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Einstein's Dreams Review

4/5 

A hopeless romantic and a physicist walk into a bar and write this book. 

It’s hard to explain what this was about because it is about so many things and then nothing at all. Its about time and how it affects us in different ways and more ways than we think. A poetically scientific or scientifically poetic take on time, is the best way I can describe this.

Without directly pointing it out this is basically features a fictionalized Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is plagued with weird dreams that he cannot make sense of, as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905. Each chapter explores a different dream of his and how time flows so different in each. It was… weirdly moving?!

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Girl you post like something pretending to be human. Follow

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I don’t think I’ll ever get over you. Deep down you always will be the person I wish I ended up with.

— r.r.

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Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “The Fear”

[Text ID: “I am afraid / I will love you forever / and we will never be / in the same room / again.”]

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How can we be allowed to feel so much for people who don't feel anything for us?

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I used to build dreams about you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Thunderclouds - Sia / Little Boy - Ashnikko / Late Chrysanthemums / Gangsta - Kat Dahlia / BLOODMONEY - Poppy

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Icebreaker Review

3.5 Stars

I went into this thinking I will completely hate it because I am cold hearted. But this was managed to not make me vomit since it was not your typical too chessy teenage rom-com with a moody male love interest.

Infact it was pretty darn cute!

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My Sisters Big Fat Indian Wedding Review

3.75/5 

Some of my favorite old Indian movies always have a big wedding sequence in them and I was missing those nostalgic big cheesy Indian wedding vibes in the Indian movies these days. This book made me feel all types of nostalgia because it had everything you could want, the wedding chaos, the copious amount of food, nosey relatives, the aunties always trying to set the singles up, cheesy romance where the love interests fall in love in the matter of days. I loved it!

Also can we talk about the cover!

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Loveless Review

4/5 Stars

The friendships, the love, the validation!!! This is my first book ever that I got to see representation of ace/aro and it was quite refreshing to read the inner thoughts of Georgia as she’s trying to figure out… well ultimately who she is, what she does and does not like when it comes to her sexuality. 

The fact that it was not a straight line of her trying to check all the boxes and saying “yes I am ____ “,  was what I liked best about this book. She was messy and made a lot of mistakes and hurt some people along the way which is kind of the reality of it isn’t it? Its not an ideal situation when you can not even figure out who you are when you don’t even know such a thing exists. 

Also I loved the friendships, I liked that they’re best friends that actually have disagreements and not just YES men to each other. Alice Oseman can do no wrong with her books.

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Ordinary Monsters Review

4/5 Stars It is rare for me to read an almost 700 page book and always think ‘It could have been a lot shorter’, but with Ordinary Monsters I wanted more. I wanted it to never end. It felt like watching a movie or TV show and those are my favorite type of fantasy books because you can just picture everything so well. There were many characters in this epic tale, and normally I don’t prefer that as it gives me a headache and I end forgetting most of the characters but I know for sure even after a long time I will be able to remember each and every single one of them because they left their mark on me, whether a good or bad doesn’t matter, its there. Especially Marlowe, not to be dramatic but I would die for him. He needs to be protected at all costs. The ending was most definitely satisfying and also left me wanting more. Now the concept of this book is nothing original and something completely unique, for a fantasy. Yet still you will love it because of the writing and the characters. If you love a good x-men, Stranger Things type of story with excellent world building you will enjoy this. I am so happy this is a trilogy because I need to see more Charlie and Marlowe bonding.

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The Galaxy, and The Ground Within Review

4.5/5 Stars I am slowly but surely making my way through all of Becky Chambers books because she has become my favorite Science fiction authors and just one of my favorite authors in general. And for good reason, because her writing, the characters she creates and the these futuristic worlds she creates have so much depth and personality that I always end feeling sad finishing one of her books even if they end on a good note because you get so invested in this fictional wonderful world. The Wayfarers series is one of the BEST science fiction series ever. Each one better than the preceding. The characters are always the highlight of all these books. And these characters in particular in The Galaxy and the Ground within wrapped themselves tightly around mu heart and I will never forget them. I need a Topu in my life please!!! If you have never read any of the books from the Wayfarers series I suggest you rectify that and do it right away because you are missing my friend.

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Bloodmarked Review

My rating: 5/5

Pain. I am in pain.

First of all, Tracy Deonn how dare you?!

With any sequel for a fantasy series, there is always the fear if it will suffer from second book syndrome. Bloodmarked somehow was not only just as remarkable as Legendborn but in my opinion even better for a lot of reasons.

Reason number 1:

“Leave it to Selwyn Kane to be comforted by a pile of sharp objects.”

I think it is safe to say I am now a simp for Selwyn Kane and proud of it.

Reason number 2:

Bloodmarked takes a deeper dive into the history of Aurthur, the roundtable and much much more that I can not say without spoiling anything. If you though Bree was really put through it in Legendborn, you are not ready for what our strong and brave girl has to go through in Bloodmarked. The stakes are at an all time high, she has to make tough decisions. She is at constant battle between her brain and her heart. I just wanted to give her a hug.

Reason number 3:

Tracy Deonn, as much as I am enraged with her for that ending (I mean come on??!!) I am in awe of her craft. She did not just simply write a book. She has created art. Building such an elaborate world in the first book and continuing that with even better world building is not as easy task, yet Deonn did it so smoothly. I will be reading anything and everything this women writes.

Reason number 4:

(I have to bring up Sel again, I am not sorry)

Bree’s and Sel’s relationship! No I do not mean a romantic one, and I am not even going to say that I ship them or that they should end up together or anything along those lines. But I will say it has been a long time since I have seen chemistry between any two characters like them. The vulnerability, the growth, the trust.

(PS this review took me about an hour to write because I tried my hardest to say things without saying too many things, iykyk)

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the best feeling in the world is cozy

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If We Were Villains Review

My rating: 4/5

I have never been more confused on how to write a review for a book, because I have never been more confused about what the book was about.

But I will say this, like every one of Shakespeare's work you will either love it or hate it. And I loved this. I won't lie and say that I loved reading Shakespeare in high-school, mostly I didn't like it because it was assigned reading I do not like being told what to read.

This was the right amount of pretentious without being straight up annoying. I don't like to compare books but I do need to say, this was what I was looking for when I read The Atlas Six earlier this year. I liked it, but it annoyed me and so did the characters.

In If we were villains, I did not like all the characters but I understood them. These 7 Shakespearean thespians so flawed and frustrating that you hate yourself for loving them.

In conclusion the last 10 pages gutted me. I had to stop and take a deep breath. I am now tempted to read all of Shakespeare's plays again and have an existential crisis and also recite poetry out loud.