Night_frog
Fantasy (ya and sometimes adult) and ya (mostly) horror lover. I do enjoy a lot of classics too.
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October 2026
4.33 average · 33 reviews
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This cannot have finished already. I can't wait to get the rest of the story. I NEED to know. I think I could read Lenù recount her life forever.
It's so well written and I love the way the narration jumps from event in event and starts connecting them later. Sometimes interrupting one episode to start another that ends up being related with how the one put aside continues. This is more present in the first part, the second is a little more chronological. Either way, I loved both styles.
The voice of the narration feels natural and spontaneous, but is never too colloquial. It has a perfect flow that keeps you gripped at every word, waiting to know more. Tension is crafted page after page, growing as the adventures of the two friends start to feel less magical and daring and turn concrete and dangerous.
All characters are well-distinct and have interesting aspects to their personality.
I've been thinking, it's pretty clear different months are for different genres/specific plot elements, aren't they? This is what I associate the different months with, curious to know whether we match or you have different associations. To be honest, I don't follow this to a t, actually, I stray away from it a lot, but if someone asked me to give them associations off the top of my head, this is what I would come up with.
January: Thrillers, especially ya thrillers, I don't have an explanation but the fact that When we were monsters by Jennifer Niven is set in January and that is the first thriller I ever read.
February: Books that make you cry. Angst season. Maybe with a bit of found family for comfort. Or classics. The two things actually don't have to cancel each other out. If you can recommend me a classic with sibling angst for February 2027 I will be very very grateful.
March: Something with a side of romance. Also, possibly comedic books. Especially comedic fantasy/romantacy.
April: Post-apocalyptic setting.
May: Coming of age stories. Also, does light academia exist as a novel setting as well as dark academia? Because in that case I feel it would fit May very well and I'd be definitely down to read something like that.
June: Obviously, books with LGBT+ characters. Any genre.
July/August: Can't decide which one is for high fantasy and which one is for summerween. On one end, July is a bit creepy, on the other August is closer to Halloween, so it feels more in tone with it.
September: Dark academia, back to school is hard enough, let's at least romanticise it a bit.
October: Horror, no explanations needed.
November: Short philosophy/philosophical books.
December: Anything Christmas themed obviously, romance, horror, fantasy. Doesn't matter. The Christmas theme is the constant.
Night_frog commented...
Ok wow, I have some
My brilliant friend - Elena Ferrante (my new favourite book and it's from an Italian author, so from my country!)
First love: essays on friendship - Lilly Dancyger
The spirit bares its teeth - A J White
Don't let the forest in - C G Drews
Aristotle and Dante duology - Alire Sáenz
I recommend all of these a lot, they really are wonderful books and stories I carry in my heart every day since I read them.
Hii guys!!
Im here for book recs for the books that broke your souls and left you bawling at 3 am and staring at a wall because it was so devastating.
Go!
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