Andye Reads

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was absolute perfection for me! Addie LaRue meets The Originals (or Interview with a Vampire, or Empire of the Vampire, or whatever dark vampire story you want to insert), and I was completely CONSUMED. "What grows in the midnight soil is not a different flower, only a bolder bloom." I knew from the first chapter that this book and I were going to get along splendidly. I absolutely love Schwab's writing and I honestly think this may have been some of the best prose she's crafted. I swear I could've highlighted something in every paragraph. I was absolutely giddy just to feel something so deeply and love something so much so quickly. I honestly didn't even care how the story was going to unfold because I was enjoying the journey so much. Fortunately, the story and the characters were also incredible and I loved every minute of it. While I was giddy reading it, don't think...

by R.F. Kuang My rating: 3 of 5 stars (I haven't settled on a star rating yet. 2-3 stars I believe) Thank you Harper Audio for an early audiobook copy of this book. The audiobook narrators did a fantastic job and really enhanced my enjoyment of BABEL. I thought the way they handled the footnotes was quite well done, and the main narrator, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, did a phenomenal job with voices and emotion throughout. I would definitely recommend this on audio. Review: I, like every bookish person I know, was highly anticipating BABEL. When I was sent the audiobook, I dove in immediately. There were definitely things that I really loved about the book, but those things tended to be on the educational and informational side and not on the story itself. I found the world of Babel to be fascinating. The way language was used in the book is such a perfect metaphor for how important, manipulative, destructive, and motivating language can be in life. There were incredibly relevant and compl...

Hey BookTok! It's finally here. The list you've been waiting for. Here are all the books (well, not quite all the books, but I'm working on it) that I've talked about and loved on BookTok ! I will try to fill in the gaps and keep this updated as much as possible. Some of the links are affiliate links, so thanks in advance for fueling my *almost* library ( iykyk ). If you have any suggestions of books I should read, let me know in the comments. Fantasy The Demon King The Burning Sky City of Brass Finnikin of the Rock Clockwork Angel Six of Crows White Cat Malice Blood Scion ADSoM DoS&B Strange the Dreamer Truthwitch The Winner's Curse Crown of Feathers To Kill a Kingdom All of Us Villains Only a Monster Year of the Reaper Graceling A Song of Wraiths and Ruin Daughter of the Pirate King Raybearer Under the Never Sky Standalones Brightly Woven Boneless...