Hello everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews…again. My name is Melina, and I am a bibliophile, a lover of books, a bibliophage, an ardent reader and a bibliotaph. I hoard books. I am all things biblio. In this blog, I review books of different genres including literary fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, fantasy, YA, and others. Please feel free to turn the page and look around. Hopefully, one of my reviews will help you decide to pick up a book or not. If you’re interested in a review for your published book, please click here to get on my wish list. Happy…
Book Recommendations from Hubby, Thing 1 and Thing 2
Hubby: Matilda by Roald Dahl My husband recently discovered this book and loved it. He said he regrets not reading any Roald Dahl books when he was younger but has now started to fix that. He is binge reading all of this author’s books. Thing 1 (Age 7): Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling My daughter is only just discovering children’s classics, and Kipling is definitely that. She loved all the stories in this edition of Just So Stories and is looking forward to picking it up again. She tends to read the books she loves more than once, like…
OCTOBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hi everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be talking about the books I read in October. I read 6 books this month. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. SELF-PUBLISHED EPIC FANTASY: Of Blood And Fire by Ryan Cahill When I first started reading fantasy, I read epic fantasy. I love this genre, but I had to take a break from it after reading it nonstop for several years. Today, I’m trying to get back into it and I thought that Of Blood And Fire by Ryan Cahill, Book One of The Bound And The Broken…
SEPTEMBER 2025: Best and Worst Books of the Month
Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in September. In this post, I talk about 5 books, two of which I already in my monthly wrap up. However, I talk about why these books made it to my best, worst, and DNF lists. Here goes: 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas I didn’t like this book because D’Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos are not likeable characters. They’re ultimately vigilantes who perform justice by their own hand. Every crime they commit, which includes murder and rape, is disguised…
Book Recommendations from Hubby, Thing 1, and Thing 2
Hubby: The Dungeon Crawler Carl Series by Matt Dinniman My husband has been listening to this series for the last few months and recently finished Book 7. He highly recommends it if what you want is to have a good time and a good laugh. Congratulations! You’ve earned your first achievement: Adding this series to your TBR. Thing 1 (Age 7): Enchanted Mist (Book 10 of Star Friends Series) Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends — they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals…
SEPTEMBER WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hi everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be talking about the books I read in September. This month I read 4 books, 3 of which are classical novels. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. CLASSICS AND AMERICAN LITERATURE: Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville What is Moby-Dick about? On the surface, Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville is an adventure story about a mad captain’s quest for revenge against a great white whale. The novel’s complexity, however, lies underneath the surface. Like the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, there is so much more…
AUGUST 2025: Best and Worst Books of the Month
Hi everyone. Welcome back to my Best and Worst Reads of the month posts. In August, I read 3 books and DNF’d 1; I talk about that DNF here. I did finish, however, a series this month. Unfortunately, I didn’t like how it ended much. Also, I have already talked about these books in my monthly wrap up so I won’t go into too much detail here. Let’s start: 1. WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH: A Reaper At The Gates by Sabaa Tahir A Reaper At The Gates is the third book of The Ember Quartet by this author. Each…
AUGUST WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hi everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be talking about the books I read in August. Sorry that it’s taken me this long to post. This month I read 3 books. Spoiler Alert: These reviews have spoilers. Here are my thoughts about them: 1. YA FANTASY AND ROMANCE: A Reaper At The Gates by Sabaa Tahir This is the third book of the Ember Quartet by this author. Each title of the series refers to one of the story’s main characters: Laia, Elias, and Helene. The first referred to Laia, the second to Helene, and this third installment…
BOOK SERIES: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m reviewing An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. In this post, I will talk about all four books of this series and rate it as a whole at the end of the review. This series was published in 2015-2020. Click here for more information. I DNF’d this series twice before picking it up a third time and actually finishing it. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir was one of the first YA Fantasy books I ever picked up. It is widely popular and considered one of the…
JULY 2025: Best and Worst Book of the Month
Hi everyone. Welcome back to my Best and Worst Reads of the month posts. I read 5 books in July and in this post I will talk both about my favorite book of the month and my lowest rated book that I read this month. Note that this time I am not talking about a book I didn’t like, it is just the book that I rated the lowest; nonetheless, I still liked it. I will start with the best book I read in July. 1. BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Land of Open Graves by Jason de León…
JULY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hi everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’ll be talking about all the books I read in July. This month I read 5 books. Let’s dive in: 1. CLASSICS AND POETRY: Iliad by Homer, translated by Stanley Lombardo This is the fourth translation of The Iliad by Homer that I pick up in the last two years trying to find my favorite in the vast array of translations readily available of this epic poem. This is a translation that I did not know about. A fellow ardent reader of classics told me about it and suggested I give it…