Tag: fiction
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The Lord of the Rings
Storyline: 5 Stars I have not read the Lord of the Rings since I was in middle school, which was about 12-13 years ago. It was definitely different reading it from an adult perspective! Tolkien is an expert at storytelling. The characters, story, worldbuilding, are all wonderful. I really enjoy the worldbuilding because Tolkien inserts… Read more
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The Silent Patient
Storyline: 3 Stars I have been reading more thrillers lately, a book genre that I have not explored much. I think I am starting to become more fond of the genre, but maybe it is because I am reading the ones that I have seen have good reviews. Anyway, The Silent Patient is intriguing because… Read more
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Divine Rivals
Storyline: 4 Stars I knew that the Letters of Enchantment Duology was a fantasy, but I was not prepared for this type of fantasy. The world was different than other fantasy books that I have read. There was still advanced technology with the fantasy, and I appreciated that. It was a fresh take on fantasy… Read more
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Storyline: 4 Stars Time loops! I’ve read a few time loop-type books, but this one was well-written and everything came together at the end. There were a few things left open ended . . . Like what happened to the father in the end? Looking back, not everything makes complete sense, but I appreciate how… Read more
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Dark Matter
Storyline: 4 Stars I honestly did not know what I was getting into when I read this book. The cover looks absurd and I knew in general what dark matter was, but that was about it. I was pleasantly surprised with the book! It was unreal. The concept behind it is complicated in theory, but… Read more
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The Aurelian Cycle
Storyline: 4 Stars I had a friend rate this series highly on Goodreads and she’s an expert in fantasy which is why I picked these books up. This was actually my first fantasy series that focused on dragons (besides Tolkien). I haven’t been drawn to dragon stories before, but the series was so much more… Read more
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The Silmarillion
The Safe Pages Rating Romance There are some romantic stories, including Beren and Luthien, which is probably the most famous love story in Tolkein’s world. However, the romantic aspect is not detailed at all, characters barely even speak to each other. The book is a high level overview of some of the romances that take… Read more
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The Seven Year Slip
The Safe Pages Rating Romance The book is a romance, so it is not surprising that there is romantic content. There were two scenes that were intimate, about a page each, that I had to skip over because of the graphic content. The scenes seemed out of place because the rest of the book was… Read more
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Gone With The Wind
The Safe Pages Rating Romance Gone With the Wind is an epic novel that is centralized around the romance between Scarlet and Rhett. Scarlet flirts with a lot of men and she marries and has children, but there are not many intimate scenes. There are a few scenes of kissing, but nothing goes beyond that. Everything… Read more
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The Four Winds
The Safe Pages Rating Romance In the beginning of the book there were a couple short scenes of intimacy between a couple. It was not graphic and was a few sentences without any details, but they were scenes that I skipped over. Additionally, there is one scene later in the book where intimacy is implied,… Read more