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The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo, Allison Tebo

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funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

 I kinda forgot I read this, but the moment I saw the title I remembered that I had a good time reading it. It was a fun story 
Gruwelijk Spel by Mirjam Hildebrand

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

2.0

 Dit boek was wel leuk. Niet helemaal voor mijn leeftijd, dus niet super spannend, maar toch spannend genoeg dat ik wel lekker wilde blijven lezen. En het was kort, dus ik heb hem lekker snel uitgelezen. Er is een lesbische romance. 
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Debunked by Dito Abbott

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 - I was in a reading slump before this book, so it took me a while to get into it, but that was on me. Toward the middle of the book, I really got into it and honestly it got me out of that book slump. 
 - There are a lot of funny quotes and you do have to be okay with a lot of slapstick, silly humour and worldbuilding. I know that’s mentioned in the description, but I did have to get used to it, even when knowing it would be like that. This was a super fun book and I have so many highlighted quotes that I loved. 
 - This isn’t completely light, though, there were some pretty gross moments. (There’s torture and a bug that burrows into someone’s skull. That last scene made me pretty nausceous. Oh, and there’s a part where a slug dies and it screams during its death. Idk it was scarier in the book) 


 Not much to say other than that this book was super fun and I’m looking forward to the second installment. 
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Royal Vengence by J.D. Ruffin

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adventurous dark emotional funny

4.0

 It’s been 2 months since I finished this, but: a good ending to a very enjoyable series. I think the second and third books are my favourites, but this was still super enjoyable. 


 Some notes: 
 - Did we ever figure out who the spy was? 
 - I didn’t really like Thorn’s character. It fluctuates so much. One moment he’s disgusted when thinking about killing innocent people, the next he’s absolutely fine with it. 
 - When that one priest was explaining how your first loyalty should be to your faith and not the crown… ngl I was agreeing. It was kind of funny being on the side of the crown in this book, when it was trying to gain power over a faith that up till then they didn’t even know was evil yet. 
 - This book has some heavy emotional stuff that kinda hurt to read but in a good way. 
 - The ending where Orla snuggled up on Dec’s lap and they sit together was super sweet. 
 - This book pulls the
He’s dead; no actually hes not; no actually HE IS; haha no he’s not
and it was a bit annoying but I get it. 
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome

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funny reflective slow-paced

3.5

This book gets surprisingly deep at times, enough to make me emotional, and it's always super relatable. There are also enough parts that are genuinely funny, but do expect more serious contemplations in this one. I underlined so many quotes that I really can't all put them in here, but here as some faves:
"A hatchet and a gun are the only intermediaries through which you could convey your meaning by this time."
"She was feeling annoyed with men generally. I do not blame her, I feel annoyed with them myself sometimes."
"Women have many faults, but, thank God, they have on redeeming virtue - they are none of them faultless."
"The fires of persecution served as torches to show Heaven the heroism that was in man."
"...one knows the character of magpies, or rather their lack of character"


One other thing: The author mentions Tom and Jerry (the main character in a book was "own cousin to Tom and Jerry") and I can't find anything about who they might have been and whether they were actually a famous duo or just random names JKJ decided to come up with.

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I enjoyed this book and I especially loved Tipp (some of his scenes almost made me cry). All of the side characters were lovable, though, in their own ways. The book felt slow at times, but that's probably because my attention span has been bad. The descriptions were super good and especially the water trial was very stressful to read.

There was a bit of discrepancy in Kiva saying she helped everyone cause that was her job, regardless of what they did, but then she refuses to help a guard and actively makes his sickness worse.
So why exactly are you helping a person who killed his children but not a guard who sexually harasses people? Is it cause you didnt see the man kill his children but you did see the guard sexually harass people? Bit of a double standard.


My only major grievances: eyes don't have to have stone colours. Just say her eyes are yellow (amber).
And yeah, the plot twist. Not about Jaren, the one about Kiva. On the one hand it explains why her family was so sure of being able to rescue her, but on the other hand we saw her alone with Tilda various times. Why did she not call her "mother" then? I get that maybe she was still super on alert, but apparantly things were safe enough for her to tell the story of how her parents met. It also makes it a bit hypocritical that she was mad at Jaren for hiding his identity from her. And lastly, it does make the ending of this series pretty predictable. Jaren and Kiva will get together, thus uniting both sides, but not before Kiva does a lot of soul-searching and her angry siblings will push her to take her revenge. That relationship is going to break, we'll get lots of angst cause Kiva is heartbroken, etc. I think one of her siblings will probably die and his/her last words will either be for her to stop this fighting and make up or to continue the fight. I'm thinking it'll be the brother and he'll say the latter. Idk, if I'm wrong don't tell me, I want to read the books to see if I'm right!
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Slavernij; ketenen die (nog) niet verbroken zijn by Wilfred Hermans

