Eliza and Her Monsters: Book Review

 

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5

This book easily goes to the list of my favorite YA Contemporary that deals with Mental Health. I can't believe I cried four (4) times!

"I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred of intimacy. I don't want to be alone in a room all the time. I don't want to be alone in a room all the time, even when there are other people."

The story revolves around Eliza Mirk who is already in her senior year of high school and described by her classmates as the creepy girl who has a secret hideout in the sewers. A quiet, shy and weird girl who experiences anxiety. However, everyone doesn't know she's LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the popular web comic Monstrous Sea. When Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea's biggest and popular fanfiction writer, transfers to her school everything starts to change, build and fall apart.

I love this book. It's just really incredible to find a book that gets you. A book you can relate to. Like how the way it puts into words the feelings you have always bottled up and unable to voice out. I honestly feel for Eliza, especially how she handles anxiety, the way she overthink what other people might say and whenever she gets frustrated with her parents when they forced her to do the things she don't like and just don't understand her. I can relate to those things in a certain level except when her sanity begins to fall apart.

Quinn and The Metropolis: Beta Read

          Quinn and the Metropolis
An Illustrated Novel by: Jay Pillerva
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My thoughts and review for Quinn and The Metropolis
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5

Thank you so much to the author Ms. Jay Pillerva for giving me a digital copy of your book in exchange for an honest review❤️

In the story, we follow our main character Quinn Vasquez, a new high school student at St. John's Academy. A typical girl who needs to deal with high school crushes and school works. However, when she started having nightmares of Cassandra, her so-called evil "twin" and encounters a bunch of students who would kill each other just for a box of pizza, she realized her life in the Metropolis wasn't so typical or normal at all.

"For sure, my mind wasn't the friendliest place I'd ever encountered."

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Book Review

 

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5

I found myself smiling the whole time while reading this book. ❤️✨

Wizard of Oz is a story about a little girl named Dorothy who lives in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Then, one day a cyclone happened and for a reason brought Dorothy to the magical Land of Oz, where she gets to meet weird yet amazing creatures and people who basically lived there. She also gets to meet new friends who will help her throughout the journey in meeting the powerful wizard named Oz to ask for help for Dorothy to return home. 

 

Persuasion: Book Review

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.5/5)

Wow! This book is A-MA-ZING! Jane Austen has done it again. I never thought Persuasion would surpassed my love for Pride and Prejudice.

The novel tells us the story of twenty-seven-year old Anne Eliot, who among Austen's works is the most adult heroine. Anne's family is about to experience a financial crisis, which led to put Kellynch Hall (their home) on a let. The interesting part is, the sister of Frederick Wentworth happens to be the tenant. Supposedly, eight years ago Anne and Frederick Wentworth were likely to get married, but she breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. Now that Wentworth is back as a rich and successful Captain of a navy, will they have a second chance in reuniting the love that has been lingering for too long?

Jane Austen is such a powerful writer. She's wise, strong-willed, sarcastic and full of wit. The way she wrote the plot and characters that will certainly reflect the strength and defects of the society at the same time is admirable. I've read this while listening to its audiobook and it gave me a complete reading experience.

Anne is the kind of character that readers would definitely support and root for. She's so kind and a capable woman. I just felt really sad that she's being oppressed by her own freakin' family! Her family is always shutting her out and not being listened to, this breaks my heart. Sir Walter Eliot and Elizabeth (Anne's father and older sister respectively) are the most self-centered, vain and absurd characters I've ever yet to know. They would always adhere to physical appearance as an important thing when it comes to rank in the society and feel superior to the poor, which they believed should be excluded from the society. I just can't believe their minds. The poor should be given attention as much as the rich receives, but then again reality and corrupt government sucks. In addition to my list of not so favorite character is Mary, also a sister of Anne. She's just too much for me and I find myself rolling my eyes at her. She can't even take care of her own child!

"I don't think any young woman has a right to make a choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient to the principal part of her family"

How could Mary say this? A woman have the right to make choices even if it's disagreeable to her family. Our choices should not always be in line with what our family wants especially when you know your choices and decisions are just.

Tuesdays with Morrie: Book Review

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5

    Tuesdays with Morrie follows a young man, Mitch who is reunited with his old professor Morrie Schwartz after 16 years. The catch is Morrie's dying. He is diagnosed with a disease called Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). So, Mitch decided to visit his professor every Tuesday for that one final class and the main subject: The Meaning of Life.

    This book broke me and made me as a whole at the same time. I know this book is not everyone's cup of tea but it has definitely filled up mine. This book is simple yet beautifully written. It's raw, thought provoking and so real. I was and still deeply moved by this memoir. The experiences and teachings about life is overflowing. Not to mention Morrie's sense of humor in this book is unbelievable despite that he's dying.

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