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Het loon van de duivel (De bende van de Bokkenrijders #4) by Ton van Reen
5.0
Bullet review:
+Definitely the most anxiety-inducing book of them all, you never once feel like you get a moment's rest alongside Mathijs because he might be arrested and tortured at any point in the book.
+Interesting character development for Mathijs (and to a lesser extent Kirchhoffs).
+Some very brutal scenes, but written in an engaging way still.
+Lots of action in this one.
-Ending is a bit ambiguous. It didn't bother me TOO much but I can see this putting people off, since this is the final book in the series.
+Definitely the most anxiety-inducing book of them all, you never once feel like you get a moment's rest alongside Mathijs because he might be arrested and tortured at any point in the book.
+Interesting character development for Mathijs (and to a lesser extent Kirchhoffs).
+Some very brutal scenes, but written in an engaging way still.
+Lots of action in this one.
-Ending is a bit ambiguous. It didn't bother me TOO much but I can see this putting people off, since this is the final book in the series.
De gesel van het zwarte goud (De bende van de Bokkenrijders #3) by Ton van Reen
5.0
Bullet review:
+Van Reen is REALLY good at making the reader feel immersed in this location, the characters and the culture at the time.
+This is a book that has mostly more mellow scenes and less "Bokkenrijder-ing", but it still was thoroughly engaging. Honestly I could read a book JUST about Mathijs' studies and the mineworkers' rights and I'd be just as engaged even without the Bokkenrijder stuff.
+Interesting character development for Mathijs and Kirchhoffs.
+Van Reen is REALLY good at making the reader feel immersed in this location, the characters and the culture at the time.
+This is a book that has mostly more mellow scenes and less "Bokkenrijder-ing", but it still was thoroughly engaging. Honestly I could read a book JUST about Mathijs' studies and the mineworkers' rights and I'd be just as engaged even without the Bokkenrijder stuff.
+Interesting character development for Mathijs and Kirchhoffs.
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Graham Spence, Lawrence Anthony
4.0
Really interesting account of the author's journey to help the animals at the Baghdad Zoo around the time of the Iraq war. At times hard to read and quite brutal, but it makes the heroic efforts of Anthony and the other rescuers all the better to read about. I quite enjoyed reading this book and really got enveloped into the events here. Might check out more of Anthony's books at a later date.
The Great Timbers by Erica Summers, James A. Kane
3.0
This book is sexist and the wolf(dog) on the cover is barely in it. Kinda disappointing.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury
Brilliant White Peaks by Teng Rong
2.0
One word: bland.
For a more expansive bullet review:
+A wholesome relationship between the two main siblings.
-Almost none of the characters have names, resulting in it being harder to connect with them.
-No interesting world-building for the wolf society, lore and culture, etc.
-Characters are very bland and forgettable.
-The plot (if you could even call it that, this book is mostly just wolves doing wolf-y things without much of a story) is equally bland and forgettable. It's an inconclusive book, too.
-Overall just feels like a nothingburger of a book. I don't feel I got anything out of it.
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2024/12/book-review-brilliant-white-peaks-by.html
For a more expansive bullet review:
+A wholesome relationship between the two main siblings.
-Almost none of the characters have names, resulting in it being harder to connect with them.
-No interesting world-building for the wolf society, lore and culture, etc.
-Characters are very bland and forgettable.
-The plot (if you could even call it that, this book is mostly just wolves doing wolf-y things without much of a story) is equally bland and forgettable. It's an inconclusive book, too.
-Overall just feels like a nothingburger of a book. I don't feel I got anything out of it.
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2024/12/book-review-brilliant-white-peaks-by.html