RAZZIE AWARDS 2025

Benvenut*, benvenut* gentil* telespettator* al momento dell'anno: i RAZZIE AWARDS!*

Siamo qui riuniti per parlare dei libri che ci sono piaciuti di meno durante questo 2025 e adesso bando alle ciance e iniziamo perché le categorie sono tante e il tempo vola!

*Per chi non lo sapesse i Razzie Awards sono i premi per i libri peggiori letti durante il 2025 dal Team Spill the Books!

Ricordatevi che queste sono le nostre opinioni e se a voi è piaciuto uno dei libri che a noi non è piaciuto siamo contente che voi la pensiate diversamente!

Nel caso una di noi ritenga di non poter mettere nessun libro in quella categoria non inserirà niente.

Quale sarà il libro a ricevere più Razzie quest'anno? Andiamo a scoprirlo!

PEGGIOR LIBRO DELL'ANNO

Chiara: Eldritch (The Eating Woods,#2)

Erika: One Dark Window 

Camilla: Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR LIBRO FANTASY

Chiara: Eldritch (The Eating Woods,#2)

Erika: One Dark Window 

Camilla: Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR ROMANCE/CONTEMPORARY

Chiara: The Launch Date

Erika: Deep End 

Camilla: Forget Me Not

PEGGIOR PROTAGONISTA FEMMINILE

Chiara: Raeve - When the Moon Hatched

Erika: Elspeth Spindle - One Dark Window

Camilla: Evelyn - Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR PROTAGONISTA MASCHILE

Chiara: //

Erika: Heath Rocha - The Favorites (consapevole di prendermi odio per questo, ma non mi è piaciuto ok?) 

Camilla: Arden - Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR PERSONAGGIO SECONDARIO FEMMINILE

Chiara: Rykaia- Anathema (The Eating Woods,#1)

Erika: Penelope - Deep End

Camilla: //

PEGGIOR PERSONAGGIO SECONDARIO MASCHILE

Chiara: Lorcan di The Robin on the Oak Throne

Erika: //

Camilla: Mark Allen - Releasing 10 (deve morire maleeee)

PEGGIOR MONDO FANTASY

Chiara: Seven Deadly Thorns

Erika: One Dark Window

Camilla: Katabasis

PEGGIOR INIZIO DI SERIE

Chiara: Zodiac Academy - Origins of an Academic Bully

Erika: One Dark Window

Camilla: Beautiful Fien 

PEGGIOR CONTINUO DI SERIE

Chiara: Eldritch (The Eating Woods,#2)

Erika: ASAP (XOXO #2)

Camilla: Limitless 2

PEGGIOR CONCLUSIONE DI SERIE

Chiara: The Charlie Method (Campus Diaries, #3)

Erika: //

Camilla: Born of Blood and Ash

PREMIO MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: DOVEVA ESSERE LA BIG REVELATION DELLA STORIA E INVECE E' STATO UN COLOSSALE BUCO NELL'ACQUA

Chiara: Seven Deadly Thorns

Erika: The Favorites (altro odio, ma mi aspettavo di più...)

Camilla: Immortal Consequences

PEGGIOR CLIFFHANGER FINALE

Chiara: Eldritch (The Eating Woods,#2)

Erika: //

Camilla: Our Infinite Fates

PREMIO "BEST" CRINGE

Chiara: Eldritch (The Eating Woods,#2)

Erika: One Dark Window

Camilla: Nightshade

PEGGIOR COVER

Chiara: To Cage a Wild Bird

Erika: Alchemy of Secrets

Camilla: //

PEGGIOR LIBRO AUTOCONCLUSIVO 

Chiara: Seven Deadly Thorns

Erika: //

Camilla: Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR DILOGIA 

Chiara:  //

Erika: //

Camilla: Il Trono del prigioniero

PEGGIOR TRILOGIA 

Chiara: //

Erika: //

Camilla: //

PEGGIOR SERIE

Chiara: //

Erika: //

Camilla: //

PEGGIOR RETELLING

Chiara:  //

Erika: // non leggo retelling da una vita...

