Shadow and Bone
★★★★☆
First book of a YA fantasy series with excellent and rich world building and complex characters who are not all stark black-and-white.
The Water Knife
★★★★☆
Paolo's second ecological dystopian (cli-fi?) novel sets the action in the arid American south west, where water is the most precious commodity.
The God Delusion
★★★★★
A book that is as brutal and honest as its title. This is like a handbook of reference for any atheist for the range of illogical, childish or even intelligent theist arguments that might be addressed to him.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
★★★★★
It's like a common man's version of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. But where Diamond's book is a scientific treatise, this one has a more narrative structure along with some insightful conclusions
Beautiful Creatures
★☆☆☆☆
An unholy mess involving witches & wizards, reincarnation, American civil war, its re-enactment, a teenage romance and the insular mindset of deep south America.
Bad Science
★★★★★
Medical doctor Ben Goldacre disassembles some of the biggest bullshitters supposedly sharing medical, health and/or nutrition theories or even cures at best just placebos, or at worse harmful, who in many cases have their voices amplified by the media.
Sharp Objects
★★★☆☆
Disturbing story. Disturbing characters. This book will make you feel uncomfortable, that's what Gillian Flynn does best!
Project Hail Mary
★★★★★
This book is half science experiments, half wacky buddy comedy — and it just works so well! That nerdy glee I felt on every page of The Martian is back full force.
Thirteen Reasons Why
★★★★☆
Clay's crush is dead. Suicide. A couple of weeks later, he gets a box of tapes recorded by her, her suicide note, listing 13 reasons why she did take her own life. He is one of those 13...
The Last Wish
★★★★★
A simple way of putting it... a collection of tales about a man hunting monsters for money. But then, this book (and in fact, the whole series) is so much more...
The Maze Runner
★☆☆☆☆
Another young-adult dystopian science fiction, in the mould of The Hunger Games