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9.1★ “Human Universe” doesn’t have much to do with humans. It, however, does have a lot about the universe. From Drake’s Equation to why we are alone, this book is the wonder of the galaxy. Think about it. Why are we alone? No, I don’t mean you are lonely. I mean mankind, humanity. Why have we never, ever received anything from aliens? This book explains most of that (well, at least most of what humans know so far), and more. If you want to dive into a world of science, astrology, aliens and more, then this book is for you! It’s a breeze to read as well. It summarises centuries worth of knowledge into one, 200 paged book, with some humour and good writing skills, and boom, there you have it! Say hello to Human Universe! 12/05/2025
9.7★ (average) “The Last bear” is a wonderful book, along with its sequel, “Finding bear”. With shocking twists, treacherous ends, and a trustworthy friend, this series is worthy of a John Newsbery medal! Being a reliant accomplice, protecting, warding, helping, befriending April Woods, is Bear, the one and only Polar Bear on Bear island. In The Last Bear, they gather together for an embrace in the Artic, while in Finding Bear, the lone polar bear is shot and injured, barely able to walk. April and Bear overcome challenges no matter how crazy the journey ahead of them is. They will bond together as they venture out for one last embrace, a connection between Polar bears, and mankind. 01/05/2025
9.9★ (average) The “Percy Jackson and The Olympians” series is one of THE BEST Greek Myths book series I HAVE EVER READ! You might wonder, “What about Loki?” Well, I say: “Loki is a NORSE myth, about NORSE mythological characters. Meanwhile, Percy Jackson is a GREEK MYTH, with GREEK mythological characters, silly reader.” Either way, the book still is absolutely amazing, due to the twisted storyline: from backstabbing betrayals, to lovers from strangers, all in this five book series. If you STILL aren’t convinced, listen to this transcript from Percy Jackson HIMSELF, and his best friend for life / girlfriend Annabeth! Percy-“This book is about me, Percy Jackson, Son of Poseidon, going on amazing adventures! And something else. Like, I remember finding a lightning bolt thingy and slaying this guy who sorta wanted to destroy the gods or something. I think his name was Cronose but I won’t tell you his real name cause that’s SPOILERS!! Anyways, to Annabeth.” Annabeth- “Yeah, I agree with whatever Percy says, cause he’s, like, my boyfriend. Whatevs. BTW, this book is great, cause it’s about Percy. ” Those two legendary heroes might sound like annoying teenagers, but they are actually amazing! If you don’t believe me, read this book!! 28/04/2025
9.4★ (average) The “Ender Quintet” series is a long, 2500 page+ novel about a young child named Andrew Wiggin, (nickname: Ender) advancing from a military school for kids known as Battle School. There he makes friends, kills two other students, and experienced the death of his colleagues, all just to slay a notorious human race known as the Buggers, or the Formics. After accidentally incinerating the Buggers’ entire species with a molecular disruptor, he lives with the guilt of destroying an entire sentient alien race. Accidentally! So he decides to take on gut-wrenching adventures, traveling at light speed, so that while he’s still 19, his older brother died on Earth from a stroke and heart failure CENTURIES ago! This killing of the buggers, known as The First Xenocide, is so important that time was known represented as, no, not BCE. No, not CE. That’s right, it becomes BX and AX, standing for ‘Before Xenocide’ and ‘After Xenocide’! This means that due to the fact that Peter Wiggin (Ender’s older brother) died at the age of 77, and was born 15 BX, then he died at the era of 62 AX!! Wow, imagine if we all had to switch to BX and AX. He learns lessons, he learns how to manipulate others, and best of all, he learns how to write a good book. Yet that’s not all! The interloping novels are written in stomach-splitting detail, with a background of dark humour. From murders to pornography to war packs, this book involves a way of dragging you in, while all the same repelling you. The first book is okay for 12 year olds, but then all of a sudden the next 4 books have lots of inappropriate language and sex references. My father REALLY should have filtered out the inappropriate bits of the series before giving it to me. Ages 17+. 27/04/2025 28/04/2025
9.9★ Okey-dokey. Where should I start? Oh, yeah. "Loki: A bad god’s guide to making enemies” is the fourth book in the Loki series and is, and (probably) always will be, ONE OF THE GREATEST, FUNNIEST, and most HILARIOUS books to ever be written! The second I laid my pair of eyeballs on this trickster’s diary, the book was stuck to me, taped on my eyes (probably by Loki..), making them unable to leave the book. So basically, READ DA BOOK NOW or else I will force you to read this book by taping it onto YOUR eyeballs. 29/03/2025
