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March 4, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

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…

March 4, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: A Wicked Thing

It’s such a wicked thing that I spent most of my time cursing this book instead of appreciating it. A Wicked Thing is not exactly a retelling of Sleeping Beauty but more of a sequel telling us the ‘what-could-have-been’ after Princess Aurora woke up and decided that the Prince is not hot enough to be her true love. With A Wicked Thing, Thomas proved that there are really many ways on how to spin a yarn and what she did with this well-worn tale is definitely inventive and refreshing. I liked that the author didn’t the follow the usual fairy…

February 14, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Monstrous

Monstrous has all the ingredients to be an amazing book but sadly, the result was less than delicious. We have an amnesiac heroine, Kymera, who basically came back from the dead and found herself only functional due to the fact that she’s a patchwork of different animal parts put together. This fact didn’t bother her, however, for she is naïve and pure at heart. All she ever wanted is to put her new capabilities to good use. Good use means saving the kingdom of Bryre and its young girls from an evil wizard, Barnabas. As I’ve said, Monstrous knew where…

February 1, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: The Serpent’s Curse

Forbidden Stone was amazing. I wish I could say the same thing for The Serpent’s Curse. Though it did not suffer the second book syndrome, I cannot say that it lived up to the stellar performance of its predecessor. True, there are still the globe-trotting adventures, codes to be deciphered, and a parent to be saved; everything was not just the same. The story felt long winded and I just couldn’t establish a connection to the story. Maybe it’s because some of the twists were predictable or that they were revealed in the wrong time or maybe the important reveals…