A Belated Birthday Book Haul 📚 50+ Books Hauled

I read book one back in April 2025, and I read it while I was in China, and I freaking loved it. I thought was so good and I have been praising it to high heavens ever since

I have read Animal Farm and I did like it so who knows maybe I will end up enjoying this even more.

I am so excited to read this because I loved Bat Eater and I really do love this edition of the book.

Oh, the next book I have read, but I DNFed it, and it's Beyond the Planet of the Vampires by Ulric Baur, and I hated it. I hated it. It was so bad.

So please do read the first one. Everyone in my family has killed someone. So good.

This is not my favourite book in the series, but it is a little bit better than the Christmas novella that I read and just like every single book so far has still been absolutely fun to read. So entertaining.

I do think it gets a little bit convoluted, but I did predominantly enjoy this one and it was a riveting time. I did not expect the ending in all honesty.

And I like this one. I liked it.

I gave this one four stars. It is my favourite Uketsu book so far. It does still have those shortcomings that prevent Uketsu books from getting a five star from me.

It does still have those shortcomings that prevent Uketsu books from getting a five star from me. And usually that is because we get ourselves a little bit too wrapped up in trying to explain everything

It does still have those shortcomings that prevent Uketsu books from getting a five star from me. And usually that is because we get ourselves a little bit too wrapped up in trying to explain everything

And don't get me wrong, like I liked The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence.

But 100 pages in I've been given like a lot of history and it feels like a lot of history lessons back to back and I don't know enough about the characters yet to fully feel many things for them and I just feel like I'm just getting told a whole lot of stuff and I don't really enjoy that kind of storytelling style. So I might end up giving this one a DNF.

Even though I didn't love this one, there are still so many things that you can talk about with it with some really standout scenes that I think will stick with me for a long time.

And this was good. Like, it wasn't brilliant.

Five stars genuinely I thought was so good. I wasn't expecting some of the more supernatural elements of this one.

I don't think I fully understood everything that this book was doing. Definitely different and it was short enough that I ploughed through it pretty quickly, but it was just okay to me.

There was some interesting themes explored in the first book and a lot of commentary and I genuinely can't wait to see what the second book actually ends up entailing

And the case itself was incredibly interesting and we predominantly follow one of the jury members and it was just such a wild ride and it was so quick and easy to read. I found myself flying through the pages.