Book Review: Why Did Anyone Like Divergent? (Spoilers)

I realize that this view has been expressed by many people after Divergent’s release in 2011 and its later movie adaptation in 2014, but after reading the entire Divergent trilogy in 2022, my thoughts on this book series can no longer be contained. As someone who has read a lot of young adult fiction ranging…Continue Reading →

Book Review: The Silmarillion: J.R.R Tolkien’s Greatest Work (Spoilers)

Last year for Christmas, I asked for two things that I didn’t realize would lead me down a rabbit hole of lore and change the way I write and those things were The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Why? I asked for them because while I was raised on Tolkien’s works and the…Continue Reading →

Review: Pride and Prejudice is the Best Romance Novel I Have Ever Read

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen deserves every bit of praise that it has gotten. Published in 1813, Pride and Pejudice is the 2nd most read book in Britian, beating out even Harry Potter and just behind Lord of the Rings. Because of its success as a novel, it has gotten two movie adaptations and…Continue Reading →

Review: Why was Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Published? (Part 1/3) (Spoilers)

2020 was a crappy year for everyone, but one of the things that made it crappy for me personally was the fact that I read the Magnus Chase trilogy. For some context, from the ages of 12-14, I was a huge Rick Riordan fan. I had all the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, the…Continue Reading →

Review: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book 2: Rick Riordan Hates Women. (Spoilers) (Part 2/3)

Rick Riordan must’ve had a gun to his head while writing the second book in this abysmal series with how much forced “diversity” there is. If you thought The Sword of Summer was bad, be prepared for a butt load of intersectionality politics in book 2: The Hammer of Thor that make it unreadable. I’m…Continue Reading →

Review: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Should Not be a Kids Book. (Part 3/3) (Spoilers)

Finally, we are at the end of this trek through hell and unlike my review of Rings of Power, Rick Riordan hasn’t come out with anything else set in Norse mythology so I won’t have to do even more reviews of this awful series. I thank God for that small mercy. I don’t think my…Continue Reading →

Review: The Left Used The Screwtape Letters as Instructions on How to Screw up America.

The Screwtape Letters is a novel written by Christian apologist and author C.S. Lewis (the same dude who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia) that showcases the temptations that humans struggle with through the view of the demons doing the tempting. When I read this book toward the end of my freshman year of highschool, the…Continue Reading →

Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. This Book Makes Me Happy.

I know this might offend some diehard, purist Tolkien fans, but I was raised on the Lord of the Rings movies and for most of my life, my only Tolkien knowledge came from the movies. Yes, I can hear your mixed cheers, boos, and silence. However, if you’ve read my review on The Silmarillion, you’ll…Continue Reading →

Review: The Magician’s Nephew. The Silmarillion Origin Story of Narnia (Spoilers).

After hearing the unfortunate and deeply angering news that Greta Gerwig is going to destroy The Chronicles of Narnia series, I have decided to re-read the books so that when the gut-wrenching time comes where I have to review her monstrosity, I’ll at least know what I’m talking about when it comes to the lore….Continue Reading →

Review: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Eowyn Wants to Kick Butt, Sam Gets to Use Frodo’s Cool Flashlight, Treebeard is Slow, Sauron is Somewhat Funny, and I Now Have Arachnophobia (Spoilers).

After reading Fellowship of the Rings, I obviously didn’t stop to take a break, take some time to process the greatness of what I had read, maybe grab a snack. Nope. I immediately jumped to The Two Towers, because patience, what’s that? I had made it my mission at that point to absorb all Tolkien…Continue Reading →

Review: The Children of Hurin. Turin Turambar Needs a Hug and Some Time in Therapy (Spoilers).

The Children of Hurin, written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the late 1910’s and published in 2007 by his son, Christopher, is one of the three great tales of the First Age. While it is one of the great tales, it’s also the most tragic tale in the entire legendarium, and showcases best the heroic struggle…Continue Reading →

Review: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. All Hail King Elessar! (Spoilers)

This is the best book in the series and is where we finally get a wrap up to the epic saga that started with the Fellowship. The world of Middle Earth has finally been saved once and for all, and we get some awesome lore drops in the Appendices that sorta explain (but not in…Continue Reading →

Review: Percy Jackson and the Olympians was the Start of an Era. (Spoilers)

From the ages of 12-14, this series was basically my entire world. All I would ever talk about was “Percy Jackson this” and “Percy Jackson that”. I would not shut up about the Greek gods and their stories. However, now that I’m older and have seen how chaotic the Percy Jackson fandom is, I have…Continue Reading →

Review: Heroes of Olympus: The Series Where Things Started Going Wrong (Spoilers).

