Sharp Objects
★★★☆☆
Disturbing story. Disturbing characters. This book will make you feel uncomfortable, that's what Gillian Flynn does best!
Project Hail Mary
★★★★★
This book is half science experiments, half wacky buddy comedy — and it just works so well! That nerdy glee I felt on every page of The Martian is back full force.
Thirteen Reasons Why
★★★★☆
Clay's crush is dead. Suicide. A couple of weeks later, he gets a box of tapes recorded by her, her suicide note, listing 13 reasons why she did take her own life. He is one of those 13...
The Last Wish
★★★★★
A simple way of putting it... a collection of tales about a man hunting monsters for money. But then, this book (and in fact, the whole series) is so much more...
The Maze Runner
★☆☆☆☆
Another young-adult dystopian science fiction, in the mould of The Hunger Games
The Fault in our Stars
★★★☆☆
A romance involving a young girl and boy, both in remission from cancer, told from the perspective of the girl Hazel
Last Argument of Kings
★★★★★
Final installment of the "First Law" trilogy. A worthy finale which highlights all the shades of grey...
Before They Are Hanged
★★★☆☆
Sequel to "The Blade Itself", there are three POVs again; a road trip led by a Wizard, a colonel struggling against a huge foe and an inquisitor fighting traitors and conspirators
The Blade Itself
★★★★★
Dark and gritty grimdark fantasy novel that doesn't rely on typical fantasy clichés
The Hate U Give
★★★★★
A look into the minds of the victims of racist police brutality, and what sends them over the breaking point
The Broken Earth Trilogy
★★★★★
A series so well written, that each book in the trilogy won a Hugo award. The final book also won the Nebula award.
The Windup Girl
★★★★★
A probable near-future scenario with rampant climate change and biological warfare.