Theron

Wonderful, hands down (pun intended). The story can be a bit jagged at times and abruptly jump the metaphorical river without building you a bridge to close the gap of missing information.
However, the slow build to the climax of the story was well paced and the intrigue around the magical system / white city / wtf happened to London has left me already searching up the next book to buy it.
4/5

French vampire Ms.Frizzle's traumatizing life story told side-by-side with her current day kindergarten school teaching that morphs into a tale of accepting the end in order to ultimately embrace a new beginning.

The way this tale paints a picture of humanizing Collete's vampire tendencies alongside her struggle to deny the God of Endings at each turn of her journey through time is both heartbreaking and inspiring.

I wish I could experience this book for the first time again..and I just finished the damn thing. Fuck the haters, fight me.

2 (1/2) stars. This has a very misleading premise that advertises this story as a “haunted Alexa spook-fest.” In reality, it's a story about a man's grief of losing his wife and his internal struggle to grapple with it.

The story stopped being “spooky” the moment he moved after crushing the haunted Alexa knock-off. His new home, a cabin, presents a Lovecraftian horror mimicry that fails to deliver and actual scare. It acts more like a cheap copy of other horror novels during this section.

I will commend the author on the way he captured grief and sorrow in this book. The tale shines bright during these snippets and the lead in to the “horror” is just beautiful, yet it somehow slips on a banana peel and falls flat on its face each time the scares are supposed to shine.

Holy mother of god..... (Pun intended). This was possibly the best horror novel I've read. It had me legitimately filled with dread, fear, disgust, and adrenaline as Maggie Wall tore through each victim with gusto.

The stupendous dread build-up, explosive terror, repulsive gore was fantastic page after page (odd thing to say, I know). A warning to anyone who wishes to read this, there are some scenes that are highly graphic in their description. Will recommend that you potentially not eat anything before tackling this story, if you are truly squeamish.

I only wish I could rate this higher, it was so damn good.

Pretty decent. Had some fun reading it but Sarah has a bad tendency to drone on and on about details.
Whether that be about the way people dress or the look of a room or how the f*cking weather is at the moment.
The wise philosopher Gucci Mane once said, “If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can get lost in the sauce.” I believe Sarah got lost in the sauce.

3.2/5

Very solid book, and full of easy one-page reads per day to give you bits of wisdom. Lots of the topics and quotes from the different stoic philosophers, mimic quite a bit from The book of Proverbs in the Bible. However, the modern day “translation” and examples that Ryan provides from the stoic philosophers helps apply it to our everyday lives. 3.5/5

Very solid book that breaks down all the different biases that we may (or may not) use in our daily conversations and interactions.

Rolf does a fantastic job at explaining each bias and gives clear cut examples. Each chapter is focused on one bias and he keeps it descriptive yet brief as to not bore you to death.