4.3★ Yeah, I am just going to get straight to the point. This book is SO INCREDIBLY BORING. It’s about Hilbert’s hotel, and how the hotel is able to be completely full yet still able to fit in more. Why do I say it is incredibly boring?? The first few chapters are basically the same thing repeated, except with a few tiny tweaks. Then the final chapter is about infinite rows of infinity, which was the slightest tiniest bit interesting. Also, this book is COSTLY! Yet there are literally below 60 pages, with over 50% of the book literally just pictures. And so I conclude, DON’T BUY, DON’T RECOMMEND, AND DON’T READ. For ages nobody+. Because I hope nobody reads this book. 23/03/2025
9.7★ A mysterious death. A giant ransom. 3 keys, 3 gates. And a teenager with a video game. 18 year old Wade Watts searches for the video game easter egg of OASIS in the year 2045. This story sure has some shocking turns, betrayal, and even death outside of the video game world. The book makes my think of think that a video game fantasy like this could actually be possible! When I read, I fell like a tsunami of emotions and thoughts hits the shores of my brain, and I am left wiser…and also have a stronger urge to finish the book. Anyways, back to the book. We know that Wade is looking for a game easter egg, but why search for it for 5 years?? Because this easter egg is one of a kind, and lets the finder become the heir to the famous video game creator James Halliday, and inherit 243,780,260,000 $. Yeah, that’s right 244 BILLION dollars is at stake. But he isn’t the only egg hunter. Evil organisations threaten to blow up his family and friends (and actually do), and other egg hunters destroy each other in game. Who will claim the fortune?? (Not gonna tell you. ) 20/02/2025
9.4★ Okay. This book review is gong to be shorter than usual because I don’t have much to say about it. Let’s see… Oh yeah. WARNING! ⊘ Not for people below 18 years old. This book contains explicit content, swears, inappropriate content, etc. Honestly, I am VERY surprised I was even let to read this book. So if you are a secret book dweller who ISN’T 18 plus, then I say don’t read this book! I got the creeps for a few days, had a few nightmares about zombies invading my home, so yeah. Really, I have mix feelings for this book, cause I mean I get it. It’s not for kids. But if you ignore that, the book has a deeper meaning. If you read it carefully, the book isn’t just horror. It has a second meaning. You won’t get what I mean, unless you read the final paragraph of the entire book. (Don’t just skip to the last paragraph.) Either way, this book is quite the book! Swear words and stuff, but then there’s also excitement, shock, and an amazingly weaved story line. Overall, It’s a pretty good book. Just not for kids. 13/02/2025
9.9★ Do you remember that 2 years ago (Wow, time flies!) on 2023 Christmas Day I wrote a book review about “Reapers of the Moss Kitties (correction- Keepers of the lost cities)”, and gave it a 9.9★ rating? Well, MY DAD MISSED like SEVEN months of updates, and my father FINALLY caught up with the Keeper archive and, BOOM, I’ve finished an exclusive 9.5 Keeper thriller! Why is it exclusive? Because the 38 chapters where da Keefster was missing, (If you don’t know who KEEEEFE is, DON’T read this book. There are qquuiiittteeee a few spoilers.) aren’t missing anymore! And better still, it’s all from Keefy’s POV! So get ready to three…two.…one…. Rock and Roll! (Read!) Also Alvar has a really strange obsession of pancakes for no reason. Why? 06/02/2025
9.2★ Warning! PG-15. Yeah, you have to be over the age of 15 to read this book because it mentions, well, inappropriate stuff. It also contains violence, killings, etc. But if you ignore the fact that I say this book is PG-15, it’s actually a pretty good book! You might think these two things contradict, but if you think about it, they don’t. Is the story line nice? Check! Is there a dramatic twist? Several! Check! Is there nonfiction? Check! Is there fiction? A bit! Check! See? Not so bad now is it? The book goes all the way into the gory part of Khosrou’s child hood, to his friends tongue getting zapped off, to deaths on bus 209, to divorces, relationships, asylums, to every traumatic event that has ever happened in his child hood. If it’s too much for you, I understand. But if you read to the very end, the plot will unfold and everything will link together…. : ) 04/02/2025
9.3★ As the wolves howls and the birds flutter, October runs free through the wild, with nothing but her own strength and her father. Every day she forages and plays in the wilderness, miles away from civilisation. Until one day on her 11th birthday, everything changes. White snow. A jump. A climb. A fall. A scream. Red snow. And then silence. A marriage. A divorce. An owl. A reunion. A tragedy. No owl. Treasure hunters. Friends. A gold ring. A mystery. You can probably tell this a good book. But…. WHY IS THIS AUTHOR SO OBSESSED WITH ‘and’ ?! Let me give you an example of a random sentence from this book: Extract from Chapter 11 Final Paragraph- “The sound has stopped and I can’t hear anything but birdsong and the whip of branches and the sighing of the leaves in the wind but I am trembling like the silver birch and my feet are growing roots in the ground.” You see that? A single random sentence has 4 ‘and’s! Also that single sentence was like, the length of a paragraph. Dude. 04/02/2025