If you’ve read my review on Percy Jackson and the Olympians that I posted last week, you’ll realize that I have a lot to say about this series and its spinoffs. While the original series was really good and is easily one of my favorite YA reads of all time, The Heroes of Olympus was…Continue Reading →

Review: The Trials of Apollo Openly Marked the End of Sanity (Spoilers)

If you thought my review of The Heroes of Olympus was bad, this one is going to be much worse. The Trials of Apollo was the gayest series in the Riordanverse (next to Magnus Chase and The Sun and the Star) and while it stuck farily well to the plot (thankfully it had a plot),…Continue Reading →

Review: Jane Eyre is an Idiot (Spoilers)

I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (the sister of Emily Bronte, another romance novelist of the time) for the first time towards the end of my freshman year and I learned something about women that I had never thought of before. Us ladies buy romance novels because we seem to think we can fix…Continue Reading →

Review: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe vs. the Movie (Spoilers)

In my quest to catch up on The Chronicles of Narnia series because Greta Gerwig is coming like the White Witch to destroy it and turn it into her own icy, feminist wonderland, I re-read the book and watched the original movie that came out in 2008 to see how well they stood together. Thankfully,…Continue Reading →

Review: The Horse and His Boy. Horse Theft is Okay as Long as They Can Talk. (Spoilers)

I’ve actually read The Horse and His Boy three times; first when I originally read (or tried to read) The Chronicles of Narnia, second when I was in 4th or 5th grade, and finally when I was reading it to do this review and catch up on Narnia lore. While The Horse and His Boy…Continue Reading →

Review: Prince Caspian vs The Movie. Make Narnia Great Again.

As with my review of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, since Prince Caspian was adapted into a movie by Disney, I have to give both the book and movie a review. While I will admit that the Prince Caspian is my favorite adaptation because it seems more serious than the first movie, it…Continue Reading →

Review: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Sinks the Movie. (Spoilers)

I’m pretty sure that when Disney was adapting the Chronicles of Narnia movies, their main goal was to milk the adventures of the Pevensies for all they were worth. The reason why I say this is because while Disney could’ve gone in chronological order (which I think maybe would’ve been the better and possibly more…Continue Reading →

Review: Romeo and Juliet: How Not to Handle Dating.

I realize Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love stories ever written and has been adapted into play after highschool play and movie after cheesy Halmark movie, but just why? When I read it, I thought, “Aww, that’s cute. The joys of being young and dumb…and they killed themselves.” Now obviously, this is…Continue Reading →

Review: The Silver Chair and The Last Battle. Things Start Getting Whacky. (Spoilers)

The Silver Chair and The Last Battle are the last two books in the Chronicles of Narnia series and as implied in the title of this review, they are the whackiest books in the series, not because of the characters or the adventure, but rather because of the theology that was presented. While they are…Continue Reading →

Review: Beren and Luthien was the Best Romance I’ve Read Since Pride and Prejudice. (Spoilers)

Happy Day-Before-Halloween, tanukis! As you’ve seen in the title, this review is about Tolkien’s epic romance, Beren and Luthien, which may seem like a strange choice for those who haven’t read it for a (sorta) Halloween post, but don’t worry. You’ll see why I choose this book in a sec. So settle down, grab your…Continue Reading →

Review: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The Movie Will Not do it Justice (Spoilers).

Seeing as the movie adaptation of Suzanna Collin’s A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is coming out next week, I took it upon myself to re-read the book so that I could give a review of it before the movie comes out. Will I be watching the movie? No, for reasons I listed in a…Continue Reading →

Review: Pilgrim’s Progress Was Okay (Spoilers)

I don’t know if you guys ever read Pilgrim’s Progress as part of your schooling, but as someone who is homeschooled, it was part of my curriculum. At the time, I didn’t really know much about it other than it was considered a classic and was supposed to be an allegory for Christianity. Thus, I…Continue Reading →

Review: King Lear Has Issues (Spoilers)

As some of you may know from my post about YouTuber Unclaimed Demigod’s video defending the LGBTQ+ agenda in Rick Riordan’s books, I am a sophomore student and in the grand tradition of high school, that naturally means reading a lot of Shakespear’s writing. So far, I haven’t covered much of his writing, so that’s…Continue Reading →

Review: The Hunger Games Was One of the Only Good Dystopian Novels (Spoilers)

Even though I’ve talked about quite a few books on this blog, one of the series I haven’t talked much about is the dystopian series that really kicked the genre into full gear in the 2010s and that was The Hunger Games. Though I’ve talked about the prequel book that came out in 2020 and…Continue Reading →

Review: Happy Halloween! Coraline is One of the Creepiest Kids’ Books Ever (Spoilers)

I first read Coraline by Neil Gaiman in the spring of 2020 because I had seen the movie a million times and thought to myself “Hold up. It’s a book?! Well, guess what I’m doing today.” From then on, I have watched pretty much every theory about Coraline on YouTube that there is and the…Continue Reading →

