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My Year of Rest and Relaxation Review
  My Year of Rest and Relaxation Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Genre: Fiction Rating: 4 / 5 stars Switching up gears with a genre I do not often turn to and reading Ottessa Moshfegh's infamous "My Year of Rest and Relaxation". Cynical, very real and heavily character driver - Moshfegh succeeds greatly in her depiction of the dark realities of life - because not everything is rainbows and sunshines, sometimes life gets hard and all we want to do is go into a year-long "hibernation".The narrator is young, beautiful, rich - in the eyes of the general population she should be happy, shouldn't she? Well... she may be taken care of pretty well but the reality...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Review

  My Year of Rest and Relaxation Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Genre: Fiction Rating: 4 / 5 stars Switching up gears with a genre I do not often turn to and reading Ottessa Moshfegh's infamous "My Year of Rest and Relaxation". Cynical, very real and heavily character...

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Review

  The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Author: V.E Schwab Genre: Adult Fantasy Rating: 5 / 5 stars I went into The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue with extremely high expectations based on the thousands of raving reviews it received and keeps receiving up to this very day...

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House of Earth and Blood Review

  House of Earth and Blood Author: Sarah J Maas Genre: Adult Fantasy Rating: 5 / 5 stars Looking back on all of the books I've finished in 2020, there is one particular that stands out the most and that is no other than House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas. I...

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Black Sun Review

  Black Sun Author: Rebecca Roanhorse Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: 5 / 5 stars "A God will return when the Earth and Sky converge under the Black Sun" The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy Black Sun is a high fantasy inspired by the civilisations...

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Once Upon a Broken Heart Review

  Once Upon a Broken Heart Author: Stephanie Garber Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: 4,5 / 5 stars It’s been a long time since I’ve been so thoroughly immersed in a book and I can’t say that it comes as a surprise that OUABH achieved this. If you’ve read the Caraval...

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It Ends With Us Review

  It Ends With Us Author: Colleen Hoover Genre: Romance Rating: 5 / 5 stars How do you write a review to a story so personal? A book that puts you through love, pain and desperation so all you want to do is scream or throw it across the room? I went into 'It Ends With...

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