Kategorie: 5 Star Reads

• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Heather Fawcett)

  

  This book was an unexpected delight! (…)

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  13. Mai 2023

  2023 Releases, 5 Star Reads, Allgemein, Book Series, cozy, fantasy, Female Author, LGBTQ+, Romance

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• Howl’s Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)

  

  Want something heartwarming, light, quirky and fun? Then I can just recommend you to read „Howl’s Moving Castle“ by Diana Wynne Jones. (…)

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  11. Mai 2023

  5 Star Reads, Allgemein, Book Series, cozy, fantasy, Female Author, Romance

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• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Shannon Chakraborty)

  

  Easiest. 5 stars. Ever. This was pure enjoyment! I love me a good pirate story and somehow Shannon Chakraborty managed to put all the elements I love together in this book, which is – thank God – the first one in a new series (The Amina-al-Sirafi Series). This book was a blast from the first…

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  21. April 2023

  2023 Releases, 5 Star Reads, Allgemein, Book Series, fantasy, Female Author, LGBTQ+, strong female character

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• Galatea (Madeline Miller)

  

  I stand with Madeline Miller concerning the interpretation of the greek myth. The Pygmalion myth is a prime example of misogyny and fetishization of female bodies and „pure character“ for the male pleasure. (…)

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  7. April 2023

  5 Star Reads, Allgemein, fantasy, Female Author, Feminist Literature, Mythology Retelling, strong female character

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• Bunny (Mona Awad)

  

  What a ride! What an absurd, surreal, bizarre, demonic ride. This is not a book, this is a journey – and a deeply unsettling one at that. Funny though at times as well. Hard to describe, hence why I just use a lot of adjectives here. This was awesome! (…)

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  4. April 2023

  5 Star Reads, Allgemein, Bizarre, fantasy, Horror

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• Circe (Madeline Miller)

  

  Greek Mythology and I, thats a story that didn’t go too well in the past. Not that I was not interested, I love mythological tales in itself (although I was more drawn to the nordic gods of my german ancestors in general). But with greek mythology there always was this very prominent stance of misogyny…

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  19. März 2023

  5 Star Reads, Allgemein, fantasy, Mythology Retelling, strong female character

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• Godkiller (Hannah Kaner)

  

  Hannah Kaners ‚Godkiller‘ is an epic fantasy tale that lives off of world building, a page-turning plot as well as likeable and deeply human characters. A beautiful tale about a world where gods were part of the everyday life before they were banished for good, or were they?

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  12. März 2023

  5 Star Reads, Allgemein, Book Series, fantasy, strong female character

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• Demon Copperhead (by Barbara Kingsolver)

  

  I got caught up in telling her all this and almost forgot my messed-up life, because in some ways she was worse off than me. She’d never seen a lightning bug. That is just tragic. I told her the different ones. One kind goes totally dark, then they all blink together, thousands, one big sparkly…

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  11. März 2023

  5 Star Reads, Award Winners, Literary Fiction, memoir

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