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Zom-B Underground by Darren Shan | Book Review

6 Aug 20196 Aug 2019 by Danielle T. Murray, posted in Book Review, Book: 2010s, Books

This review contains SPOILERS for both Zom-B Underground and the previous books. If you would like to read the other reviews you can find them in the Zom-B series tag.

“I can give you two words,” I tell him. “The second is off. Can you guess the first?”

In a way, this book and the first one, while being arguably very different, are both introductions to the series. Zom-B introduces us to our main character B and got the ball rolling when it comes to the zombies (and mutants). If you think of that book more as a preface then Zom-B Underground is really the start to the series. You do need both to fully prepare yourself but the first book is more like the calm before the storm in a lot of ways and Zom-B Underground is the start of the actual storm. The pair of them connect really well and it definitely feels like the pacing and structure is going to be good across the entire series and not just during the individual books.

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Zom-B by Darren Shan | Book Review [Spoiler free]

24 Jul 20196 Aug 2019 by Danielle T. Murray, posted in Book Review, Book: 2010s, Books

[Header image originally from @danielletmurray on instagram.]

This is actually my second time reading this book. In fact, I was reading the series as it came out but over time I, unfortunately, lost track of the releases and never got the chance to finish the series. I did, however, manage to get through 9 of the 12 books but instead of picking up where I left off (considering there was a pretty big gap in time), I decided to just start from the beginning and write a little review for each book a long the way. So for this review, there will be no spoilers whatsoever considering it’s for the first book.

For those of you who don’t know, Zom-B follows B, a teenager living in London where zombies attack. Even before the undead rise, B lives a life filled with racism and abuse that are just as important in their story as the zombies. Throughout, we see how all of those things can connect and we get to know B as our main character.

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Where Else Have I Been Posting? | January 2019

13 Feb 201914 Feb 2019 by Danielle T. Murray, posted in Updates

A little bit late for this first post but something I want to do every month is to make a post that links to all of the articles that I’ve written that weren’t published here on Wonderoes. I’ll mostly be linking to pieces I’ve written about movies, TV shows, books, and similar forms of entertainment. However, some other posts may slip in from time to time.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick | Book Review

8 Feb 201924 Jul 2019 by Danielle T. Murray, posted in Book Review, Book: 2010s, Books

There are MINOR spoilers.

More than a couple of years ago now, I was on holiday in a little seaside town in England when I wandered into a shop that sold novelty items and clothing. On one of the shelves sat The Invention of Hugo Cabret and it was being sold for only £4. I knew a little about it and that most people generally liked it so I bought it. I didn’t, however, read it until today which is something that I deeply regret because this book is fantastic.

Landline by Rainbow Rowell | Book Review

21 Jan 201924 Jul 2019 by Danielle T. Murray, posted in Book Review, Book: 2010s, Books

This post contains spoilers.

I’ve wanted to read Landline ever since it came out. Unfortunately, it’s taken me until now to actually pick it up but fortunately, I quite enjoyed it. The concept has always stood out to me and while I’ve read her three young adult books: Fangirl, Eleanor and Park, and Carry on. I hadn’t read this or her other adult book Attachments. I was intrigued by the plot of this book but also the fact that it was aimed at adults. I really like Rowell’s writing and I was curious to see what I would think when it came to a different target audience.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before [Trilogy] by Jenny Han

10 Oct 201824 Jul 2019 by Danielle T. Murray, posted in Book Review, Book: 2010s

NOTE ABOUT SPOILERS: This post will be reviewing all three books in the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy by Jenny Han so there will be spoilers for all three of them.

So, although this trilogy has been on my radar since the first book came out in 2014, I didn’t get the chance to read them until the movie adaptation came out this year. Well, I actually listened to the audiobooks and they were pretty great.

The narrator, Laura Knight Keating, did a really fantastic job. I love how she changed her voice ever so lightly for each character. It got to the point where I knew exactly who was talking without the need for Lara Jean to clarify who was speaking. Listening to the trilogy created this whole experience that made reading each book more and more entertaining.

The rest of this post is going to be split into sections that will talk about each book.

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