Showing posts with label duology. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 30 November 2016

BOOK REVIEW | THE ROSE AND THE DAGGER BY RENEE AHDIEH

Title: The Rose and the Dagger
Author: Renee Ahdieh
Published: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 416
Rating: 4/5

This review contains spoilers for 'The Wrath and the Dawn', book 1 in 'The Wrath and the Dawn' duology.

"In 'The Rose and the Dagger' we follow the aftermath of what happened to the city Rey and it's ruler who'm are both vulnerable. We follow the multiple characters we first got to meet in 'The Wrath and the Dawn' such as Shazrad, Khalid and Tariq."



It took me two and a halve month to finally finish this book. This was not because I didn't enjoy the book enough, it was all through the lack of time. I do think the fact that it took me so long to read this book, made me enjoy it a little less. I couldn't invest in the story as much as I wanted to, I think that once I will re-read this duology, in a short period of time, I will like it much better.

Anyhow, I did really enjoy this story. I really liked the setting and I liked where Renee brought this story. I loved the characters in this book and the writing style is great. almost poetical. 

Although I really loved it, it didn't live up to the kick-ass start we had in the first book. Therefor I gave this book 4/5. 



Saturday, 6 August 2016

BOOK REVIEW | THE ROSIE EFFECT BY GRAEME SIMSION

Title: The Rosie Effect
Author: Graeme Simsion
Published: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 432
Rating: 4/5







This review contains spoiler for 'The Rosie Project', book 1 in the Don Tillman duology. 

In 'The Rosie Effect' we follow Rosie and Don, now happily married living in New York. But they have to face new challenges because Rosie is pregnant!

I absolutely adored the first book in this duology and I had really high expectations for this book and although this was great, it did not live up to the expectations.

In this book we follow everything from Don's point of view, and Don is hilarious so that is fun. What I didn't have in the first book and did find in this book was, that Don sometimes said really embarrassing and stupid statements. At one point it was a little bit annoying but that went away quite quickly.

The writing style was exactly the same as in the first book which I had been enjoying a lot. Overall this was an enjoyable read.