Book Reviews

Here you can find all of my book reviews!

My favourite genres are historical fiction, mystery and dystopia.

All Fiction Non-fiction
Devotion
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino
Fiction · Mystery · Thriller
★★★★

When Yasuko moves into her apartment with her daughter, she hopes to finally live a quiet, comfortable life. But all that changes the day her ex-husband shows up at her door.

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Devotion
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fiction · Mystery · Young Adult · Romance
★★★

If you’ve ever stumbled into the booktok side of Tiktok then you have probably heard of The Inheritance Games. It follows Avery Kylie Grambs, a highschooler who suddenly inherits billions of dollars when a famous billionaire named Tobias Hawthorne to whom she has no connection, dies. But, of course, there’s a catch.

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Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Fiction · Fantasy
★★★★★

Six of Crows is a duology made up of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. In the first book, a city noble offers calculating thief Kaz Brekker an impossible heist. It’s a lucrative offer, but he’ll have to put together a team to pull it off.

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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
Essays · Memoir
★★★★★

Solnit writes about loss and wandering with a precision that feels impossible for subject matter this amorphous. Getting lost as practice, a way of remaining alive to the world.

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Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty
Non-fiction · Economics
★★★★

Piketty's grand historical argument — that capital accumulates faster than economies grow — is compelling even where flawed. A book that changed how we talk about wealth.

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Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Poetry · Essay
★★★★★

A work that refuses genre like it refuses easy comfort. Moving between poetry, essay, and visual art to document the accumulated weight of racial microaggression in America.

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