After reading this like 1000 times it’s work my all time favourite book

This book holds such a special place in my heart. Set in WW2 Germany and follows our main character Lesisl. An orphan girl, who moves to 33 Himmel street to live with her new foster parents, the Hubbermans. Every single character in this book honestly deserves to be treasured from cheeky little Rudy to stern but loving Rosa.

After re reading this book for like the millionth time, the ending still makes me tear up!

Did I like this book?! Not really!
Was it the worst thing I’ve read?! Again not really, but it could have been worse.

So this book pretty much picks up from where the first one left off, with Alina going after the second amplifier and pretty much being on the run for a good half of the novel. This second instalment in was such a bloody bore. Nothing happens for like almost all the book and the only action we do get is in the last 4 chapters. So it’s fair to assume i was not impressed

I’ve never read a book so depressing, but god was this beautiful. The characters and the world feel incredibly real and I loved how realistic the portrayal of mental health in this book was.

Death is all around us, in fact it’s pretty inevitable. We are all going to die in the end. But this novel does such a great job at describing the effects death can have on a lot person. This book was a story on love, loss, depression, sex and characters being so unapologetically themselves.

Toru goes through a fucking tsunami of shit in this book, yet he still continues to live, he chooses to not give up and I got to respect him for that. I really do wonder what happens to toru and Midori tho?

For a book clearly aimed at kids, boy was this phenomenal! Arden wins me over again with her ability to write and create such loveable character

I am drowning in joy! Ahhhhh

I love a good wlw relationship, but I especially love a wlw story with representation. Henna Wars follows Nishat a 16yr old Bengali girl living in Ireland who comes to the realisation that she’s a Lesbian. Now as someone who comes from an Asian background and is also Bisexual myself I know the fear Nishat must have felt about the prospect of coming out to her parents. Yet she still does it. It takes a while for her parents to get on board but by the end of the story we get a happy ending( which made me a little teary)

Everything about this book was soooo cute. From the relationship between Nishat and her sister, to the relationship between our main character and Flavia. But on top of that, there was so much REPRESENTATION! And I genuinely could not be happier.

I think the author does a great job of portraying what it feels like to be LGBTQ+ when you come from an Asian background, she also does not shy away from all the hardships Nishat has to face as a lesbian from a Muslim background who also goes to a Catholic school.

All in all this book was a solid 5/5. I loved the characters, I loved the whole promise of the story and I genuinely felt seen!

As someone trying to read the Iliad(and failing) I know that Homers poem on the great Trojan war is not the easiest text thorough! Stephen Fry however, does a great job at explaining what exactly went down during this period in history. He does a fantastic job at explaining who everyone is, the roles they played etc and heavily encourages you not to try and remember everything! Which I found to be very useful.

So if you’re looking to read a book about the Trojan war, I’d highly recommend this one!

You really can’t go wrong with some Christie, she never fails to get me out of a reading slump. Although I enjoyed the book, the constant french was a pain in the ass!

Fuck did this book break my heart. I love Lily, Ryle can burn in hell and Atlas deserves the whole fucking world.

This was surprisingly very good. A retelling of the king Midas myth presented as an adult fantasy