Top 5 Books of 2025
My top five reads of 2025 show that I keep coming back to the same moods, the same authors, and the same emotional vibes. A mix of new books and rereads, comfort picks and familiar obsessions. Some of them surprised…
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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner: Book Review
A dual timeline novel about a secret apothecary hidden beneath eighteenth-century London and the quiet consequences of choices made under pressure. The Lost Apothecary is all about character, choice, and how small decisions can have big consequences.
Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review
Klara and the Sun is a reserved novel that asks readers to be patient. It focuses on observation, repetition, and the space between intention and understanding, creating a controlled, distant, subdued reading experience that intrigues but doesn't always engage.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells: Book Review
All Systems Red it’s about a self-aware security unit, which calls itself Murderbot, just wants to be left alone to binge space soap operas and avoid humans. It’s sarcastic, awkward, and would rather hack its own programming than deal with…
Watchers by Dean Koontz: Book Review
A spoiler free review of Watchers by Dean Koontz, a fast paced thriller with science fiction and horror elements that starts strong and keeps the pages turning.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King: Book Review
A spoiler free-review of Fairy Tale by Stephen King, a dark fantasy novel about responsibility, choice, and a hidden world with its own rules.
Hell House by Richard Matheson: Book Review
A spoiler-free review of Hell House by Richard Matheson, focusing on character tension, psychological atmosphere, and restrained haunted house horror.
You Like It Darker by Stephen King: Book Review
A review of Stephen King’s You Like It Darker, a short story collection that delivers strong ideas, uneven execution, and familiar King atmosphere.
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig: Book Review
A dark horror novel about friendship, unresolved history, and a staircase that should not exist. Unsettling, demanding, and hard to shake once it gets going.
