I read this for the "Light" prompt of the 52 Book Club's December Mini Challenge. I wasn't too hooked by the beginning, it took a while for it to build up for me but once it did I couldn't put it down. I also should have saved this one for the 2021 challenge, it had deckled edges and an ending that I didn't see coming.

I'm 32 and still glad I didn't read this at night. R.L. Stine has a really incredible way of packing a lot of creepy into a short novel.

I read this for the "A Book Featuring Royalty" part of my 2020 reading challenge. I was getting some serious Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard vibes, with the whole "people with powers competing in an arena" thing, but this book didn't feel like an exact duplicate and I loved it. It had a twist on my favorite trope, which I really appreciate, and overall I am waiting anxiously to find a copy of book 2.

I read this for the "holiday" prompt of the December mini-challenge. It was a bit of a relationship roller coaster, and I don't feel like any of the characters were really deep enough for me to be emotionally invested in what happened.

This book had a lot of potential, but the pace really lost it for me. I found Olive to be kind of wishy-washy in the beginning with her feelings and decisions, but once she sets out for Africa she definitely had more of a spine. That sounded like quite a hard journey for an aristocrat. Regardless, the whole thing just kind of plodded along at a slow pace and even the exciting incidents didn't spark a lot of interest. The history and geography was interesting, but this was not the exciting journey that I expected.

This book was quite a journey. The first 130 pages went by really slowly and I'd say the book was barely a 3/5, but after it got going it really took off. I enjoyed all of the characters and his missions and felt the book wrapped up in a really fantastic way. It's rare that I come across someone with this much self awareness and growth.

Always a classic.

This is easily one of my favorite series of hers, I love the characters and their relationships and this magical story line.

It was interesting to read a book set in the Amazon, and I had no idea these people moved twice a year around the floods. I would have liked more details and more of an in-depth view.

I read this for the "A Book Originally Published In The Year You Were Born" (1988) part of my 2018 reading challenge. I enjoyed most of it, felt a little let down by the ending. It was an interesting take on personal happiness.