My first initial reaction after finishing this book, was: "WHY DIDN'T I READ THIS SOONER???" To say that I loved it, is an understatement about how passionately I feel about this book and those characters!

I have to admit that the first few chapters felt a little bit slow to me, I didn't know what was going on and I was trying to understand everyone's relationship with one another! I felt a bit lost, but shortly after, everything was quite clear and the plot started moving fast and I was able to thoroughly enjoy it!!

The most important part of this book is it's characters and I loved them all for different reasons!! I'd love to be friends with Kaz and Nina so much, I think they make excellent company, even though Kaz can be a bit brooding sometimes! Inej has amazing skills and I loved her so much, because she also had morals, something that the other members of the Dregs seem to lack often! Matthias was so funny without knowing it, I loved his scowling face and grumpy retorts and his relationship with Nina was aaaaall the feels!! My least two favorite characters are Jesper and Wylan. I don't have much to say about Wylan, because I felt like he was a filler character, but I have to say that I almost despised Jesper. He was so arrogant all the time and the fact that he was the reason why the got ambushed and Inej almost lost her life, was unforgivable for me. I'm not saying that I hate him, I just really really don't like him!

Plot wise, I think the siege in the Ice Court was so well written and I loved that nothing happened easily and they had complications on the way. Also, I have to note that there were many nice and unexpected plot twists that I really loved and made me want to keep reading all night long!

I liked the world building, I couldn't shake the feeling that maybe Ketterdam is Amsterdam and I loved that I knew everything about the Grisha from the Grisha trilogy and so it was easy to follow this story too.

Lastly, something that bothered me a bit, was the fact that everyone seemed to be in need of a love interest. Matthias and Nina's love story was my favorite, because it had a solid backstory and their emotions were palpable throughout the whole book. I can also see the attraction between Kaz and Inej, they've been working together for years, so I can totally understand their feelings. But Wylan and Jesper's relationship was completely unnecessary for me. I just felt the author made them fall in love just for representation. I know that's a controversial opinion, many people loooove their relationship, but unfortunately it didn't do it for me...

All in all, "Six of Crows" is an awesome book that I'll always cherish and most definitely will reread!!

I've owned this book for more than a year before I finally decided to read it and I was such a fool for not reading it sooner! I really liked it, I literally devoured it in 2 days and I was wishing it was longer, because I really wanted to read more about certain characters!!

Regarding the plot, I liked the idea of a suicide crime, I never read a book like this and I thought it was a pretty clever idea! Overall, I thought it could be a little bit more suspenseful, I don't think it can classify exactly as a thriller, but that didn't bother me much, it actually felt like reading a movie, if that makes any sense! 😅

My favourite characters ever were Bronwyn and Nate! I loooved them and the love story was... 💥💥💥 I would really love a little bit more details about them, especially Nate had a pretty impressive character growth and I believe Bronwyn was one of the best things that could happen to him.

Talking about character growth, Addy had the best character growth ever! She really surprised me, I wasn't expecting that much development from her! At the beginning, I felt like she was the most cliche character ever, but I was pleasantly surprised and I ended up loving her!

The character that really left me with little to no impressions was Cooper. I really sympathized with him though, I cannot fathom what he went through when he was forced to come out to everyone, including his strict father. This is an experience no one should ever have and I felt really sorry for him. Apart from that, I just didn't feel a connection with him and I can't say that I hate him, but I don't like him either.

Simon on the other hand, is a character that really confused me. His need for attention and depression led him to fake his murder, but I felt like I needed more context to better understand him and his motives. Faking your own murder, while committing suicide and targeting "random" people isn't something that everyone who suffers from depression does and I just wanted more details about him, more insight to his mind and what was happening inside his head while he planned all of this. I think it would be very interesting if the whole book was from Simon's POV instead of multiple POVs.

All in all, I really liked this book. There were some things that I didn't like, but that didn't stop me from enjoying this book and I'm thinking that I might reread it in the close future as well!

What an emotional road trip this book was. I didn't know what to expect after finishing "Six of Crows", I didn't know how Kaz and his crew would get out of this mess and I was really crossing my fingers nothing bad would happen. Talking about bad things, let me explain the reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. Matthias death was so incredibly unnecessary that when I read it, I simply closed the book and took my time to collect myself. I think he was one of the characters that could have even more growth and development, he could do amazing things and his relationship with Nina still had a long way to go. So I think his death was stupid and I won't tolerate it.

Regarding the plot, I think a liked "Six of Crows" a little bit better, because it was an adventure, whereas in "Crooked Kingdom" there was much more plotting and talking and movie behind the scenes. I couldn't help but admire Kaz's cleverness, all of his plans were better than the last and he really outdid himself with Kuwei's auction!

I liked Wylan's character development, even though I still cannot really like him as a character. He really grew as a person and I loved the fact that he had way more confidence than the first book and he literally saved them numerous times!

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this duology, I think the plot and the world building were pretty good and I wish I could read more about these characters and learn more about their future endeavors!!

I was very excited to read this book, mostly because I had already read "Uprooted" and it was one of the few 5-star reads of 2018! Naomi Novik easily became on of my favorite authors and I had very high expectations for this one as well, especially since people said that it's even better than "Uprooted". Unfortunately, I didn't have the best reading experience, as this book didn't exactly live up to my expectations and to the hype that surrounded it.

