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I was a bit surprised about this book, I thought it was an adventure of a cat with human attributes, but it turns out the "story" is the real life of the author and his cats (I do not read synopsis as you may have guessed already). I have only one cat and even though I do not give him a particular personality, I found myself recognizing a lot of what was happening. I too have travelled by car with a cat for 2h and it was 2h more than it should have been. Moving with a cat and making it the priority of the move makes you believe in hell. The author's sense of humour is witty and I finished the book much quicker than I realized, having bought it mainly because The Bear died and I wanted to contribute with something to the author that made me laugh so many times on Twitter. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys cats, not sure about dog lovers (even though I also have a dog). I am definitely reading the rest of this series.

A fairy godmother dies and somewhere in the world a goddaughter is left without one of her fairy godmothers. But is the missing one the good or the bad fairy godmother? Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg do not think Magrat Garlick is able to handle this new business of fairy godmothering by herself, and decide to keep her company on their visit abroad to meet the goddaughter. And make sure she does not marry the prince because no one would want that!

As always, Terry Pratchett delivers a hysterical story with the most beloved witches in the Discworld. This is a book where we learn people should have what they need, and not what they want. And that good people do precisely that. Also that people should not be turned into animals, and that things have a tendency to be turned into pumpkins when a wand is around. I think I might have learnt how to handle a bull in the middle of a street and that happy endings are highly overrated - no one should want one.

Mr and Mrs Darcy have been together for 4 years but Elizabeth is not happy. After a particularly baffling confession from Elizabeth, Darcy is dumbfounded and bitten by a zombie. Elizabeth asks her arch-enemy Lady Catherine de Bourgh for help because she is believed to have a mysterious antidote, and there is nothing Elizabeth will not do to cure her husband.

This book was very entertaining. When I first started, I thought it was great that the author had the liberty to choose the story instead of following one of the most beloved ones ([b:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies|5899779|Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)|Seth Grahame-Smith|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320449653s/5899779.jpg|6072122]), but soon I changed my mind and thought this was inferior to the first. This submissive Elizabeth was not the Elizabeth I had pictured in my mind and things were not going as I hoped for. However, as soon as Mary enters the scene, the story somersaults - like its many (many) ninjas - and drastically changes its course. It has good fights, very satisfying crunchy deaths, witty dialogues and fun/weird characters. It is a great read and I ended up liking it better than the first. And although Mary is a great character, it is Kitty who carries the book.

Johannes Cabal gave his soul to Satan in exchange for powers that would make him able to defeat death. But the more he researched, the more he realised he needed his soul back to continue his experiments. So he went back to Hell and made a deal where he would get his soul back if he could damn 100 souls in a year with the help of an evil travelling carnival.

There are two main types of books: the "just one more chapter" ones that translate into sleepless nights and the "anti-insomnia" ones that actually make me doze off. This book falls into the second category after a surprising good start. Johannes Cabal is a Harry Dresden wannabe (see [b:Storm Front|47212|Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)|Jim Butcher|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1419456275s/47212.jpg|1137060]), but lacks all the personality of the latter and dare I say, intelligence. For a scientist, he is not smart at all and I do not understand why he does not care. He does not get across as a human character. His brother Horst is a much better character, I think I would have preferred this story from his point of view. Nevertheless, the beginning is quite funny and I was interested in knowing more, but then it sort of gets lost along the way with a lot of weird pointless passages, and the end is not that great. It is still entertaining, hence the 3 stars.

In the world Vin survives in, ash falls from the sky and streets are filled with dirt and soot. There is no green nor the warmth of sun. The Lord Ruler is the immortal that has controlled the Final Empire for centuries and murdered/enslaved countless people. However, somes slaves are mistborns - people who are able to control metals - and they are preparing to fight back.

I finally finished this book, hurrah! I feel like I spent one century reading about Vin's inner feelings of mistrust towards Humanity in general. However, Vin's world is brilliantly built, allomancy is superbly structured and the characters are profound and easy to like. But I am pretty sure this book could have been told in 300 pages and no one would miss the other 200. I am torn because the whole idea behind the book deserves 5 starts but the actual storytelling only deserves 3. I am going to settle for 4 and dread to read the 2nd book because it will be slower and I will not care if everyone dies (that is how trilogies work, after all). I may be finished with this trilogy when I am retired in 50 years...

Brutha is the definition of a simple man who prefers someone else to do the thinking. He believes in the god Om and he believes Om brings peace and justice through the arms of the Quisition, particularly through the fingers of its leader Vorbis. Brutha's life is turned upside down when his god Om starts speaking to him in the form of an insignificant turtle, and Vorbis takes him along on a diplomatic mission to Ephebe - a dangerous place full of ideas and thinkers.

In a perfect world, kids would read this book in class and discuss every passage. Learn why it is important to ask things and build personal opinions, why they should not let other people tell them what to do, what to think, and what is right or wrong. Learn to be kind, but also understand when they are being lied to, even when that lie is disguised behind the greater good.

I am not sure Pratchett was human, I cannot begin to understand how a real person is able to carry such a horrible and delicate subject with such grace and humour. I think I am a believer of "Pratchettism" (and therefore I am!).

Bobbie Faye's brother has a habit of getting himself into bad-women situations, but it is particularly bad when he is kidnapped by a gangster. Bobbie Faye that is currently taking care of her niece has to save him, while running from the cops, the FBI, ex-boyfriends, news reporters and a social services' assistant.

This book was suggested by Goodreads' algorithm since I like Evanovich's Stephanie Plum. I was utterly surprised to find this over the top in comparison, I never thought of Plum books as toned down but somehow they feel more realistic and I like their humour better. This was an entertaining action story though I missed being introduced to the characters and confused them a lot. The suspense did not work at all, and the end was written to make me buy the second book, which I did not enjoy since I am afraid the suspense is again poorly built.

Stephanie Plum is looking for Jimmy Poletti but ends up finding corpses, and so she uses Briggs as bait to try and get to Poletti since he was his accountant. Grandma Mazur is more worried about her bucket list, which involves Morelli's grandma Bella and therefore might be more dangerous than finding Poletti. But the most dangerous case is with Ranger that has a a very big radioactive problem in his hands.

This book possibly has the most intricate stories of all of Plum's books so far. Stephanie has a lot of FTAs, and her main case - Jimmy Poletti - is also Morelli's and part of a bigger network that connects all characters. Usually I do not even pay attention to most names because they come and go, but in this one I had to keep tabs on who was who. Ranger has his one big problem, which actually works to make him more endearing towards Stephanie. Funny enough, there was no real mystery going on but I found this story better than the most of the recent ones. Evanovich never fails to make me laugh and/or snort, which is the reason why I keep reading. Also, I may like chihuahuas a little more now.

Anna is sort of a hermit that lives for her job surrounded by old books, until a very valuable one comes to her and Anna believes it is her duty to give it back by hand to its rightful owner and not by courier. So even though she is an agoraphobe, germophobe and a lot more adjectives that end in "phobe", she bravely gets on a plane to Half-Moon Hollow to deliver that precious book to Jane Jameson. And then her plane crashes.

I could not put this book down, but I am afraid I was expecting more - probably because whole idea of having a germophobe lost in the woods promised a lot of laugh out moments, but failed short. They basically walked and slept, where were the savage animals, the lost tribes, eating disgusting things, hazardous survival ideas, meeting amazons,...? All those absolutely ridiculous but perfectly plausible scenes to this sort of book? I enjoyed the story, I liked how the main character is so like Jane but also very different, how she grows and fights but I was left wanting more.