#one star
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | Book Review
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | Book Review
Genre: fantasy, dark academia (debatable)
Pages: 459
This book pissed me off; I wanted to like it, but its faults are so enormous. I DNF’ed it 60% in, should’ve been much earlier, but I had hopes considering the author.
Rating out of five: one star
I love dark academia, I love books with “darker” or morally gray protagonists, I’m even a fan of messy and disorganized plots. This book is too…
My Disappointment in The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman | Book Review
My Disappointment in The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman | Book Review
Trigger warnings (!!!): sexual assault, attempted gang rape
Genre: fantasy
Pages: 780
My thoughts
One out of five stars.
I’m just not okay with the accumulated wrongs of this book. Like of having Malcolm, a scholar in his thirties who both rescued Lyra from a flood as a baby, watched her sucking a fairy’s titty and tried to tutor her, declaring his romantic love for Lyra, now twenty. If not…