I get why bookstagram has been raving about Radiance. It. Is. Magical. And I literally am writing this Just after finishing the Epilogue. I’m mushy and I have goosebumps too.World building aside, the friends-to-lovers trope is what hooked me right from the first page. Human woman Ildiko is married off to Kai prince (not human…
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
This was such a fun book! I love retellings but don’t opt for them often cuz there might not be enough justice done to the story or it sometimes feels like the original may get tarnished cuz of how the characters are treated in a retelling. In case of Cinder, BRILLIANT work! Cinderella as a…
The Simoquin Prophecies by Samit Basu
My Rating – 4/5 Imagine all the high fantasy/fiction/mythological story reference woven together for a story that’s an entirely different entity of a story in itself. That’s Simoquin Prophecies for you. Took me a while to finish this, but honestly it was worth savouring. The book is fresh and original and yet spoofs practically every…
Madam by Phoebe Wynne
If this book were a person I’d slap it so hard it’d have to medically fix it’s broken jaw.
Ghosts In Our Backyard – By Alisha ‘Priti’ Kirpalani
Having grown up in watching Ramsay horror movies with the ‘chudails’ and ‘pishach’ chasing me in my nightmares, a book written by the descendant of the Ramsay family really intrigued me.
The Bold Type: Modern ‘woke’ woman’s Utopia
The Bold Type has been deemed it to be the ‘Sex and the City’ for the woke times, but the writers took modern, woke, millennial issues and ticked off a checklist through this show.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak plays with your feelings in certain parts of the book, which is what this book annoying, yet appealing enough to continue till the end. Zusak makes you cry, occasionally laugh.
The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
Not every reader may be comfortable reading a book that is so tragic, but if you are this book is totally worth the melancholy your heart will face.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
This is one of the most beautiful proses I’ve read in my life, lush, is what they call it. Everything is poetic, melancholic and a few times even tragic but this it’s written in such striking language, it al most made me swoon. Each paragraph more confounding than the previous, the book takes us through…
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
This book would have done better on screen as the visuals in here are quite jump-scary in an entertain-you-on-a-1045th-tv-show-episode kinda way.
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