Six of Crows
★★★☆☆
A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who has become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.
Shadow and Bone
★★★☆☆
First book of a YA fantasy series with excellent and rich world building and complex characters who are not all stark black-and-white.
The Water Knife
★★★★☆
Paolo's second ecological dystopian (cli-fi?) novel sets the action in the arid American south west, where water is the most precious commodity.
Beautiful Creatures
★☆☆☆☆
An unholy mess involving witches & wizards, reincarnation, American civil war, its re-enactment, a teenage romance and the insular mindset of deep south America.
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