9.9★ Murders. Kidnaps. Missing people. Gunfights. What else is there to the life of a spy? Relationships, crushes, girlfriends, what else is there to the life of a teenager? Well, turns out there’s a lot more! Ben Ripley, once a normal twelve year old, finds himself in a school for spies. There he trains, but not everything goes to plan. There are moles in the CIA, attempted assassinations, illegal drug dealers and more to come. Can Ben manage to survive while keeping his relationships afloat? Let’s see. There’s shocking twists and turns, spiralling cliff hangers, and extremely tense moments. Really, the question should be, can YOU survive reading this book without recommending it to a few people? Well, I can’t. 01/02/2025
9.1★ "Minecraft: The Tournament” is one of the rare Minecraft^® books which talks about Minecraft^® from a third person POV. Unlike most other Minecraft^® books which describes from a player inside the game, this book talks about a gamer who get invited to a Minecraft^® tournament to battle other players into making a beacon the fastest! The gamer thinks this by itself is quite simple! But the tournament isn’t that easy…there just might be a small chance of… ABSOLUTE DOOM! Recommended for ages 9+. 22/01/2025
9.6★ “The village” is the third book of the Minecraft Trilogy written by Max Brooks, and tells the story of how two individual players meet each other despite each of them thinking they were the only players existing on the planet. Wait-that already happened in the first and second books! Then what happened in the third book, the book I am currently writing about. Well, it’s a real plot-twister. They find an entire (clue in the title) village! Except the people there act a little different than them. Wait, what’s that shiny green thing? It’s called money. And what do you use money for? To trade! As time moves on, it seems to be that the world the players live in is getting more and more civilised! Nice! But what can the players do when a clan of civilised MONSTERS come and invade the village? Read the book for the full story! It’s very thrilling! For all ages above 6. 19/01/2025
8.2★ The shy kid sat down in the sewers. “What should I do?” He answered his own question. “Nothing. I can do nothing. I could have done something back before I was shoved here. But no. I’m stuck in the sewers, and I’m going to die here. Well, that’s great.” Of course, he didn’t say any of his thoughts out loud. He was a shy boy after all. He could have accomplished so much if he wasn’t so shy. He could have friends, he could be more popular, he might even talk to his crush! But no. He still was a shy, shy boy. Yet, even that cannot stop destiny from happening. There is no such thing as consistency. There is only change. 10/01/2025
9.5★ As the red dust settles, and the body of Mark watney lies on the cratered surface of the red planet, Watney’s eyes open as he finds himself in the barren red desert of Mars. His survival instincts kick in as he looks downwards at the satellite antenna sticking through his chest like a knife. This book, the Martian, is the story of a young man stranded on Mars, being abandoned by his friends, and left for the dead. He must learn how to survive on mars, how to grow food without soil, and he must go through really dumb mistakes hundreds of times, which cause accidents that nearly kill him. This book, though however intriguing it might be, is not recommended for children. It continues various inappropriate content, and a large amount of swears and curses. Recommended for above the age of 16. (Happy new year!) 31/12/2024
9.8★ As the tides sweep, and the moonlight shines down, the old man would sit on the cliffside, his rod in the ocean water, waiting for the fish to take the bait. “Alas!” He thought. “Why haven’t you read this classic book before? It’s pretty good after all!” “ It’s about the stories of me, an old fisherman, catching the largest fish I’ve ever seen, only to have in the ocean, just beyond sight, shamelessly mocking me as I see it in the ocean, too heavy to haul but too stubborn to go away… “ Honestly, this is a good book! The old man said it himself! (Read above!) 20/12/2024
9.9★ This is a collection of the darker stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous investigator, from crypts at midnight, to what seems to be a blood-sucking vampire in the middle of Sussex! These tales venture into the more sinister side of human beings and include novels about violence, betrayal, and affairs of the young and the old. Explore through how the popular fictional detective solves the unsolvable, finds the unfindable, and fixes the unfixable! Recommended for for 11 or older. 13/12/2024
