Book 16/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsYoung Adult is my second favourite genre (after Romance) but I went into this with a 50-50 mix of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because I LOVE YA and trepidation because I was still nursing a book hangover from the Six of Crows duology and was worried the hangover … Continue reading Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Book 15/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsOn December 29, 2022 at the Chasing Paper Book Club inaugural in-person review, I met a few African women who all mentioned that they did not enjoy The Sex Lives of African Women as much as they thought they would. The general consensus was that the essays were … Continue reading The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Book 14/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars No mourners.No funerals. AND JUST LIKE THAT (snaps fingers) THE SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY IS MY FAVOURITE BOOK(S) OF ALL TIME!!It was THE MOST bittersweet feeling going into Crooked Kingdom because I loooooooved Six of Crows and was dyyyiiiiiiinnngggg to pick up the story where it ended. … Continue reading Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Book 13/30. My rating: 5 of 5 stars No mourners.No funerals. AND JUST LIKE THAT (snaps fingers) THE SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY IS MY FAVOURITE BOOK(S) OF ALL TIME!!Such a bold statement (literally 😅), especially from someone who has never really had a favourite book before, but wow this was beyond incredible!!! It took me … Continue reading Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Book 12/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsMarch is Women’s History Month and so the books I plan to read this month are all written by female authors 🤩💁‍♀️ Femi makes three, you know. Three, and they label you a serial killer. My Sister, the Serial Killer is a tale of two sisters, one of … Continue reading My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Book 11/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsMarch is Women’s History Month and so the books I plan to read this month are all written by female authors 🤩💁‍♀️I kicked things off with this little-known Kristin Hannah as she writes female characters sooo well! I’ve read 5 of her books so far (The Nightingale, Firefly … Continue reading Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah

Book 10/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsThis was one hell of a tome! My edition has 607 pages but that’s because the font is quite small and chapters are not spaced out to start on a different page. A lot of editions I have seen on Goodreads have well over 700/800 pages and there’s … Continue reading I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Book 9/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsThis was my fourth Colleen Hoover read, the first being the incomparable It Ends with Us which was a major 5 star read. I gave 4 stars to my next two CoHo reads, Ugly Love and Verity, though the latter was a much stronger 4 star read than … Continue reading November 9 by Colleen Hoover

Book 8/30. My rating: 2 of 5 stars1 ½ starsI’m not a believer in ½ stars when it comes to reviews, but this wasn’t bad enough for a 1 star rating (because I’ve read some bogus books) and it also wasn’t good enough for a 2 star rating, so here I am doling out a … Continue reading Educated by Tara Westover

Book 7/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsSeven Days in June was messier and darker than I thought it would be from the cover and synopsis and it took me a while to get behind such messy and dark MCs as Eva and Shane had isssuuueeessss!!!That said, halfway into this it was very clear it … Continue reading Seven Days in June by Tia Williams