Legendborn: Criminally underhyped

Author: Tracy Deonn Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shortly after she is accepted to the Early College programme at UNC Chapel Hill, Bree’s mother dies in a car crash. Fast forward three months, and Bree is starting the programme at UNC while still coping with the death of her mother when she starts to notice strange things around... Continue Reading →

Estates: An Intimate History

Author: Lynsey Hanley Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book traces the history of council housing in the UK, which is housing owned by the local authority and usually rented to low-income people for a fraction of the price of market rent. Most council housing was built after World Wars I and II in an attempt to clear... Continue Reading →

Kleptopia: A story worthy of an HBO series

Author: Tom Burgis Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book was written by an investigative journalist and tells an intricate and far-reaching story about corruption, criminals, dirty money and how they’re linked into power structures throughout the world. The author traces the struggles of a banker trying to hold is employer to account for their efforts to help... Continue Reading →

Trespassers on the Roof of the World

Author: Peter Hopkirk Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a book about various people who tried to reach Tibet, largely in the late 1800s to early-mid 1900s. Tibet is a famously isolated country. There was a lot of intrigue surrounding it as well as a lot of fascination, especially in the West with the mythical aura around... Continue Reading →

The Fake Mate: A Fun Time

Author: Lana Ferguson Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I honestly wasn’t expecting much from this book as it seems like the author might have written it after picking a handful of tropes out of a hat, but, whether or not that was the origin of this story, I actually had a fun time with this. This book is... Continue Reading →

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