📝 First Impressions By the time I reached Wings, I was already completely invested in the Nomes and in the strange way they see the human world. The first two books had already taken them through so much change that…
📝 First Impressions What I remembered most clearly about Diggers was not one particular scene, but the way the book made me look at life from a slightly different angle. That was actually the note I left for myself when…
📝 First Impressions I had forgotten how much fun Terry Pratchett can be when he takes a completely ridiculous idea and somehow makes it work. Truckers is built around tiny people trying to survive in a world made for humans,…
📝 First Impressions Enigmă la mansardă starts with exactly the kind of promise I want from a classic mystery: something is wrong, something is hidden, and the truth is almost certainly more complicated than it first appears. What I liked…
📝 First Impressions Bună seara, Melania! will always have a special place in my reading history because it was the first book by Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu that I ever read. At the time, I had no idea that I was discovering…
📝 First Impressions Apel din necunoscut comes from an author who has been part of my reading life for so long that I honestly find it difficult to remember a time when her mystery novels felt completely new to me.…
📝 First Impressions I already knew I wanted to return to this world before I even opened Malorie. I had enjoyed both Bird Box as a book and its film adaptation, so continuing with the second novel felt less like…
📝 First Impressions There are books that take a familiar idea and somehow make it feel fresh again. A Deadly Education did that for me almost immediately. On the surface, the premise sounds familiar enough: a school for magical children.…
📝 First Impressions Sometimes I don’t realise how much I miss a particular kind of book until I suddenly find myself holding one again. That was exactly what happened with Ceainicul fermecat și alte basme japoneze. I had been missing…
📝 First Impressions There are books you read because you are curious about somebody else’s life, and then there are books that unexpectedly make you think about your own. Bă, Țărane! did that for me. It is a very short…