Review: Don Quixote is as Senile as Biden (or Maybe It’s the Other Way Around) (Spoilers)

Okay, maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement, but just take a moment to think about it. Both Don Quixote and Biden are two old, senile dudes who don’t know where they are, the only difference being that one is at least strong enough to wear armor and fight people and can form a sentence…Continue Reading →

Review: The Isle of the Lost Book Series is Disney Fanfic (Spoilers) 

If you guys have been keeping up with my posts, you’ll know that a few weeks ago I did a report on Disney Channel’s newest addition to the wildly popular Descendants universe, Descendants 4: The Rise of Red, (a.k.a. the sequel no one asked for since the third movie was supposed to be the last…Continue Reading →

Review: The Pendragon Cycle Was Interesting (Spoilers)

For the past six months, I’ve been reading The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead in a mad frenzy punctuated by weeklong breaks to try to finish the series before the Dailywire+ adaptation comes out sometime this year. Now that I’ve finished it and can finally give my take on the series as a whole…Continue Reading →

Review: Millie Maven and the Bronze Medallion was New Age Trash.

Last Christmas, I asked for a series of books that a friend of mine suggested called “The Millie Series”. According to Amazon, that series is about a Christian farm girl growing up during the time of the Civil War, having to learn lessons about trusting God while growing up or something. I ended up not…Continue Reading →

Review: Things Get Even Dumber in Millie Maven and the Golden Vial (Spoilers).

As the title suggests, if you thought Millie Maven and the Bronze Medallion was a terrible story filled with New Age stupidity, just wait until you read Millie Maven and the Golden Vial, the book that involves children eating worm sludge (a-la Disney’s bastardization of Willow), the power of friendship, and finally gives the dumbest…Continue Reading →

Review: Millie Maven and the White Sword Made Me Root for the Bad Guy.

When I finally finished Millie Maven and the Golden Vial, I had to take a weeklong hiatus from reading any more of those books. My brain felt like mush and the entire series just made me angry. It was supposed to have a good story but instead, it felt like Ted and Rachel Dekker paid…Continue Reading →

Review: I Only Made it Six Books into the Alex Rider Series (Spoilers).

A few years ago, I was given the Alex Rider series after I had asked for it as a Christmas gift. Why did I ask for it? Because it was recommended by Rick Riordan on his website, and I was still going through my Percy Jackson phase and thought that Riordan could do no wrong….Continue Reading →

Review: Sense and Sensibility is Better Than the Movie (Spoilers)

I don’t know about you, but Sense and Sensibility is extremely underrated. It is one of Jane Austen’s greatest works that is second only to Pride and Prejudice (which remains my favorite Jane Austen novel). While Pride and Prejudice focused more on the psychological aspects of love and attraction, Sense and Sensibility shows two extremes…Continue Reading →

Review: Emma…How Not to be a Friend (Spoilers)

Back in October, I did a review of the 90’s movie Clueless staring Alicia Silverstone and as it turns out, that movie was based on Jane Austen’s comedy Emma. At the time, I had never read Emma and had only seen the movie version with Gwyneth Paltrow, a movie which, while accurate to the book,…Continue Reading →

Review: Miracles by Eric Metaxas…Why?

As most of you know by now, I’m homeschooled and the curriculum that I use, while being good at teaching me things like history, math, science, English, etc. leans towards Christianity and includes reading for understanding the faith and stuff like that. Unfortunately, however, the lady who now runs the curriculum is very much into…Continue Reading →

Review: Tom Sawyer is an Excellent Prequel (Spoilers)

Happy Black History Month! Why we need a month dedicated to people based on the color of their skin, I have no idea, but here we are. For this month, I’ve decided to play a little game with my book reviews that I call “Ban or Unban” where I look at some books that have…Continue Reading →

Review: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Should be Put Back in Schools (Spoilers).

Continuing with my game of “Ban or Unban,” we’re going to be taking a look today at Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the much more famous sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Interestingly, part of why this book is so popular is because it hasn’t just been banned today, but it was…Continue Reading →

Review: Teachers and Politicians Should Take Notes from Up from Slavery (Spoilers)

Last week for my American Literature course, I read and finished Booker T. Washington’s autobiography Up from Slavery, which is the story of how he grew up, was able to go to school, and eventually founded the famous Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). In my eyes, this book is completely unproblematic. It’s his raw story…Continue Reading →

Review: To Kill a Mockingbird (Spoilers)

It’s the last week of Black History Month before we transition into Women’s History Month, so it’s time to talk about a book that combines those two factors: supposed racism and a good female protagonist (as well as being written by a woman). If you’re tired of hearing me talk about banned books, don’t worry….Continue Reading →

Review: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey – An Example of Genius (Spoilers)

