📝 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 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 This The Spiderwick Chronicles series review contains no major spoilers. Some books leave you thinking about them for days. Others become instant favourites that you know you’ll revisit one day. The Spiderwick Chronicles wasn’t either of those…
