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📝 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…
📝 First Impressions Some books catch my attention because of the author. Others because of the cover. And then there are books like Adler, where I only need to hear the premise before deciding that I absolutely have to know…
📝 First Impressions The Smurfs were part of my childhood long before I ever picked up one of their comic books. I first discovered them on Romanian television in the early 1990s, and I loved them. That little blue community…
📝 First Impressions The Witches is probably one of the Roald Dahl books that best demonstrates just how dark children’s fiction can become without losing its sense of fun. The premise is wonderfully disturbing: witches are real, they live among…
📝 First Impressions I have always had a soft spot for Roald Dahl’s books. There is something immediately recognisable about the way he tells a story: mischievous, slightly rebellious, sometimes surprisingly dark, but always written with an understanding of how…
📝 First Impressions Necropolis by Florin Pîtea is one of those books I have to look at a little differently now, simply because so much time has passed since I read it. I read it back in 2018, and I…
📝 First Impressions Lady Mechanika #0 caught my attention almost immediately because it combines two things I find difficult to resist visually: a Victorian-inspired world and steampunk. The machinery, elaborate costumes, strange technology and darker nineteenth-century atmosphere give the comic…
📝 First Impressions Never Lie by Freida McFadden starts with exactly the kind of setup I usually expect from Freida McFadden: simple, claustrophobic and immediately suspicious. Tricia and Ethan are newlyweds searching for a house when a snowstorm traps them…