Of all of Jane Austen’s books, I think Northanger Abbey gets the least recognition. If it hadn’t been for the fact that my copies of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are both annotated, I probably never would’ve heard about it, much less read it. However, here we are. I read Northanger Abbey and…Continue Reading →

Review: Frankenstein (Spoilers)

Mary Shelley was an interesting person. Her father was an atheist and encouraged her to adhere to his anarchist political beliefs. She had a rich education and when she was a teenager, she was the mistress, then wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. That meant that she had many social connections with prominent writers…Continue Reading →

Review: Wuthering Heights was Actually Good? What? (Spoilers)

If any of you guys have been with me since I first started my blog (thank you if you have been), you’ll know that one of the first book reviews I ever wrote on here was a review of Charlotte Bronte’s book, Jane Eyre, a book that I thoroughly disliked for what I saw to…Continue Reading →

Review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass vs. Peter Pan

Two books that I was assigned for my class on British literature was Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass and Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Both are classic children’s stories that I was familiar with growing up, but it wasn’t until I read them this year that I realized that both…Continue Reading →

Review: I Have Some Thoughts About C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce.

Aaaanndd…once again it’s time to do a review about a book I was required to read for school this year. Having only five weeks of school left before summer break, the books required for my British Literature class seem to be ending with a bang. Most recently, I finished C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, which,…Continue Reading →

Blog/Review: Top Ten Books from Junior Year

I had heard it said by several of my friends that junior year was going to be the worst year of high school…and they were kind-of right. It wasn’t that it was the absolute worst year of my life or anything. What made it the hardest academic year for me was just the massive workload…Continue Reading →

Blog/Review/Mythology: Reading Greek Mythology Hits Different Now…

As I think most of you know that I was in the Percy Jackson fandom for a long time, primarily from middle school to the beginning of high school. Most of this was because it was Greek mythology – which I already liked – turned into a fun story with snarky teenagers narrating and I…Continue Reading →

Review: I Only Made it Seven Chapters into This Book… (Spoilers)

There are terrible books, and then there are truly terrible books. Terrible books are the ones where you read them and though the characters may suck, the plot be nonsensical and contrived, the dialogue forced, and the reasons why it’s a New York Times Best Seller beyond your comprehension, you still somehow persevere to the…Continue Reading →

Review: Hamlet (Spoilers).

Hamlet: a play that – if you had a good education – you were forced to read in high school or had to act in if you were in theater. Nowadays, some schools are banning this book for a variety of reasons, including the heavy themes explored throughout it. Of course, this is stupid, because…Continue Reading →

Review: Paradise Lost (Spoilers).

Paradise Lost by John Milton is one of the greatest works in the English Language due to its interactive structure, theological exploration, magnificent storytelling, and lasting influence on literature and media. In fact, this book even had great influence on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (my review of which I’ll repost tomorrow). It’s a retelling of the…Continue Reading →

Review: Beowulf (Spoilers)

Finally, over a year after I read this epic, I’m talking about it on the blog. Let’s give three cheers for procrastination! But, on a more serious note, Beowulf is the most important work of literature in the English language. Written by an unknown author around 700-750 A.D., Beowulf is relevant for its cultural framework,…Continue Reading →

Review: We’re Living in George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Spoilers)

George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World are possibly the two most disturbing dystopian novels someone could read. 1984 is the most obvious in this with its totalitarian regime that forces compliance and takes away privacy. However, Brave New World is less obvious, giving us a world that, to the hedonistic mind, seems…Continue Reading →

Review: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Spoilers)

Most of you have probably heard of this series. Nickelodeon made an adaptation of the first three books into a movie back in 2004, starring Jim Carrey as Count Olaf and in 2017, Netflix released their 3-season adaptation of the books (which I watched when it came out, and it was a pretty faithful adaptation…Continue Reading →

Review: My Top List of Non-Smutty Romance Books for 2026.

As most of you know, I am not a fan of the way romance is treated in literature today. I like a story about a cute couple as much as anyone, but when things like rape and unhealthy obsession are portrayed as totally normal and romantic, and the book is full of so many graphic…Continue Reading →

Review: Agnes Grey – The 19th Century had Gen Alpha Kids, too (Spoilers)

After last year’s assigned reading of Wuthering Heights, I decided that the Bronte sisters were actually good writers. After reading Jane Eyre in my freshman year and hearing spoilers about Wuthering Heights, I had thought they were essentially the 19th century version of Stephanie Meyers times three. However, Wuthering Heights, for all the nightmarish dysfunction…Continue Reading →

Review: I’ve Concluded that Herman Hess was Probably a Weird Dude – Siddhartha (Spoilers)

Welp, I need a break from writing reviews about The Pendragon Cycle. It’s been five episodes and things are hardly getting better, so to keep writing reviews of each episode will pretty much be me repeating the well-established fact that it suffers from terrible pacing and incompetent writing. I will return to it either when…Continue Reading →