It’s time for
monthly reading recap. This month I read more books than I expected, only one
more though. I win a Goodreads
giveaway and the book came in the middle of May so I feel like I should read
and reviewed it as soon as possible. Though I only ended up writing a very
short review of that book on Goodreads.
Well then, without further a do, let’s continue to this month reading recap.
These are all the books I read on May 2017:
1) Good Ol’ Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz (3★)
I got this book
when I visited Big Bad Wolf (BBW) Jakarta this year. For you who don’t know
what BBW is, it’s a huge book fair in Southeast Asia cuntries. The books were
majorly taken from BookXcess as a book clearence sales. This is the second
times they held it in Jakarta, and I have visited both times.
This book brings
back a lot of good memory, it feels so nostalgic. Though to be honest I find
some story not as funny as I remember it. I think it’s because my humor sense has
changed through the years. Nevertheless, it’s still a very pleasant reading and
I enjoy it.
Purchase Good
Ol’ Charlie Brown from: Bookdepository.
2) Perbudakan Seksual (Sexual Slavery) by Anna
Mariana (4★)
This book is so hard
to read and so hard to reviewed. It’s hard to read not because I don’t like
this book, but because the topic of this book is heavy and grim. I have to stop
from moment to moment just to take a breath and think. As for why is this book
is hard to reviewed, it’s because I want to do this book justice. I honestly
think that everyone in Indonesia needs to read this book at least once in their
lives. Up until now, the majority of Indonesian don’t really wants to open up
about this topic, they consider it as something taboo. But as for me, I
honestly think we should talk about it more so that we can really learned from
it and prevent those horrible things from happening again.
Read my review
of Perbudakan Seksual (Sexual Slavery) by
Anna Mariana here.
Purchase Perbudakan
Seksual from: Marjin Kiri Publisher (Indonesia only)
3) City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
(4.5★)
Dear YA authors,
please make more books like City of Saints and Thieves. I used this term a lot
when I talk about this book, but really, this book feels like a breath of fresh
air in YA genre. This book is not perfect and there are still some YA tropes
that I kind of wish won’t be used by the authors, but I really like this book
and I honestly think it’s one of the most well-written YA mystery and thriller
I’ve ever read.
Read my review
of City of Saints and Thieves here.
Purchase City
of Saints and Thieves from: Bookdepository.
I bought this
book three years ago when I visited a used book stall in Singapore for a light
read on the road. Though at the end, I’ve never got a chance to read this book
because my schedule in Singapore was so thight. But this year one of the prompt
from this year Pop Sugar Reading Challenge is a book I got from used book sale
so I think it’s time for me to read this book. For me this book is just kind of
meh. It’s not bad but it’s not good enough for me. There’s one story that I
kind of like but the other stories in this book still outweighed the good one.
Purchase The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow from: Amazon.
5) A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (4.8★)
I have to be
honest and said that this is not Maas’ best book and it’s not the best book in
the trilogy. For me the best book in this trilogy is still ACOMAF. That being said I love this
book. Yes, it has many flaws if you see it only as the last book in Feyre’s arc
trilogy. BUT, if like me, you see ACOWAR as a book which starts the stories for
upcoming books in ACOTAR universe, then this book really does this job. I love
the new characters, my ultimate ship almost sail, my lowkey ship looks like
they’re going to sail too, the character developments is good, my otp kiss, all
is pretty good. I might write the full review after I got a chance to reread
this book again.
Purchase A
Court of Wings and Ruin from: Bookdepository.
6) The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan (4.5★)
Of all the
things that Rick Riordan has done, I never thought he could make me love a
magic arrow who gives prophecy in shakespearan English. This book is such a
great sequel to The Hidden Oracle and
I adore the Arrow of Dodona. Though I have to admit that I found The Hidden Oracle a bit more funny than
this one. Just like in The Hidden Oracle the one point that really make this
book shines and stood up among other Riordan series is Apollo character
development’s arc and his personality.
I also do a
reread of The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympian #1) by Rick
Riordan. One character from this book is coming back at the end of The Dark
Prophecy and I can’t wait to see them helping Apollo in the third installment
of Trials of Apollo series.
Purchase The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan on
Bookdepository.
Remember about
that book I win from Goodreads giveaway? This book is that book. Elyora really has a good premise and I was
actually excited when I know I won. But the pace of this book is too fast and
the writings make it hard for me to distinguished each narratives. Everything
feel so rushed that I feel like I’m reading a summary instead of the book
itself. Also, I think the reasoning behind some characters actions are forced
and not strong enough. There’s also a smut scene in this book, which actually
quite surprised me. I enjoy that scene, not gonna lie, but I really don’t think
that it was necessary for the author to described that part in such details. If
only the author focused more on developing the mystery part rather than that
smut scene, maybe this book could be better.
I also managed
to fit some of them into four prompts of Pop Sugar Reading Challenge this year:
1. The Lightning
Thief - A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile
2. The Dark
Prophecy - A book written by someone you admire
3. City of
Saints and Thieves - A book about an immigrant or a refugee
4. The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow - A book you got from used book sale
And that’s it.
Those are all the books I read in May. I’m glad that I managed to read more
than 5 books this month because that means I’m done with my book hangover.
Though I have to admit I’m quite surprised that I don’t have any book hangover
after I finished ACOWAR. I have planned all the books I want to read in June,
some of them are ARCs I got from Net Galley, and I’m so excited. Wish me luck!
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