Review: A Dead Djinn in Cairo

Hello dear reader(s) and welcome back to the blog. In today’s short & sweet instalment of Nessa reads books and writes reviews (NRBWR) I’m introducing you to P. Djeli Clark’s fascinating steampunk urban fantasy novelette A Dead Djinn in Cairo. Moreover, you can read it for free on Tor.com, so there’s absolutely no excuse for anyone not to read some untraditional fantasy!

 

Review: Heart-Shaped Box

Hello dear reader(s) and welcome to another instalment of Nessa reads books and writes reviews (NRBWR). I’m writing this review ahead of my biweekly book club where we’ll discuss Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box, the book we chose to read and talk about. Furthermore, I managed to finish the book 4 days ahead of schedule which is a miracle in and of itself. 😀 I usually finish it the day before ‘cause you know I have 2 weeks to read the book… Holly shit how is it Sunday before the book club already and I’m only halfway through! 😀

 

Review: Makana Series

Hello dear reader(s) and welcome to another instalment of Nessa reads books and writes reviews (NRBWR). I recently wrote a warm-up post for Dewey’s readathon about globetrotting around the world with crime novels. In the post I wrote about the importance of locations to crime novels, stating that a location is an important character in the book. It affects everyone and everything and you can learn a lot about a location by reading crime novels. Since I started the Makana series during the readathon, in today’s review I’m taking you, dear reader(s), to the Middle East. Or to be more precise to Egypt’s capital city – Cairo.

 

Recenzija: Baština

Pozdrav dragi štioci! Čelanova Baština se neplanirano našla u mojim rukama, te eto i neplanirane recenzije. 🙂 Prve srijede u svibnju išla sam u kino u Jokera, a da pokratimo vrijeme do filma ja i prijatelj smo zujali po Hoću knjigu. Točnije ja sam zujala, on je tražio jednu specifičnu knjigu. Gledajući što ima novo na policama knjižare naletila sam na zanimljiv naslov: Nikola Čelan: Baština – Kako sam preživio splitske devedesete i prvih 10 godina TBF-a. Slikala sam naslovnicu, poslala je bratu na mail misleći da bi ovo njega moglo zanimat jer inače voli čitat biografije glazbenika. Nakon filma vidim ja brat odgovorio na mail cili oduševljen; veli uzmi to i novu knjigu od Dražena Lalića ako naletim. Haj’d dobro, odem ja tako u ponediljak na sv. Duju u knjižaru i uzmem mu tu novu Lalićevu knjigu (Politika i nogomet je naslov iste ako koga zanima, a s obzirom da čovik piše o dvije meni najomraženije teme tu recenziju nećete gledat 😛 ) i Čelanovu Baštinu. A s obzirom da sam već nabavila knjigu i eto stoji tu i čeka da je moj brat preuzme… Što ne bi cijela obitelj pročitala istu. 😀

 

Review: Inspector Devlin series

Hello dear reader(s) and welcome to another instalment of Nessa reads books and writes reviews (NRBWR). Today I’m reviewing Brian McGilloway’s Inspector Devlin series for you. The series consist of 5 books in chronological order: Borderlands, Gallows Lane, Bleed a River Deep, The Rising and The Nameless Dead. To be quite honest with you dear reader(s), even after I’ve read all 5 novels I’m still not quite sure what to think about this series.