BOOK REVIEW : HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE BY J.K.ROWLING
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE (J.K.Rowling) TITLE : Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone AUTHOR : J.K.Rowling GENRE : Middle Grade, YA, Fantasy FBRC RATING : 5 stars BLURB: Harry Potter’s life is miserable. His parents are dead and he’s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he’s a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.…
SEPTEMBER WRAP-UP
Hey everyone!! Check out the books I read in September. This month I pushed myself to read more books than last month. So I had an ambitious TBR. I got the chance to read 8 books in September. 4 of them were ARCs from NetGalley, Edelweiss+, and The Parliament Press. Thank you so much NetGalley, Edelweiss+, The Parliament Press for providing me with ARCs. There were 3 books that I read for GoodReads buddy-read. I had a great time reading this month. Here is a quick rundown of the FBRC ratings for these books : The Second Chance Supper Club By Nicole Meier – ⭐⭐( 2.5/5 Stars) 2. Wicked Fox…
BOOK REVIEW : CURSED – THE HUNTER INSIDE BY CASEY.M.MILLETTE
TITLE : Cursed – The Hunter Inside AUTHOR : Casey.M.Millette GENRE : YA, Fantasy FBRC RATING : 2 Stars BLURB : A war rages between kings and clans for centuries, their nations split and their kingdoms fallen. Caught in the midst of poverty and bedlam, twenty-year-old Aldor faces a choice. Should he leave home and start his life anew, or stay and protect what little he has? Aldor has only made one friend in his life and has never seen a legendary creature before. As soon as he steps beyond his door, he finds himself an outlaw, hunted by creatures of pure fantasy. Forced into joining a team of misfits…
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BOOK REVIEW : THE ORACLE OF CUMAE BY MELISSA HARDY
TITLE : AUTHOR : GENRE : Fiction, Historical, Humor FBRC RATING : 3.5 Stars PUBLISHING DATE : 8 Oct 2019 BLURB: On the day she turns ninety-nine, Mariuccia Umbellino calls for a priest so that she might finally confess to someone the secrets she has been living with for seventy-five years. When she was a girl, a band of men appeared at her family’s farm in the wild Sibylline Mountains with orders from the pope to destroy the nearby shrine of the Oracle of Cumae and to thereby end forever the practice of the Old Religion that had persisted in that region since Roman times. Set in early nineteenth-century Italy,…
BOOK REVIEW : WICKED FOX BY KAT CHO
“Maybe it’s wrong for us to hold any one person as our whole world. Maybe…” Jihoon trailed off with an odd expression. “Maybe it’s wrong of us to owe all of our happiness or sadness to one person. – KAT CHO (WICKED FOX) TITLE : Wicked fox AUTHOR : Kat Cho GENRE : YA, Fantasy, Mythology, Romance FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB: A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no…
BOOK REVIEW : LOCK EVERY DOOR BY RILEY SAGER
Never take anything you haven’t earned, my father used to say. You always end up paying for it one way or another. -RILEY SAGER (LOCK EVERY DOOR) TITLE : Lock every door AUTHOR : Riley Sager GENRE : Adult Fiction/ Thriller/ Mystery/ Suspense/ Horror FBRC RATING : 5 stars BLURB : No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by…
