Category Literary Reviews

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Divergent review explores Veronica Roth’s debut novel, a story that thrusts readers into a dystopian Chicago where society is divided into strict factions. I still remember opening the book for the first time—the city felt familiar yet transformed, as if every corner carried an unspoken tension. Beatrice Prior, later known as Tris, is different […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are books that comfort you like an old song — and others that quietly unsettle you. A Series of Unfortunate Events belongs to the second kind. When I first entered Lemony Snicket’s world, I didn’t expect to feel both sympathy and unease. The story of the Baudelaire siblings is dark, strange, and, in a […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe pages of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief introduce Death as the narrator, a voice both unsettling and tender. Years later, the film adaptation raised a question—could this delicate story survive on screen? Adapting a beloved novel carries high expectations. The Book Thief captures quiet humanity amidst the chaos of war. The Heart of the […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a certain quiet ache that follows after finishing The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky’s novel doesn’t just tell a story — it invites you to relive your own adolescence, with all its confusion, longing, and quiet moments of clarity. From the very first page, it captures that fragile balance between vulnerability and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesI remember the first time I stumbled upon Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus. The air seemed to shimmer with possibility as I turned the pages, stepping into a world where magic feels tangible and the ordinary dissolves into wonder. From the very beginning, the novel pulls you into a place that exists somewhere between reality […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are books that do more than tell a story — they make you pause, look up, and feel the weight of what came before. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein is one of those books. I remember reading it on a quiet evening, the pages carrying the hum of propellers, the whispers of code, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a quiet afternoon when I found myself by a library window, the light slipping across the pages of a worn novel. The air was still, and yet something moved — the feeling that the story wasn’t just about its characters, but about the world around them. That was my first glimpse into what […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMagical realism is a literary genre where the ordinary and the fantastical coexist. Everyday life is infused with subtle magic. Events that seem impossible are presented naturally, as if they belong to the real world. Unlike traditional fantasy, magical realism does not create a separate universe. It threads wonder into familiar settings, inviting readers to […]