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 Seige and Storm (Shadow and Bone #2) By Leigh Bardugo  Published year :  Page count: 381 pages  Medium used: Paperback  Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, 2024-read.  Rating : 3/5  A bit underwhelming. Alina's run from the darkling continues. The Darkling's presence and power are subdued by a lot. He should have been named the weakling instead. Alina is stolen and kidnapped, beating the darkling, twice, with him putting only a weak resistance. Alina gets one more trinket made from a sea whip(sea serpent) which she wears like a fetter around her wrist. The combined power of the stag's antlers around her neck and the whip's fetter give an unprecedented amplification to her sun summoning ability. There is one more of these amplification sources - a firebird - which must be hunted down like the two before. I am guessing this is what will occupy the next book in the series.  I felt that the fight scenes and the chase scenes are a bit dry. They could have been...

 Children of Dune  By Frank Herbert ( Dune #3) Published Year: 1976 Page count: 448 pages  Medium Used: Kindle Paperwhite  Genre : Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Dune World, Melange Spice, 2024-read.  Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic. Stands up to the classic status of Dune Series. The book in which the fall of the Messiah Paul Atriedes' Muad Dib empire happens. And another by Leto II takes the universe into a supposed golden era for all!  Paul has walked off into the desert, after going blind, to escape from his visions of the fall of his empire. In his stand, his sister Alia assumes a God-like status and addicted to melange spice, she becomes an abomination. She is born with all the memories of all her ancestors and in her weakness and state of despair, let's them take control of her consciousness. Paul and Chani's children, Leto II and Ghanima are left in her protection and they also possess all the memories of their ancestors. They master the art of control ...

 Crying in H Mart  By Michelle Zauner  Published Year : 2021  Page Count : 237 pages Medium Used: Paperback  Genre: Memoir, Non fiction, Cancer, Nostalgia, Parent love.  Rating : 3.5/5 ⭐⭐⭐ In her 25th year, Michelle loses her mother to Cancer. Her mother is a Korean and her father, American. She has lived most of her adult life in the States. As a child, she has always clung to her mother and was inseparable from her. Growing up, she could always feel the love emanating from her mother in the korean food she cooked and the immense care she took to feed her. Still their relationship is not without its rough patches as they differ over her career path, college education, her mother's over criticality and her own rebellious nature asserting itself. She walks away from her mother to pursue a career in a musical band. Little later, she learns of her mother's cancer diagnosis and comes back to her. She stays with her mother till her death nursing her and taking c...

 Eragon (Inheritance Cycle #1) By Christopher Paulini  Published Year: 2002  Page count : 495 pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre : Fanstasy, Dragons, Fiction, Magical, 2024-read.  Rating : 3/5  I like this ok ok. I will definitely check out the second book in the series because I felt the world building and the different characters are good. I took longer to read this book than usual. I felt , at times, to toss away the book and happily DNF. But I somehow trudged my way through the parts that felt dragging, drawling. I felt some fight sequences are unnecessary and it is unreal how whereever Eragon went, he was mystically followed by enemy troops. I also thought that the author struggled a bit with descriptions and portraying the fight scenes.  Eragon is a sixteen year old boy but he is treated like a very young kid. His dragon has this mental connection with him where they have no boundaries and everything is known to each other - i thought this...