"The smoke smelled of burning pine needles, dark and sweet." This was my first contact with the author, and I can safely say I have become a fan. 'Small Favors' is a very atmospheric book. The writing pulled me in instantly and I felt completely absorbed by this story, even to the point of reading …
Autor: Ketelen Lefkovich
Vinte e três invernos e muitos livros na bagagem. Em 2011 criou o Prateleira de Ideias. Nascida em Curitiba e agora se aventurando por Londrina, coleciona pessoas e memórias dos lugares que já morou e sonha em conhecer o mundo. Apelidada pela família de "Devoradora de Livros", se alimenta deles no café, almoço e jantar. Bacharela em Estudos Literários pela UEL. Livros, música, café e o frio são algumas de suas paixões, incluindo os personagens de seus livros favoritos. Já foi entrevistada para Folha de Londrina duas vezes e apareceu em diversas colunas sociais da cidade. Ela acha que nunca é tarde para se escrever uma boa história.
The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix
"Because no matter how hard we try, we can't stop life. No matter how much we fight, no matter how many we kill, things keep changing, and growing, and living, and people get lost, and fall away, and come back, and get born and move on, and no matter what it's all so much, it's …
The Taking of Jake Livingston – Ryan Douglass
I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't.The Taking of Jake Livingston sounds promising, but it's overall a mess. Very little about the paranormal aspect is explained, I still don't really understand the gist of it. There's astral projection, an ecto goo(?) Angry ghouls and yeah nothing is coherent or fully fleshed out. …
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For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing
For Your Own Good is my first book by Samantha Downing. It is the dark academia book I’ve been craving for. Here we follow the narration of several characters, but our main protagonist is Teddy Crutcher, a professor at Belmont Academy, a private school. What I love most about reading his point of view is …
Prosper’s Demon – K.J. Parker
This marks my 1000 book read! Wohoo (cue to a spontaneous dance party, okay now the review) "Because art," he said, "is beauty, and beauty is the essence of goodness made visible or audible. When you look at a beautiful statue or listen to beautiful music, you are looking at and listening to beauty which …
Crave – Tracy Wolff
"Long enough for me to see the silver flecks in the midnight of his eyes—distant stars shining through the darkness he makes no attempt to hide." I just lost a chunk of this review and not I don't even remember what was written but well. I didn't go into this book with to much expectations, …
