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Hi // Hallo
Onder de sproeten en vol met ideeën. Brede interesse, neus voor altijd iets nieuws en laden vol verhalen. Altijd in de boek zijn haar boeken, die bijna net zo belangrijk voor haar zijn als zuurstof. Vaak leest ze die in het Engels en de meningen er over zullen dus ook in het Engels volgen. In…
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A Dangerous Collaboration
Deanna Raybourn, A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, Berkley 2020 I’m so used to Victorian-time-based stories being written in a contemporary style that this one took me a moment to get used to From Victorian Times attempt. Wasn’t very plussed by any of it, didn’t mind it either.
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Recent films
Black Beetle – didn’t even finish it; how do you manage to make action comic book films so boring? Black Adam – how do you manage to make action comic books so boring? Finished it by cutting out all action scenes, slow motion and Dwayne’s monologues Love Lies Bleeding – er, what the fuck? The…
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Anna O
Matthew Blake, HarperCollins 2024 Pfrt. Pfrrrrrt! This was supposed to be super tense and thrilling? This? With page-long descriptions of how the male protagonist looks like? Shame, because the element was kinda cool, but instead of scifi detective we got a male midlife crisis.
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Jackal
Erin E. Adams, Bantam Books 2022 I feel a bit disappointed that the “supernatural or not?”-question arrived and was answered so late – felt like I couldn’t fit that information into the rest of the story. Which was scary in a realistic depressing way.
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Shannon Chakraborty, HarperCollins 2023 Hot damn this was good. Epic fantasy, non-western mythology, Middle-Eastern setting but/and pirates and a protagonist that is grumpy and stubborn as fuck. Five stars.
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I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Claire Vaye Watkins, Riverhead Books 2021 The second POV kind of ruined this for me. It started out powerful, eerie, nasty and then – fitting because of its surroundings – slowly drowned in quicksand.
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HOPE
Andrew Ridker, Viking 2023 It started out well – rich family gets problems of their own making, falls apart – but then focuses on the least interesting people. Shame.
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Girlfriend on Mars
Deborah Willis, Hamish Hamilton 2023 Wow. Holy shit. I was already enjoying myself with the commentary on social media and tech-billionaires but Willis made things Very Real and Serious in the last thirty-ish pages of the book and now I’m a bit devastated.
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Terug op de achterbank
Olivier Willemsen, De Harmonie 2023 Zalig, pijnlijk, zeer herkenbaar, hartstikke lekker. Is dit ieders voorland?
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