Firstly, my problem was that there were way too many important characters and way too many POVs and I felt a little bit lost. I usually prefer one POV as opposed to many, but that's not something that will make me enjoy a book less. In this book, I didn't really know which character to root for and I didn't feel particularly connected to any of them, I couldn't feel empathetic for anyone and also, there were times when certain POVs were very tiring to read, especially Stepon's POV, I had such a hard time reading these chapters.

What I believe is the biggest asset of this book, is the writing. Naomi Novik has improved terribly since "Uprooted", her writing skills really had me in awe and I think it's totally what saved the book for me. Moreover, I liked the way she used the old tales and the Fae, especially how good she handled Fae. Usually nowadays, Fae in books are those super-beautiful creatures with a high sex drive and amazing abilities, but Novik didn't follow this trope and I'm so thankful for it!! She really handled the Staryk well, the passages in their land were some of my favourites.

All in all, I think "Spinning Silver" is a very good book, because it has an amazing technical execution. The writing is beautiful, the story is cleverly constructed, all I would have liked for it to be a 4-star or even a 5-star book, is for it to have less characters, so I could connect with them more easily.

[this ebook is gifted from Natasha Tynes in exchange with an honest review]

"They called me Wyatt" is a murder mystery book set in Jordan as well as in the US. The book follows Siwar, a Jordanian student in the US, who mysteriously dies on the night of her 25th birthday. Years later, Siwar wakes up in the mind and body of a toddler called Wyatt and now we follow his quest to try an uncover the secrets of her murder.

As is reflected in my rating, I obviously really liked this book. My most favorite parts of the book, were whenever Siwar was reminiscing about her time in Jordan. It's a country with a culture that has many differences and similarities with my country and culture too (I'm Greek, btw) and reading about everyday life there and their way of thinking was very intriguing and I was really looking forward to those chapters.

As for Siwar, our leading lady, there were times when I really sympathized with her and others when I thought she was a bit obnoxious. I liked that it was very evident how much she struggled juggling her birth home (Jordan) and her chosen home (the US). Around Siwar, we meet and array of interesting characters, most of them from Jordan but we also meet some intriguing people after Siwar goes to college.

One character I want to talk about is Theo, he's a Greek guy Siwar used to date and he's one of the suspects of the murder. I'm mentioning specifically him, because since I'm Greek, it was pretty interesting seeing how a person of my country is represented in a novel by a person from a different country/culture. While reading, I liked some parts of him, but what I want to comment on the most, is that on the whole, I didn't think he was a caricature of a Greek man and even though he ended up being one of the bad characters, I don't think that has anything to do with being Greek.

What I didn't like about this book, was mainly Wyatt's parts when he was still a toddler, I was really trying to read through these chapters fast, to get back to Siwar and her memories from Jordan or college, because frankly, this was what I found most interesting.

Something else that kind of bothered me was the fact that there were seemingly many suspects for Siwar's murder, but none of them had a pretty strong reason to do it. While the story progressed and Wyatt started the investigation, I couldn't think who could have done it, because I really didn't think anyone had a strong motive. Also, in the second part of the book, what was missing for me was suspence, I wanted to feel more on the edge of my seat while we were nearing the uncovering of the murderer.

All in all, "They Called me Wyatt" is a very interesting book, that apart from having the murder mystery aspect, is also pretty intriguing because it gives food for thought regarding race and culture and how you can break free from stereotypes.

[gifted by Chaitali Nath in exchange with an honest review]

This is my first ever poetry collection and I'm really wondering why I didn't read poetry sooner! This book contains many poems regarding school, romance, growing up, religion and many more interesting topics.

I had such an awesome time reading this, I found myself really relating to the author, especially in subjects such as friendship. I think C. Nath has a very nice view of the world and of herself and she's written a raw yet soft and calming collection of poems that very accurately depict the turmoil a person feels at least once in his/her life.

There are many poems that I returned to, because I wanted to read them more carefully and even contemplate their meaning and think how this or that poem applies to my life and current circumstances. I've singled out some lines from a poem that I really loved and felt them deep in my heart because they are so so true! Those lines are:

"Newton's third law of motion
I don't know why it doesn't apply to human emotion
If every action has an equal and opposite reaction
Then why does the loving soul not get love back for its satisfaction?"

It just spoke to me and I read that poem again and again because I felt that it really touched my soul and I loooved that about this book!

All in all "Soul Spoken" is a very nice poetry collection, that made me stop and think and contemplate not only my life, but universal matters as well and I definitely recommend it to everyone!

I love this book with all my heart! This is my second time reading and I fell in love with the story once again, because Pilcher really knows how to handle a lot of interesting characters, she has a talent for storytelling and her writing is simple, yet rich at the same time.

This novel takes place in Scotland and know I have an incredible urge to pack my bags and just visit this country, I want to see all the places described in the book and I'm a way, pay homage to Pilcher's novels, because the majority of them take place in Scotland!

This book feels like one of those old 70s-80s family series, where a wealthy family would live in a huge estate and have balls and go hunting and romance would always be in the air... It feels so nostalgic, that makes me long for places I've never been to and people I've never met!

All in all, I love all Pilcher's works and "September" couldn't be an exception. Just do yourselves a favor and read this book!