Being brutally honest about books

Monday, 11 August 2014

Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Lazear

Date finished: 10 August 2014 Steampunk and faeries - two things that interest me and the two things that made me read this book. These elements wouldn't normally go together, but in this novel they do. And they complement each other. The concept is a fantastic one, literally. ...

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Sense & Sensibility (The Austen Project) by Joanna Trollope

   Date finished: 21 May 2014 Sense & Sensibility is my favourite of the Jane Austen novels. (I've read all of her works and I'm only sixteen. Just putting it out there.) I just love the contrast between Elinor and Marianne, and the bitch that is Lucy Steele, and the awkwardness...

Sunday, 27 April 2014

The Elites by Natasha Ngan

  Date finished: 27 April 2014 Original review, ie. not posted on Goodreads While I was reading this I thought that I'd only give it three stars, but then I finished it and decided that hey, it's original and unique, so why not give it four? Because, hello, it's a dystopian novel set outside...

Friday, 25 April 2014

Of Poseidon (The Syrena Legacy #1) by Anna Banks

  Date finished: 24 April 2014 This is one of those books that I read in 24 hours. I'm glad that it wasn't any longer than 320 pages, because I think that that would have made the book worse. The book wasn't terrible, but it wasn't brilliant either. From the blurb, I wasn't expecting...

Sunday, 20 April 2014

Thursday, 17 April 2014

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

  Date finished: 16 April 2014 Got insomnia? Read The Lord of the Rings! Guaranteed cure! Well, actually, The Two Towers was much better than Fellowship. I liked the second book a lot more than the first. To be honest, I should rate this 3 stars and the first book 2, as that would...

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Not a review

Hi there, I just wanted to share that I got these awesome star ratings images from this blog here. The blog has a page of features that you can download for your own blog, which is really nice of the blogger, as well as usef...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

  Date finished: 2 March 2014 As a huge fan of the movies, I wanted to enjoy this more than I actually did. The movies are incredible. But the book is not. For someone who is in this fandom and enjoyed The Hobbit, it's hard for me to say this, but: Tolkien just wasn't that great an...
I'm Alexandria, a 19-year-old reader/writer/blogger from New Zealand. I love language, history, and sci-fi. Hi! I'm always around if you want to talk, which you can do via comments, the contact form, or Facebook.

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