Rainy Day Reads

Challenges:   Around the Year in 52 books: A book that is a continuation of a book you’ve already read This book is the third and final installment of the “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” series and I was really torn about it. I liked the first book enough to give it 4 stars out of 5, while the second only got 3 stars. This last book was really seesawing between the stars for me, because while I adore the setting and ambience, I started to have a real problem with Lara Jean as a person.  First let me say that I really enjoy Jenny Han’s writing and the whole setup of this series. This book made me super nostalgic for high school and I didn’t even go to an American high school, but all the traditions, the winding down of the school year, saying goodbye and people setting off on different paths in their lives…ugh! So nostalgic!  As for Lara Jean she started to really bug me. Beware of slight spoilers below! She is dating Peter throughout this ...

I came across this book at my local library and I thought why not give it a go. I did have an inkling that I had heard some negative reviews about it, but I figured I would give it a try anyway.   This book is about a dystopian future not too far off, where all girls and boys grow up to die at the ages of 20 and 25 respectively. This is apparently caused by some sort of virus, that seemingly originates in the fact that the elder generation was genetically manipulated to be superhealthy. I don’t really see how that works but anyhow. This world is now populated by the old and the very young. Some old and/or rich men pay people to kidnap young girls so that they can marry and procreate.  Our protagonist, Rhine, is one of these young girls. She is kidnapped along with a bunch of others and married off to a young man, who lives in a mansion cut off from everyday life, with his father and his other brides. We follow Rhine’s stay in this mansion and her quest to escape while...

This is the first book of a dystopian YA trilogy, and I must admit I did not have high hopes for it. What little I had heard of it on Youtube was not great, but my library had it on the shelves, so I decided to give it a go. As you may know, I usually don’t like the majority of the books everyone else seems to love, so I thought I might like this one, even if everyone else doesn’t. But no such luck!  The book is about our main character Cassie, who lives in the near future. Something has happened (I don’t believe it is ever specified) and life is now run by the Society who control people in the smallest ways. The Society decides who you should marry, when you should marry, when you should have kids and how many, what your job is and what you can do for fun. Apparently our present society had too much surplus, so they have decided to cut things down to more manageable numbers. This means there is only 100 poems, 100 songs, 100 paintings and so forth left to the people. I ...

I recently finished this book, which is the last book of the "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" trilogy by Laini Taylor. The first book of the series is called "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" and the second is called "Days of Blood and Starlight". I bought the entire series on a whim, because every booktuber on Youtube seemed to be raving about this series. The shop only had the two first in stock, though, so I started reading the series and then I debated whether or not to buy the last one, since the first book didn't really intrigue me that much. But I read the second one, because I already had it (and I have a hard time stopping in the middle of something) and about halfway through this really picked up for me. So I bought the third book to finish off the series.  Beware of a few spoiler-y bits below. Nothing too bad, but if you like going into a book "blind" stop reading here! The story was epic, including magic, monsters, angels and d...