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Only Human (Book Three of the Themis Files)

“We’re not heroes. No one is. Every movie we watch, every book we read, we see people who can solve every problem, face every danger all on their own. But in real life, Vincent, we just call the cops. That’s what I did.” Only Human* Author: Sylvain Neuvel             ⭐⭐⭐.5                      Publisher: Penguin I have been meaning to get to this book review for weeks now, having finished the book in September, and even featuring it in my September Reads. However, the full review just never seemed to want to get written. After some pondering, I realised why that was. I wasn’t…

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September 2018 Reads

September marks exactly a year since I ended my Masters programme. To say it’s been a busy year would be an understatement. But interestingly enough, it’s also been my most personally productive. And by that I mean that while being in university forced me to be academically on the ball, being away from it has made me realise how much of my personal ambitions I had put to the side to focus on school. This blog, for example, has been a desire of mine and Z’s for years, but it only came to fruition after ending school, and having the…

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Waking Gods (Themis Files Book 2) – Book Review

Following from Sylvain Neuvel’s debut novel, Sleeping Giants, I took the first chance I could to go buy the next in the series of the Themis Files. Waking Gods was as much an excitement to read as the first book was (read my review of Sleeping Giants, here). So, of course, after tearing through it, I knew I had to write another review for it. Though in all honesty, I struggled with writing this review, mainly because the story is so engaging and complex simultaneously that I find it hard to describe it without including spoilers. With that said, Here…

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