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📝 First Impressions I have a slightly complicated relationship with Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu’s books. I absolutely love her crime novels, but her attempts at historical fiction have never worked nearly as well for me. That is why Răzbunarea sluților felt like…
📝 First Impressions I picked up Crăciunul în cele mai frumoase povestiri expecting exactly what the title promised: a collection of beautiful Christmas stories. Something warm, atmospheric, maybe a little nostalgic, the kind of book you can read in December…
📝 First Impressions I read Wyrm for the Nemira reading club, and one of the things I remember most clearly is how much discussion the book generated afterwards. We talked about Orson Scott Card’s recurring fascination with gifted children, about…
📝 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…
