This book is remarkable.
The depth is profound, I am not a chess play and understand little of the game yet I was completely gripped by every chess game in the book. It is truly beautiful.
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MazzaB1 rated The Comfort Book: 4 stars
MazzaB1 reviewed The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Beth Harmon, an orphan by eight years old, is unremarkable. She is plain and she …
Review of "The Queen's Gambit" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
MazzaB1 reviewed Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabess
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3 stars
I have really mixed feelings on this book.
There were parts of the book I hated - and actions/words/behaviours from characters (Josh) which really made me angry. I do think this was intentional and I like the idea that people aren’t all bad - often nuance is referred to from Josh to Jess, and I feel with that in mind it is an invite for readers to gaze into the areas of nuance.
I did find elements of the book heartbreaking like Jess’s relationship with her dad.
Over all it is easy to read but a journey on which you become quickly angry and frustrated by characters.
MazzaB1 reviewed This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Review of 'This Is How You Lose the Time War' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This book is beautiful. The POV through lyrical poetical letters was very clever - I felt as though I was implicated by reading the letters. I absolutely loved it - nothing like anything I’ve read before.
MazzaB1 reviewed Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong …
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5 stars
This is book is beautifully written and explores the lives of displaced people. I felt the nostalgia, longing and the pain with every word.
Truly breathtaking - what a powerful debut.
MazzaB1 rated Silence Project: 5 stars
MazzaB1 rated If You Still Recognise Me: 5 stars
MazzaB1 rated Daisy Jones & The Six: 5 stars
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the …
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She …
MazzaB1 rated Midnight Library: 4 stars
Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each …
MazzaB1 rated House of Sky and Breath: 5 stars
MazzaB1 rated Yellowface: 5 stars
MazzaB1 reviewed House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (Crescent City, #1)
Bound by blood. Tempted by desire. Unleashed by destiny.
Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working …
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5 stars
So many people complain that the first 400 pages of this book are info dumping but I loved it.
It was great World building and I felt like I knew the depth of the characters, this is possibly my favourite Maas book so far on the multiverse journey
MazzaB1 rated Freshwater: 3 stars
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's …