Well, well, well, R.F. Kuang, you really surprised me.

First of all, I found this incredible and really informative post of Everything You Need to Know Before You Read "The Poppy War" by R.F. Kuang, which I highly recommend to read before to pick up this trilogy. Also, read the trigger warnings before. They might be helpful!

I started this book last year and didn't finish it before because I haven't bought books 2 and 3 yet, not because this book was boring. Trust me, The Poppy War is anything, except boring.

The Poppy War is a book filled with history and East Asian culture, as Tiffany says in her post. I honestly haven't read The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even know what had happen in China during WWII, and I do like history, but after this, I'm going to pick Iris' book and educate myself on the matter.

The premise of The Poppy War is amazing. It's captivating and for sure you don't expect many of the things that are about to happen.

This isn't a book with romance and a happy ending. Please don't pick it up if you expect romance.

I guess one of the reasons why it took me so long to finish it, beside of not having books 2 and 3, is because it's heavy. There's a lot of history and I had to do some research of some things, and I also took my time reading every chapter... Also, uni is killing me. Please, bear me. It happened the same with The Way of Kings.

Anyway.

There's a lot of rage and hatred. Gods, I can't even start to explain how much I was amazed of Altan's anger or Rin's hatred.

The characters were amazing. Rin, Kitay, Altan, even Nezha, Jiang, etc.

I admire Rebecca's way to tell a story, to make it so powerful, and yet so emotional and raw. And human. I felt Rin's anger and hatred, I wanted to shatter the world after chapters 20 and 21. After everything she saw and experienced. I was shocked and I had to close my book and take a few minutes to put my shit together and stop crying at the brutality that was narrated in those chapters.

Yeah, I read the trigger warnings, but still, once you reach those chapters (especially chapter 21)... I could not think of anything else that the masacre and the brutality, the despair and the anger. Holy shit. I was so pissed off and after some things that I've read of the atrocities committed by the imperial Japanese soldiers in real life.

No. I just coulnd't.

I had to brace myself to keep reading. I admit that I was crying so bad when Venka was telling her story and the story of some other women... It was really hard.

Part I is all fun and games (not fun and games in its entirety, but you get me), and part II and III are the real deal. Despite of reading the synopsis and some reviews without spoilers, I still didn't know what to expect, or what I was really getting into.

However, The Poppy War is now one of my favorite books and Rebecca Kuang one of my favorite authors. To being her debut novel, The Poppy War is brutal, full of rage, hatred, shamanism, death and death. I'm deeply in love with her writing style, with her characters and the way to depict war and human emotions. How humans play with forces beyond their understanding and with powers that they can't dominate entirely.

I kind of hated Nezha at the beginning, but now I need to know if he's okay or I'll se this world on fire.

This is, by far, one of the best books I've ever read.

Also, if I said something that was off, please let me know and I gladly will correct it and educate myself about it.

 Many thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

Oh, gods, I really missed Catherine Walsh's books. One Night Only and The Rebound were pretty good and I like her books.

Katie Collins has always lived in her little town, Ennisbawn, feeling comfortable and happy... Until one day some guys start to build a big ass hotel, disturbing Katie's sleep and making her grumpy. And then, she mets Callum Dempsey, a really hot guy who's planning to knock down Ennisbawn and take away the pub: the place where Katie works and has spent a lot of time there.

This was really cute. I love the descriptions of Irish places/towns because they make me feel like I'm there (and I want to. I'll sell my kidney to go and live in Ireland, lmao). The romance was good and cute.

Somehow, some CW's characters remind me of Luke from Gilmore Girls. Luke (from The Rebound) reminds me of him, and also in this book, Adam seems like Luke as well!

CW's mcs are really amazing and wonderful, but her side characters are always the one who steal my heart. In this case, Granny Maeve really is my favorite. She's amazing and for a moment I was about to cry for her, but ma queen knows better. Nush, Gemma, Adam, Noah, Frank, and even Jack were pretty great, I loved them all.

I liked this book as well. And I need a book of Nush and Monica!

It was funny, cute, emotional and great!

 I can't believe what I just read.

Those 7 words have to summarize how I feel. But not in a bad way! Hell no.

Project Hail Mary it's my very first Andy Weir book, and I'm sure as hell that it won't be the last book that I read.

It's been 2 days since I finished it and I'm still trying to gather my thoughts and write a proper review because I'm speechless.

Ryland Grace is the science teacher that I've always wanted. I would have learned a lot from him and it would have impulsed me to study some science career or even astronomy (which was one of my biggest dreams ever). I'm a nerd as well and this book felt so warm and my heart was really happy while reading it.

Anyways, Ryland Grace wakes up from a coma, findinm himself in a spaceship and that he doesn't remember a single thing. Not even his own name. However, he thinks he's not alone, because two of his crewmates are with him... Only to find out that they're dead. Like very dead. Well, damn, he's alone. In space.

He tries so hard to remember why he's on the spaceship and what's the purpose of this travel... But the answer is not something that he will like.

As he start to remember things, Ryland finds out that he's the only one that can help humanity and Earth to not to die and find a solution to a problem: a bacteria that's eating the Sun's energy. However, he finds that he's not alone in space as he thought.

This book is well written. Is a mix of a bunch of experiments and dark humor at some parts. It's the perfect mix for me!

Andy Weir really surprised me! Sure, I don't know many things about physics or chemistry as I wished, but the more I read, the more I searched some of those things and they made sense. Ryland's passion for science is wonderful. I found myself wishing I could be a scientist too!

I was anxious the whole time, not knowing what was going to happen next, not knowing if Ryland was going to make the Hail Mary explode or if he was going to die in one of his crazy experiments.

I loved the feeling of hope, anxiety, almost dying of several heart attacks, comedy, relief, angst and hope. Hope above all.

This book is something wonderful and brilliant at its best. Andy Weir did an amazing job in here and it's now definitely one of my favorite books ever.

I highly recommend it if you like science, crazy teachers who loves his students and is passioned for what he does, and really weird humor. I totally loved it!

 First of all, thanks to Kate Golden for sending me a digital copy in exchange of an honest review! I really appreciate it, and if you read it, lol, I'm sorry I didn't reply your e-mail before!

I gotta admit that I'm always reluctant when it comes to books that are compared to ACOTAR or FBAA because I really dislike those series and I teared them apart, lol. But I decided to give it a try and it did not disappointed me as much as I thought it would do.

The premise is captivating!

I was in.

The writing style is really pretty, I liked the worldbuilding and how fast paced was the book. The descriptions of places and creatures were beautiful and I was totally in love. Dear Kate, please allow me to live in Onyx or Peridot, I need to go there asap!

The characters were okay. They weren't bad though. I did have some issues with some of them (like Bert, Halden and Lazarus, cofcof, those bastards), even with Arwen y Kane.

I did however wanted to kick Arwen and Kane a couple of times, for their actions and decisions, but I was intrigued for their chemistry, and some tension, yas!

Some plots were predictable and I saw them coming. However, that doesn't mean that they were bad. To the contrary, I wanted to know more!

I'll be waiting for book two because I need some damn answers and blood!