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challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

1.5

 Ik wilde dit boek lezen om te leren over moderne slavernij, maar het merendeel van het boek gaat over racisme in Nederland (een beetje een gekke balans met meer verhalen over wat nare opmerkingen dan verhalen over letterlijke verkrachtingen en moord). Verder waren er geen handvaten over wat je zou kunnen doen, dus je eindigde met een rotgevoel want alles wat je koopt wordt gemaakt door slaven. Leuk. Natuurlijk moet een boek over slavernij niet per se leuk zijn, maar als ik er alleen maar een schuldgevoel van krijg en geen manieren om wat te doen/verbeteren dan weet ik niet helemaal wat het punt is. Oh, en de illustratie op de kaft was gemaakt met behulp van AI. Nou ga ik daar niet te moeilijk over doen, want ik weet niet hoeveel inmenging er nou van was, maar kennelijk toch genoeg om het te noemen. 
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Rook by Sharon Cameron

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adventurous slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

In general: 
 Although this book was super slow, I enjoyed most of it. I loved the whole Scarlet Pimpernel side of it. The characters were lovable and they had a lot of funny/sweet moments (one of my favourites was when somebody was translating things to another person during a fight). There was a love triangle, which I didn’t enjoy. What I did love was the climax chapter, where all the paragraphs were linked. That was super cool. 


 There were some things that were rather confusing/not as great: 
 - The worldbuilding. Clocks, mills and pianos are illegal, but violins aren’t and at one point they play McCartney, even though information from the world before is super rare. I wonder how anyone in this world gets anything done and what counts as a machine and what doesn’t. 
 - Mrs. Rathbone’s personality was very confusing, going from tolerating to liking to disliking to loving to hating her.
There’s a plot twist at the end that I could have seen coming if her characterisation hadn’t been so inconsequential, I just thought the author didn’t know what she wanted.
 
 - Things that were repeated too many times: 
 1) The villain trusts in Fate; everything is in Fate’s hand 
 2) Rene likes to sit with his elbows on his knees 
 3) Wesson’s Guide is EVERYWHERE and has no real relevance (is it a reference to something I don’t know?) 
 4) Rene has a noticable pulse at the base of his throat 
 5) LeBlanc is sexist 
 6) There’s a white streak in LeBlanc’s hair 
 7) Rene is always flipping a coin 
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There’s a fakeout death. And when someone does die, they bury him… even though he exploded. How?
 
 - The Eiffel tower is on the cover even though it was destroyed and not rebuilt yet in the book. 
 - There’s some more feminism stuff, where corsets are bad and if you assume a woman wants a bunch of kids you are underestimating her (even though the picture painted was actually nice) 
 - These quotes are dumb: 
 <blockquote>[She was] fascinated that it [his hair] felt like hair – it was so red and male she’d half thought it might feel like something different.</blockquote> 
 <blockquote>Her grief for both of them was flavored with guilt the way salt flavors the sea; she could taste it in the tears.</blockquote> 
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Lof Der Zotheid, Of, De Dwaasheid Gekroond: Een Pronkrede by Desiderius Erasmus

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3.0

Ja, ik kan wel inzien dat dit aardig wat ophef veroorzaakt zal hebben. Ook tegenwoordig zouden er nog genoeg mensen boos worden als ze zo werden uitgemaakt voor dwazen. Ik denk dat de satire tegenwoordig niet meer zo’n ongewone vorm is, dus ik vond het na een tijdje wel wat saai worden. Het werd erg voorspelbaar. Ik moest me er echt toe aanzetten om het leuke ervan in te zien, al lukte dat dan ook wel.
Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome

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adventurous funny lighthearted
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Another fun read. Through the silliness JKJ's more serious side shone through. In this case, when he talked about religion. No matter what religion's holy house you are in, there will be silence. Silence teaches us no creed, only that God's arms are around the universe.

Of course, there are also enough hilarious quotes:

I do not intend to describe it [a starry night] to you. To do justice to the theme, I should have to be even a more brilliant and powerful writer than I am. To attempt the subject, without doing it justice, would be a waste of your time, sweet reader, and of mine - a still more important matter.

It looked like a cheese that had seen trouble.

 It is undermining my moral character, this book is. [an inaccurate timetable of trains] It is responsible for at least ten per cent of the bad language that I use every year.