🇬🇧 bookish reviews 🇳🇱
🇬🇧 English below 🇬🇧 Deze hele trilogie is bewonderenswaardig. Zoveel verbeelding, zoveel diepte en thematiek, en tegelijk breekt het je hart en een hele wrede wereld (vrij letterlijk ook, haha!). Ik ben er stil van, dit is één van de meest unieke werelden die ik ooit heb gelezen. Er is veel diversiteit wat ik geweldig… Continue reading The Stone Sky (De stenen hemel) – NK Jemisin
🇳🇱 Dutch below 🇳🇱 The Fifth Season truly is a fantasy like no other. A unique world, which has seen multiple Seasons (aka apocalyptic events caused by an unstable earth). The people that survived made Stonelore, rules that help optimal survival, and everyone knows them. The story is told from three perspectives, one of them… Continue reading The Fifth Season (Het vijfde seizoen) – N.K. Jemisin
Sisters of Sword and Song by Rebecca Ross is a YA fantasy standalone. And that’s one of the many things I love about it: no waiting for sequels! I really wish there were more fantasy standalones, and Rebecca Ross clearly proves that it can be done to have a whole new world captured in one… Continue reading Sisters of Sword and Song – Rebecca Ross
When I think about Storm of the East I honestly can’t form thoughts. I thought it would be better after a few weeks but I’m afraid it didn’t really. Athan, Aurelia and all the other characters have taken up residence in my head have turned said head into a giant ball of feels. Nevertheless I… Continue reading Storm from the East – Joanna Hathaway
🇬🇧 English below 🇬🇧 De ijzige verloofde is het eerste van vier delen in De Spiegelpassante serie van Christelle Dabos. Ik heb op aanvraag het ebook mogen lezen voor #hebbanbuzz maar mijn mening is daardoor niet beïnvloed, en dat bewijst zichzelf denk ik wel als ik vertel dat ik het fysieke boek zelf heb gekocht omdat ik… Continue reading De ijzige verloofde / A Winter’s Promise – Christelle Dabos
I just has to use my grandmother’s distribution cards she used in World War 2 for this picture Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway was quite a suprise for me, it feels like I have discovered a hidden pearl and now need to show it to everyone because it’s so awesome! I honestly can’t… Continue reading Dark of the West – Joanna Hathaway
Before She Ignites features Mira Minkoba, a girl who’s become the face of a treaty signed between the nations of the seven isles. She is a political figurehead, who gets told what to say by the government. However, when she stumbles across something she shouldn’t have seen, her peaceful luxurious life (with an awesome baby… Continue reading Before She Ignites – Jodi Meadows
Wow this was quite the ride! I adored the concept of this book: through some sort of epileptic seizures Nolan gets a glimp of a whole other world through the eyes of a girl named Amara every time he closes his own eyes. That can be a blink, a whole night’s sleep, and it even… Continue reading Otherbound – Corinne Duyvis
Crown of Feathers by Nikki Pao Preto was not what I expected, it was so much better! I expected cool phoenixes and a simple YA action based plot, instead I got treated to a wonderfully complex world, phoenixes that bond with humans, and animages who can talk to all animals. I cannot express my love… Continue reading Crown of Feathers by Nikki Pau Preto
There have been 6 apocalypses, 6 suns that have died and were brought back alive by sacrifice of the gods. The seventh sun has been in the sky for hundreds of years, but the days grow shorter... But that might be the least of prince Ahkin’s worries, as his father has suddenly passed away and… Continue reading The Seventh Sun by Lani Forbes
I bought the special Iskari book box from Blossom Books (Dutch publisher), and it was amazing! Forgot to photograph the tote bag though 🤦🏻♀️ 🇳🇱 Nederlands onderaan 🇳🇱It is official: this series is going in my forever favorites, alongside Harry Potter, The Infernal Devices and Narnia. This is the highest honor as I usually wait… Continue reading The Sky Weaver (Iskari 3: De piratendief) by Kristen Ciccarelli
Be aware that this review will have spoilers for Mark of the Raven and Flight of the Raven as this is the third book in this series! Please do not read any further if you haven’t read those! I try to keep spoilers at a minimum but some can’t be avoided. In Cry of the… Continue reading Cry of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse (The Ravenwood Saga 3)
“For the girl who is not okay. For the boy who wonders if it’ll ever get better. This story is for you.” In Coral we follow 3 different characters: mermaid Coral, the human girl Brooke and a boy named Merrick. Before this story starts, the author gives a special trigger warning, and that one already… Continue reading Coral by Sara Ella
“You’ve had one moment of clarity and now you think you have all the answers.” She gave a grim smile. “Take a breath, Thomas. There has always been fear. There will always be fear. It’s up to us to stand tall, even when the fear demands we bow down to it.” Why is it always… Continue reading Fawkes by Nadine Brandes
No yellow couch today, but I hope I’m making it up with hand sewn tiny boats! 😉 I still can’t believe I got an e-arc for The Girl the Sea Gave Back. One of my most anticipated releases of 2019! Sky in the Deep was one of the few 5 star reads of 2018 so… Continue reading The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young
Ben ik heel erg als ik zeg dat dit eigenlijk gewoon een gevalletje mooie cover is? Ik zag hem, en ik wilde hem. Toen zag ik dat er een signeersessie was bij boekhandel Veenendaal en toen wilde ik er meteen heen - maar de boekhandel in Veenendaal zat dicht. Het was boekhandel Veenendaal in Amersfoort.… Continue reading De Zwendelprins van Rima Orie
Flight of the Raven starts exactly where Mark of the Raven ends. If you’ve read it, you’ll know what I mean but let me just say it’s pretty spectacular and YOU JUST NEED TO KNOW MORE. Well, we definitely got to know more! The journey goes on to Damien’s kingdom and there we have a… Continue reading Flight of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse
“The bond of family spans miles, memory and time.” Romanov was my most anticipated book of 2019. I love Nadine’s writing, the A Time to Die series changed my life (or at least my perspective on life), and then Fakwes, which made me doubt alongside Thomas in what was right and wrong and how to… Continue reading Romanov by Nadine Brandes
I must say, I had a rough start but it turned into AWESOME. I didn’t like the MC Aspasia at all and that lasted like half the book... After the truly wonderful kind person that is Shalia (MC of book 1), Aspasia is very much the opposite, she’s very closed and very morally grey and… Continue reading Imprison the Sky by AC Gaughen
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
Yellow Mockingjay 