, I have to buy the e-book in order to read the book. Fortunately, despite the obscurity of Year of the Knife, I found it entertaining. I was already hooked as early as the first page…

Book Review: Sanctuary

Oh, Roman! Regardless of how sexy and gorgeous you are, I am cringing and laughing at you the whole time I was reading this book. How can you do that to the poor girl? And Ilona Andrews, how dare you write Roman’s Chronicles in novellas when you could have written his adventures in a full book? If you don’t know yet, I have followed the writing of Sanctuary in Ilona Andrew’s blog. Every week, I’d set a reminder to tell me that oh, it’s that time of the day when I must visit their blog and read one chapter of…

Book Review: The Wolf Den

I am not sure how to review The Wolf Den because my knowledge about Italy’s history is very little. I must admit that choosing this book amongst the TBR pile was a result of getting convinced by one of the book bloggers I’ve been following for a very long time. The thing that really caught my interest was the synopsis for it literally spelled out that the story would be following the life of a prostitute.  So I said, sign me up for this. It’s not every day that you get to come across a historical, non-erotica book which tackles…

Book Review: The Hurricane Wars

I never knew that this book existed until I downloaded the eARC of Monsoon Rising from Edelweiss. My bad for not reading the synopsis properly because if I had, I would have known that Monsoon Rising is already the 2nd book of The Hurricane Wars series. So anyway, off I went and bought a digital copy of this book so I could go into Monsoon Rising knowing what the whole story is all about. The Hurricane Wars follows the story of two protagonists who are rivals due to the circumstances of their birth: Talasyn and Alaric. On the first page…