BATB Score: 5/10 🙂‍↔️ Best to: okie Gregg Olsen, you do much better with nonfiction than fiction; could also be, that no fiction imagination can beat the suspense and thriller of real life Best as: it’s okay, let me buy your nonfiction books and give you another chance Best for: if you are going to read one book and one book only from Gregg Olsen, please read “If You Tell” 10/10 BATB score Best quote: “People born rich don’t try so hard. They know they don’t need to. They al

BATB Score: 6/10 🍎 🔪 okay but not wow Best to: Freida McFadden’s latest 2024 work “The Teacher” book number 27; wow imagine making 27 unique masterpieces Best as: once you have your hands down best seller best book ever “Never Lie”, it is truly difficult to compete with your own legacy BATB lingering thoughts: people expects more from you all the time and it’s insane and exhausting to always one up oneself - better to please no one Best for: reading Freida McFadden for the

BATB score: 6/10 🖤 Best as: okie I think I’ve cracked Freida McFadden’s writing style! first 150 pages: character build up but basically nothing much meh meh bleh bleh second 50 pages: some mystery that makes you question every character eh who is who last third 50 pages: close to figuring out the truth (you think!) start questioning yourself whether this book was even worth the read final 30 pages: surprise! last 5 page: another surprise!!! epilogue 3 pages: and another sur

BATB score: 3/10 😒 meh. Best as: a string of women across generations within the same family line who have all been a victim or a witness of sexual harassment from other men family members BATB lingering thought: difficult to love the characters and thus difficult to be moved by or feel for the book Best as: doubles as memory + attention-to-detail test as there are ~10 character stories that intertwine ♾️ Best to: if you have not read any of Gregg Olsen book, read “If You Te

BATB score: 2/10 🙈 (I am sorry) this book was a waste of time - watery, no meat, no character love, no climax, nothing really, just redundant words. Best as: a fictional diary of a fictional grandmother going to Ibiza for the first time > scuba diving, old dusty Airbnb, new neighbors, poker at the casino, protecting the environment, some magic water, fortune telling, and the multiverse BATB lingering thought: the 80~ chapter breakdown is ADHD weird Best for: Matt Haig, pleas

BATB score: 5/10 🛶👒 not bad not bad Best as: a long weekend read for the pure fun of reading - isn’t that what reading is supposed to be for? BATB lingering thought: these days, reading has become a bragged hobby, an academic show-off, an I read, you Netflix? thus every book you read has evolved to be part of your intellectual identity and so naturally you steer to the boring scholarly accepted books > now what’s the joy in that? Best for: if you are bored of Netflix, this

BATB Score: 3/10 🥀 *reader discretion advised* BATB truly dislike fantasy (romantic?) fiction - ugh cringe; will not be continuing on the route to complete all 5 series - byeeee Best as: Amazon Q3’24 top 10 most read fiction books; so might as well give it a try as a true book enthusiast Best to: the first 300 pages was so slow and boring BATB score 0/10; the last 100 pages, wasn’t too bad but wasn’t that great either Best for: damsel in distress meets beauty and the beast m

BATB score: 5/10 💔🧳 a Netflix series book adaptation featuring Gong Ji-cheol Yoo BATB lingering thought: I’ve always wondered what criteria were use to select books to make a series/movie adaptation from especially Netflix Original high standards; what the hell, it was a mediocre book with zero thriller nor romance nor revenge Best as: the book’s premise of rental wife / husband is interesting; could it be that Netflix picks just the fundamental concepts of a book and then

BATB score: 7/10 🧍‍♂️ wahhh.. almost there but didn’t quite hit the spot - so close! Best to: Freida McFadden signature style writing - hook the reader into this suspense, mystery, theories on how the story is going to unveil itself for 250+ pages alongside the confused main character; and then surprise, after surprise, after surprise until the epilogue - all your guesses are wrong wa ga ga! Best as: you are invested, you read this far, you need to know, you will finish this

BATB score: 9/10 👏 oh my god Freida! girlfriend WTF, my stomach churns, shortage of breathe, need to pause, need to slow down, and need to digest, before you reveal the truth Best to: an extremely moving read, welcome to Freida McFadden’s signature writing style, that moves your brain, your heart, your gut Best as: I strongly believe that reading a book is supposed to be like this, it’s supposed to be fun, one that you can’t put the book down, one that you don’t regret readi

BATB score: 9/10 BATB linger thought: Freida’s real mother was the first person to read the first draft of this book and she said “wow”; sometimes we all need a wow Best to: read an academic book and then read a Frieda McFadden book or else you will just be too smart for life Best as: it’s like I try to guess what’s going to happen and still completely missed it Best for: McFans Best quote: “I’m done living in the fast lane. Done rushing to make deadlines and getting pushed d

BATB score: 4/10 🥶 Best as: meh. this book was below average for Freida McFadden Best to: read something else, don't worry I forgive you Best for: McFans; to support and read everything Freida McFadden the moment it is release ie. January 2025!

BATB score: 5/10 🤷‍♀️ Best to: meh Best as: meh Best for: meh BATB lingering thought: meh, I guess we should pause reading Frieda McFadden’s books for a while

BATB score: 4/10 ☄️ point of clarification: I’ve never read The Little Prince and I would like to understand why there’s a The Little Prince exhibition in 2025; meh, I didn’t like it one bit 🙄 Best as: a simple, short, but yet very confusing story with numerous characters; the essence of the book requires a lot of deciphering BATB lingering thought: people sharing their lessons learnt from The Little Prince, loneliness, love, friendship, and the loss of innocence, did you ju