9.7★ A mysterious return. An unexpected appearance. A new wave of crime. Sherlock had already solved the past and the present, before leaving. Is it really possible that he has come back, to truly change the future? Sherlock Holmes is back on the case, solving the more of this new perpetration in Britain? If that wasn’t enough, the book has a whole extra one in-His last bow. Like, that’s literally the name of the book. From the murders of men and women, to a box of fresh cut limbs, and even more affairs. Oooooohhhhh!!!!!!!! Either one of the books are amazing, so I recommend a read now! 29/11/2024
9.8★ Venture through the world of Dexter, the 10-yr old child prodigy!He learnt to speak at the age of 12 min old! By the age of 5 months Procter Jr. can already solve crosswords faster than adult! What can’t he do! Well, actually-can he solve the mystery of the *cough* “teachers who have serious flatulence ”- ok, fine. Why are all the teachers farting and pooping their pants so hard it looks like they’re pouring chocolate cake down their pants? If that sounds weird and disgusting - stop reading this. If it sounds AMAZINGLY weird and disgusting - read on! No, I don’t mean the book review. I mean the book! Stop reading. I said stop! Oh well. If you’re not going to read the book and keep reading this review, then your loss. Shoo! Actually, don’t shoo. Mr. Adam Kay here has actually another 5 BUMTASTIC books! Please read these too. Now shoo! Get out of here! SHOO!! 19/11/2024
9.8★ “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” is a good book. That’s a simple man’s view. I’m not a simple man. I’m A nIne yeAr Old who is VERY EXCITED to introduce one of the few 9.8-9.9 books I have read! If you have read my previous book review, you will know that “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was a really good book at a rating of 9.7, this book in the series was even better! The stories were upgraded by a notch, and at the end of the novel, oh, that cliffhanger makes me want to spend a £1000 on the next book! If you don’t know what the cliffhanger is, read the book now! For 9+ though, the book is a bit bloody. 01/11/2024
9.7★ “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ”, is as many say, and I say as well, *takes deep breath* IS THE BEST CLASSICAL FICTION MYSTERY BOOK IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! Or, to put it in another, more sophisticated way, this set of short mysteries is a famous mystique detective novel, or informally put in a part of this book,”Whodunnit?” It is famous as of the intense writing, the suspense the unfolding of the plot to reveal a more sinister meaning. From an evanesce woman, to a man with 9 finger and a bloody, hacked thumb, to finding the mysteries, the unsolvable, and solving them too, Sherlock can do it all ! Sherlock is a detective who sees every detail, every detail he’s every seen, and examines every one of them. He’s a modest man, yet a cunning one too, with a feeble look but a dense interior. I find it amazing, how sly he can be. You walk into his room, and he can tell your age, what type of car you have, where you come from, and what your job is, and yet even more. The book itself-surprising! Yet the plot, the characters, the plan, the twist,*mwah*- it’s perfect. It’s even more shocking what you can do, what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did, was through docile thinking, and writing. Arthur really made this book wondrous, enough to give it a 9.7★ ! 20/10/2024
8.8★ “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” is a book about a young African child who lives in a world of myths and monsters. All from reading a single book, he creates a magical thing called electricity. First he treats it as a toy. Soon, he’s famous, he’s elemental. He’s the boy who harnessed the wind. A story of triumph, a story of change, from a young boy to a man, from a poor African child to TED talker, this book is all true, and shows the story of the boy who harnessed the wind. 15/10/2024
8.2★ “One World Schoolhouse”, written by Salmon Amin Khan (founder and CEO of Khan academy), is a great book. For adults. Even for me, it is, how do I say this; very intense. It is mainly about the history of Khan academy, from how this famous, ten-million-lives-helped website all started from how Sal khan wanted to help his nephew get better at math, leading to the current Khan academy, yet doing all this by himself, this one man, Sal khan, had changed millions of lives. This book is like a history book for a website. I must admit, it is a good book, but it is going to be quite dull for people younger than a 13 yr old (make that 15 yr old). I really hope you don’t find this book boring, OK? 03/10/2024
9.3★ “Hatchet” is the adventure story of a young child named Brian Robeson. Thoughts of how parents’ divorce cloud his mind, when suddenly, his plane pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. How can he land the plane? And more importantly, with only the clothes had been wearing, and armed with a hatchet, how he survive to see another day? “Hatchet” is a heart-stopping story, with twists, turns, success and fails, you are interlocked with Brian throughout the story of how he survived against the wilderness. It is crucial to understand what Brian is doing, in the 2 months he is stranded, in his minded clouded from The Secret to an entire different realm of thoughts. 02/10/2024
