All the Books I’ve read in 2018 Part I

Seanan McGuire
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

2016
2017
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The Wayward Children series has become one of my favourites in 2018. These are novellas so they are fast reads, there are some beautiful prose and all in all, just magical. The first book was centered on Nancy and the second book is about the twins, Jack and Jill and the worlds that they have discovered or stumbled into but nevertheless, worlds that they cannot live without. We also meet the other children from Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, each with their own stories and yearning for that place where they truly belong.

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AJ Finn
The Woman in the Window

2018
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I enjoyed reading the Woman in the Window. Psychological  thriller is my go to genre and this one is pretty standard; an unreliable narrator, a plot twist or two and a film noir premise.

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Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

2015
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Totally unexpected! I’m not a scifi fan but Illuminae was so fun to read. The writing style is different, instead of a narrative this is full of illustration of spaceships, emails, chats and interviews. This targets young adult readers, so there is a romance but nothing cringey. The main characters, Kady and Ezra’s bantering are adorable, or as adorable as you can get while trying to stay alive in a spaceship with a homicidal AI and space zombies.

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Kate Leth and Megan Levens
Spell on Wheels (Spell on Wheels, #1)

2016
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This was such a disappointment, I was hoping for a fun witchy graphic novel but this was just boring. The plot is that, something was stolen from them and they retrieved it, nothing interesting happens in between then the end. I told you boring. I will not waste my time to read the next issue.

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Hubert and Kerascoët
Miss Don't Touch Me: Complete Set

2009
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The art for this graphic novel is the best part, it’s creepy and sexy at the same time. The story just did not deliver. I wish they focused on the mystery aspect and less vulgarity in the sexual scenes, which it also does not need.

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Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere

2017
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I love Celeste Ng’s style of writing, after reading this, I will be reading her other novel, Everything I Never Told You. Little Fires Everywhere is a dark and mysterious contemporary story about two families whose lives became intertwined in more ways than one. Mia Warren arrived in Shaker Heights, a middle class suburban town and rents a house from Elena Richardson, an epitome of white privilage and good intentions. Mia and her daughter Pearl has become the center of the Richardson’s interest. The dynamics between the two families and the unraveling of each characters are so engaging to read that I easily read this in two sittings.

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P.D. James
The Skull Beneath The Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2)

1982
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Cordelia Gray is one of my favourite mystery fiction characters, it’s too bad that there is not enough books in this series. I would have loved for Cordelia’s character to be fully developed. Cordelia is a smart and strong young woman, and owns her own detective agency which she inherited from old Bernie. The mystery is quite complex in this one however the story is quite dragging so even though I love Cordelia and the overall plot it still got a 3 star rating. Another thing worth mentioning is the ending or the resolution to the mystery, it will definitely challenge your morality.