babel by r.f. kuang – a book review || an analysis on colonialism and history featuring cool magic

Babel (Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution) completely blew my mind away.

I read Babel a really long time ago, while I was knee deep in my dark academia phase, and it was utterly phenomenal. There’s no doubt that R.F. Kuang is a masterful storyteller, as clearly exhibited by The Poppy War trilogy ( which you should definitely read if you haven’t yet !!! ) but Babel took a completely different route than what I expected.

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if we were villains by m.l. rio – book review || dark academia, shakespearean societies, and a new favorite.

*clears throat* As always, I find it a never-ending need to explain my absence from this blog, but rest assured this time I think I’m here to stay for good.

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Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – Book Review

Can you believe it? Am I actually posting regularly-ish for once?(ahem by the time this is posted I’m not at all on schedule) This post was made possible because of me not studying for my exam – which is in like a day and I am NOT prepared and I may be having an internal breakdown, but oh well. Anyways I recently read Clockwork Angel and I’m obsessseeeddddd, so without further ado let us get onto my thoughts

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The Lunar Chronicles- Series Discussion

Hi, Hello and welcome today I’m going to be reviewing the lunar chronicles series! This is like a 4 in 1 special so yay? But anyways I read this series a while ago knowing basically nothing about it, and I really enjoyed it! I do feel that there were a few flaws scattered throughout the series, hence this discussion post! anyways without further ado lets gO (also this is going to be very long.)

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BONE GAP by Laura Ruby- Book Review

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Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. That’s just how things go, the people said. Who are you going to blame?

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