WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by
Taking on a World of Words that highlights three questions:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished reading
The Alienist by Caleb Carr on Monday and I ended up really enjoying it. It was about an
Alienist (the term back then for someone who studies mental illnesses) and his team who are hunting a serial killer in 1896 New York. It was very gritty and graphic at times but I really liked how the story unfolded. Most of the thrillers I read give you a handful of suspects and you are kinda able to guess who the killer is going to be out of the people already introduced but this novel used a different approach. It reminded me a lot of Criminal Minds and CSI where they spend the majority of the novel profiling the killer in order to catch him. It was kinda slow in places but would definitely recommend if you like these kind of books.
I also just finished reading
Before the Broken Star by Emily R. King which was my Kindle First book for May. I didn't go into this with any expectations but I found this suprisingly fun. It was about a young girl (with a clockwork heart, how cool!?) who travels to a dangerous isle to hunt down the man who killed her family in a race against time. This was a lot of fun, it incorporated so much magic and folklore into it and i'm excited to continue the series. My full review will be up soon!
What are you currently reading?
I'm just about to start
That's Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger . I wasn't the biggest fan of her most popular novel,
The Duff (although I adored the film
) so i'm hoping i'll have better luck with this one. It's about the aftermath of a school shooting told from the perspective of six survivors. The content is pretty heavy and understandably I think this is going to be a difficult read but hopefully a powerful one as well.
What do you think you'll read next?
I'm planning on reading
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl next which is the first book in the
Cogheart Adventures, a middle grade fantasy series. I was actually approved for the second book in the series
Moonlocket on Netgalley but when I went to find the first book, I looked on Scribd and found all
three books in the series available to read which was a little confusing. I'm guessing they're re-releasing the second book under a different publisher in August or something? I don't know. Anyway, seeing as all the books are there already I think i'm going to read all three and do a series review instead.
Have you read any of these? What did you think? What are you currently reading and hoping to pick up next? Leave a
comment or link your own WWW Wednesdays below for me to check out!
I finished reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr on Monday and I ended up really enjoying it. It was about an Alienist (the term back then for someone who studies mental illnesses) and his team who are hunting a serial killer in 1896 New York. It was very gritty and graphic at times but I really liked how the story unfolded. Most of the thrillers I read give you a handful of suspects and you are kinda able to guess who the killer is going to be out of the people already introduced but this novel used a different approach. It reminded me a lot of Criminal Minds and CSI where they spend the majority of the novel profiling the killer in order to catch him. It was kinda slow in places but would definitely recommend if you like these kind of books.
I also just finished reading Before the Broken Star by Emily R. King which was my Kindle First book for May. I didn't go into this with any expectations but I found this suprisingly fun. It was about a young girl (with a clockwork heart, how cool!?) who travels to a dangerous isle to hunt down the man who killed her family in a race against time. This was a lot of fun, it incorporated so much magic and folklore into it and i'm excited to continue the series. My full review will be up soon!
I'm just about to start That's Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger . I wasn't the biggest fan of her most popular novel, The Duff (although I adored the film) so i'm hoping i'll have better luck with this one. It's about the aftermath of a school shooting told from the perspective of six survivors. The content is pretty heavy and understandably I think this is going to be a difficult read but hopefully a powerful one as well.
I'm planning on reading Cogheart by Peter Bunzl next which is the first book in the Cogheart Adventures, a middle grade fantasy series. I was actually approved for the second book in the series Moonlocket on Netgalley but when I went to find the first book, I looked on Scribd and found all 
I recently finished reading The Art Of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson which ended up being a pretty mixed bag for me. It was a book that I heard lots of good things about when it was first released all the way back in 2015 but never got to reading. I spotted a copy in my local library so I decided to give it a go. There were a lot of things that I liked about it but there were also some issues that stuck out for the wrong reasons. I'm planning on posting a review for this book so hopefully that will be up soon.
I also just finished The Girl Who Came Out Of The Woods by Emily Barr. This was an eARC read I got through netgalley and I really enjoyed this one. It ended up going in a completely different direction then I thought it was going to go as I orginally thought it would be closer to a thriller but this was still a solid contemporary. My review for this one should be up in the next couple of weeks. 
My current read is A Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett which is a book I'm reading as part of a personal challenge to read one classic a month. I decided to start off with a pretty easy children's book to ease my way in to this challenge. I'm only a couple of chapters in although it's a really short book but I'm enjoying it so far. I was fairly sure I would cause the film is one of my childhood favourites.
For my physical read i'm planning on picking up The Alienist by Caleb Carr which is another library book. I knew this book was turned into a mini-series recently and I always like to read the source material first. This looks really interesting and i'm definitely in the mood for a historical mystery-thriller.
Jay Reguero plans to
spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before
heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers
that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President
Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about
what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real
story.
