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Book Review: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J.Maas

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Book Review: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J.Maas (Second Part of the Throne Of Glass Series) About the Author: Sarah J.Maas is a famous New York based writer who is famous for writing the Throne of Glass series. The first book of the series was published in 2012 and the seventh and the last book of the series is due to release in 2018. You can check out her website here . About the Book: Crown of Midnight is the second part of the Throne of Glass series which is a fantasy book series. It was published in 2014 and discusses the story in furtherance of what happens when Celena Sardothien, an assassin, becomes the King’s Champion at the end of the first Throne of Glass book. The king of Adarlan starts giving her secret tasks of killing people throughout the kingdom and Celena starts faking those deaths. It is when she is given the task to kill Archer Finn, a suspected rebel, when she realises that a group is rising in Adarlan against the king to remove him from the thron

Best Books I've Read So Far In 2018

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2018 is almost over and I’ve read around twenty books till now I feel so happy about the fact that I’ve read so many wonderful books. So I decided to share with you guys, some of the best books which I’ve read so far this year and which I am sure that I will definitely be re-reading in the future. I’ve reviewed almost all of these books on my blog or on my instagram feed ( ravisha_pushkar ), so you can check out their reviews as well. 1) The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky:  So ‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ is undoubtedly one of the best books I’ve read till date. I saw the movie a while back and I loved it so much that I had to read the book. I definitely found the book to be much better than the movie. The book is so beautifully written in the form of letters and addresses so many important issues in relation to sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. The main character ’Charlie’ has been shown as a teenager who is very introvert and s

Book Review: I Am Malala

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BOOK REVIEW: I AM MALALA About the Author: The book ’I Am Malala’ is an autobiography written by Malala Yousafzai who is an activist for female education. Through her story, she brings out her experience and incidents from the Swat Valley in Pakistan and the rise of Talibanisation (Tehrik-i-Taliban) and the terror which it caused. She focuses on the incident which took place on 9 th October, 2012 when she was shot at the age of 15 by the Talibs for being against them and for promoting female education in Pakistan. You can check out Malala’s website here . The book has been co-written by Christina Lamb who is a British Journalist and Author. She has written both fiction and non-fiction novels and is also the chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times. You can visit her website by clicking here . About the Book: ‘I am Malala’ was published on 8 th October, 2013 and is an autobiography of Malala Yousafzai. She narrates her story from being a girl child born i

Book Review- 'Perfect' by Ellen Hopkins

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Review: ‘Perfect’ by Ellen Hopkins About the Author: Ellen Hopkins is a novelist and a poet who has published many bestselling novels. She published her first novel ‘Crank’ in 2004. She is basically famous for writing Young Adult novels in the form of verses on serious teenage issues like suicide, drugs, depression, etc. This is the first book which I read by the author but I loved her way of writing and found it to be very unique and different. You can checkout her website here . About the Book: ‘Perfect’ is book which is written in the form of verses and poetry. It’s a young adult fiction which revolves around the lives of four teenagers- Cara, Kendra, Sean and Andre. The stories of each of these characters are interconnected and show that how four different teenagers who live in the same town, go to the same school and who know each other somehow suffer from different types of mental breakdowns. The first major character or narrator is Cara,  a 17 year old,