🇬🇧 bookish reviews 🇳🇱
This is the book I didn’t know I needed! I never knew it could be THIS awesome to have a book set in your own country and your own culture! To know all the references like what being from the Bijlmer means and all the Amsterdam ethnic diversity that makes the city so beautiful. But… Continue reading On the Edge of Gone (Op de rand van het niets) by Corinne Duyvis
This is one of my top 10 anticipated releases of 2019... A Beauty and the Beast retelling with a girl with a disabilty as MC? Sign me on! Ok disabled MC would've been enough to hook me of course since I am chronically ill myself and am always looking for representation. Also, I think it… Continue reading A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
I finished this book in two sittings. However, those sittings were a year apart 😂 Let's say I'm just not good with illness self help books. After 20+ years and so much advocating I figure there is nothing new they can tell me. The only reason I picked up this book is because it's Ilana's,… Continue reading Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness by Ilana Jacqueline
This book is very different from the Star-touched Queen, both in writing style as in story telling, but it is just as amazing! Historical fantasy is my favorite, and this one is executed really well! For me, what really worked were the characters. So much diversity, and even an autistic girl! We're already underrepresented in… Continue reading The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Umbertouched was one of my most anticipated releases of 2018. And it didn't disappoint! Why am I reading this now? Well, pneumonia and 4 other infections at the same time were a bit distracting so I lost the month of December and half of January entirely. I waited until I was well enough because I… Continue reading Umbertouched by Livia Blackburne
The average of all the short stories combined is 3,92, but I’m still debating giving it 5 stars just because we need more of these books. I laughed and cried and felt all the stories and all the tiny recognisable things that we disabled/chronically ill people have in common. There was a lot of recognition… Continue reading Unbroken by Marieke Nijkamp eo
There are not many christian themed fantasy/dystopian books apart from Narnia, and especially not in YA. At least, not that I know of and there definitely aren’t any in Dutch stores. And I think that’s a shame. Well, not that everything should be christian, but I think it would have helped younger me to read… Continue reading A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes
I rarely do reviews. I don’t think I’m good at them, and it’s not easy when English is your second language. But for this book I’m making an exception. Why? Because it is AWESOME. It’s one of my favorite reads this year. And you know what? I didn’t saw that coming at all, I thought… Continue reading Rosemarked by Livia Blackburne
Yellow Mockingjay 