7.7★ “When You Trap a Tiger” is a book based on Korean folklore. It is about a girl, a young girl, who believes she is haunted by an imaginary tiger. Yet the hauntings get worse. One day, she can no longer keep her secret. She bursts into her halmoni’s room, explaining the haunts. Yet then, and only then, halmoni explains the true reason why she is being haunted. Or should I say, why she is cursed. It is an interesting book on making friends, losing friends, and listening to the stories. The cursed stories, the ones of darkness, to heal the ones on the brim of the void. never trust a tiger. 05/10/2024
9.4★ “Charlotte’s web” is about a little spider named Charlotte and a young pig named Wilbur. Charlotte tries to save Wilbur from his oncoming end: bacon. A young child named fern loves Wilbur, and is the only child who can hear the animals in the barn, including Wilbur. This book influences the reader. The book is about adventure and miracle, pleasure and pain, life and death, and time. The book itself is miraculous, not to mention the illustrations. And, for a book, it is just about perfect. 02/10/2024
8.5★ “Stuff Matters” is a book about matter. From how razor blades work, to crafting a samurai blade, to even how sky scrapers are built today! It is slightly dull, not that “ yawn-teacher-i-need-to-go-pee” type of dull, I just mean it isn’t as interesting as liquid rules, another book made by the same author. As for me, I’ve actually read the book a long time ago, just before I first read liquid rules. I didn’t understand anything. I just thought, “Bro, ‘dis isn’t fiction! BOOORING.” Now I find it quite a lot more interesting, as I hope the same will happen to you!! 26/09/2024
9.2★ “Liquid Rules” is a book about liquids! From liquid helium’s superfluid viscosity to how it can be used in MRI machines, to how all life on earth was based of a single liquid. It sucks out all the juicy details from a boring, ol’ textbook, like some sort of amazing textbook-pire, then converting it into an interesting book for youngsters . As for me, I’ve actually read the book a long time ago, but I never treated it as a fun book. I just felt like my dad was forcing me to read the book. Only now, 2 years later, I realise how my dad was helping me, giving my early mind an early boost! 19/09/2024
9.2★ PONY is a beautiful book, a story of Silas Bird, a young 12-yr old who is on a mission to find and rescue his father from a notorious counterfeiting ring. Half way through, he meets an old Marshal who just so happens to be chasing the same counterfeiting ring as Silas. Silas is no normal human. He is supernatural being — he has the ability to see the souls of dead people……………… I like the way this book is written; full of suspense, details, and cliffhangers, always making the reader want to read on. It includes the character’s emotions, making the book ever more intense, swallowing you in the book. Many times I felt like it was the end of the story, before the storyline flips and I am once again submerged into PONY. I have read many fascinating books before, but this one, this PONY, is honestly one of a kind. I highly recommend it for all young minds who like books. Yet there is a lot of bloodshed, so there would probably be an age limit of 9+. 03/09/2024
9★ The wonderful adventures of nils holgerson is a very ingenious story about a young kid named nils turned into an elf by an elf king. After being turned into an elf, he rode on his goosey gander into a flock of wild geese living with them for His whole time as an elf. The story has many twists and turns. For example, when Smire fox nearly captures all of the wild geese, about to pounce , brave nils alerts the goose , and later smire gets expelled from the country . And the greatest twist of all was at the end , where Akka reveals what she thinks is the only way for nils to be turned back into a human: ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ The story is very dramatic and also has quite a few life lessons in it, hidden underneath a storyline. In the middle few chapters of the book, the story line is steady, but at the front and back of the book, the storyline is like a ro!!ercoaster .There truly is a lot of spirit in those pages. I feel like I can relate to a few scenes in the book. Like when Nils meets the goosey gander he feels unsure, yet the longer he stays with it, the closer he is, until one day they are separated, only to be reunited. It’s similar to me and my mum’s relationship: we are close, yet when we have a fight we separate, yet when we reunite we are closer then before. Recommended for 9+. 28/08/2024
9.1★ “Minecraft: The Voyage” is an adventure story about a young man named Stax. He has a normal life until one day, everything changes. Can he survive out in the wild, outside the safety of his long gone house? Though the story line may suggest this book as an adventure story, but this book actually has a very basic moral: Living an easy life is hard, if you don’t try hard, life will make you have to try harder. 01/09/2024
