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January 13, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: The Rogue Knight

I am not sure if I am outgrowing Middle Grade books or Brandon Mull is losing his touch. I can still remember how the Fablehaven series (my first Brandon Mull series) hooked me to the point that I sacrificed many a good night’s sleep just to finish the five books as soon as possible. And after that, find myself rereading the whole series after two months. That didn’t happen to me with the Five Kingdoms series. Sky Raiders, the first book of Five Kingdoms, was just OKAY. Not good, not bad either. There were interesting stuff—like the shaping abilities and…

December 26, 2015July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Lailah

Lailah’s a total winner when it comes to giving me a lot of time to sleep, idle around, check blogs, and do other mundane things for three days. Yes, three days. Normally, I can finish a 300-page book within 3-4 hours but Lailah’s oh so boring that I spent more time doing other things than reading it. I really expected that Lailah’s going to be a one-of-a-kind story about angels and vampires considering the number of its Wattpad readers. Alas, I was wrong and it just left me regretting the fact that I haven’t DNFed it at 50 pages. Set…

December 25, 2015July 2, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Golden Son

It is without a doubt that Pierce Brown has successfully cemented his place on my favorite authors’ list with this Red Rising sequel. Before picking up the Golden Son, there was this gnawing fear that the awesome Red Rising that I’ve read in late 2013 was just a product of a wonderful dream. To be honest, it took a lot of courage for me to pick up this book because there’s always the possibility that it has been infected with the Second Book Syndrome. Thankfully, Pierce Brown has lots of tricks up his sleeve to ensure that Golden Son will…

April 30, 2015July 2, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Fyre

Well, that was disappointing. Years and years of following the Septimus Heap series and all I get is a conclusion that is crammed with unnecessary scenes and characters that didn’t grow at all. I don’t know if my standards have improved or this book was just awful. I used to enjoy the series during my pre-blogging days. The series was not ground breaking but still, it was fun to read. This last installment though was pure torture. 684 pages of senseless stuff going on and on that I just want to set the book on fyre and end my misery.…