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American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
American Spy opens with a bang only to come screeching to halt within a few pages. What could have been an intriguing tale of espionage is thwarted by lacklustre execution: painfully slow pacing, watching-paint-dry levels of entertainment, cardboard characters, robotic narration, dry dialogues, heavy on the tellingβ¦Aside from its snazzy cover & title, and that…
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 1st pov, 2 STARS, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, American Spy, Black & Black heritage authors, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, Burkina Faso, Caribbean, espionage, family, female authors, gay side characters, heavy on telling, HISTORICAL FICTION, Lauren Wilkinson, lgbtq+ side, Martinique, My reviews, NEW YORK, political intrigue, politics, published in 2019, RACE, read in 2021, SISTERS, slow pacing, spies, THRILLER, west africa -
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson β book review
Starsight takes this series in an unexpected direction. This instalment is perhaps even more action-driven than Skyward: from the opening chapters to its explosive finale, Starsight is full of spectacular fight scenes. Whereas Skyward had a narrower scope, Starsight presents us with a far more complex story in which the stakes are higher then ever.…
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An Honest Man by Ben Fergusson β book review
In Ben Fergusson’s An Honest Man our narrator Ralf revisits a particularly significant year in his life. The year is 1989 and Ralf is eighteen and lives with his family in West Berlin. Growing up in a bilingual household (his mother is English), Ralf has always felt like a bit of an outsider. In a…
1980s, 1st pov, 3.5 STARS, Adult, affairs, An Honest Man, Ben Fergusson, Berlin, Booklr, British author, coming of age, drama, east and west germany, family, fathers & sons, gay, German, Germany, HISTORICAL FICTION, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, m/m, male authors, mental health, mothers & sons, MYSTERY, political intrigue, psychological, published in 2019, queer, read in 2020, ROMANCE, spies, SUSPENSE -
Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran β book review
Queen of Coin and Whispers is a very generic YA fantasy novel. While it is not necessarily badly written, its story, setting, and characters are both forgettable and lacklustre. What initially drew me to Queen of Coin and Whispers was its F/F romance. Once I began reading this book I quickly realised that the queer…
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