Camilla: //

PEGGIOR EVOLUZIONE DI SERIE

Chiara: The Robin on the Oak Throne

Erika: ASAP (XOXO #2)

Camilla: The Charlie Method

SERIE/LIBRO DA DIMENTICARE

Chiara: The Eating Woods 

Erika: One Dark Window

Camilla: The Charlie Method

PREMIO EMILY: IL LIBRO CHE HAI ASPETTATO DI PIU' E CHE NON HA RIPAGATO LE TUE ASPETTATIVE

Chiara: The Charlie Method

Erika: The Favorites (here we go again, non necessariamente male ma non ha retto con le mie aspettative)

Camilla: Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR EROE 

Chiara: //

Erika: //

Camilla: Evelyn - Our Infinite Fates

PEGGIOR AMICO

Chiara: Gen e Ethan di The Robin on the Oak Throne

Erika: Penelope di Deep End

Camilla: Beckett di The Charlie Method

PEGGIOR COPPIA 

Chiara: Charlie&Beckett&Will di The Charlie Method

Erika: Kat e Heath di The Favorites (sento le urla della Cami, mi eclisso) (Cami: ho urlato)

Camilla: Caden e Billie di Beautiful Fiend

PEGGIOR FAMIGLIA

Chiara: Greg e Samatha Calloway da The Addicted series

Erika: //

Camilla: Una qualsiasi famiglia della BOT, lascio a voi la scelta. Questi genitori sono pessimi!

PEGGIOR GRUPPO

Chiara: i Letalisz in The Eating Woods series

Erika: //

Camilla: Immortal Consequences 

PERSONAGGIO PIU' ANTIPATICO

Chiara: Lorcan in The Robin on the Oak Throne

Erika: Dallas Kent di Heated Rivarly

Camilla: Callum di Born of Blood and Ash

MORTE INUTILE O NON ALL'ALTEZZA DELLE ASPETTATIVE (spoiler!)

Chiara: Ravezio in Eldritch (The Eating Woods,#2)

Erika: //

Camilla: //

Anche per quest'anno abbiamo un pareggio! Infatti i libri con più Razzie sono ben due... 

CON BEN 8 RAZZIE L'UNO

Queste sono le nostre votazione per il 2025. E voi, qual è il libro che vi ha convinto di meno quest'anno?

Per oggi è tutto! Ci vediamo domani con i BOOK AWARDS, cioè i libri preferiti dell'anno!

- Team Spill the Book

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[ARC Review] Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

Hello readers! 

How are you?

It's been a while I've written something for the English section of the blog, so I had to make amends and what better occasion than talking about one of my most anticipated 2023 books?! Less than two weeks from now the conclusion of this amazing duology will be released and I'm so excited to finally have it in my hands! That's why I'm honored that Little Brown Book group gave me the chance to read this book in advance (and thanks to Netgalley too of course) so I can present it to you.

Title: Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King,#2)
Author: Rachel Gilling
Publishing Date: 19 Oct 2023
Publisher:  Orbit (Little Brown Book group)
Pages: 368 (paperback)
Price: 17,09$ (*according to Amazon.com)

Plot: **Since it's a sequel, be aware there will be spoilers related to the previous book**

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's wrought - perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching.

Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders.

If they are going to find it before the Solstice and cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it, they will need to journey beyond the dangerous mist-cloaked forest that surrounds their kingdom.

And the only one who can lead them there is the monster that shares Elspeth's head. The Nightmare. And he's not eager to share any longer.

Review: 

5 stars! ⭐

To anyone who's every felt lost in a wood. There is a strange sort of findings in losing.

As I've already mentioned above, Two Twisted Crowns was one of my most expected books of 2023 after falling in love with One Dark Window last year, so I shuddered to read it after THAT final cliffhanger (because this author is a master at endings and breaking hearts).

I have to say that this novel was everything I needed from this series and even more. I missed the One Dark Window's characters SO much and, even if an year has passed, it was easy to come back to their stories, magistrally woven together by Rachel Gillig's poetic writing style. It was like entering in a dark, gothic story, where you can feel that cold sensation of danger surrounded by shadows that could hit you in every moment. I love think kind of atmosphere, when the story comes alive and you just live it with the characters (and deeply suffer with them, thank you for that too, Rachel).

 

Just when I think you're getting torelable, you go and open your mouth.

 

Anyway, this is not an easy book to face, but that was already clear with One Dark Window for the themes treated and the violence portraited, but I really appreciated the sensibility with which the author wrote certain scenes. It's sad to see how low people value human's life, especially if it isn't theirs, and Rachel Gillig showed it so well in her stories, where in the end everyone got what they deserved.

My heart broke multiple times for Elm and Ione, not to mention Elspeth and Ravyn who, together with the Nightmare, still hold my soul in their hands. What an unexpected and "funny" triangle they were! They drew me a smile multiple times. I really appreciated how the Shepherd King interacted with Ravyn and the others, along with his affection for Elspeth. 

That said, it's true that the main characters of the first book left a good amount of space to two "new ones", and even if I understand Rachel's choice, because it's useful to the story, I missed my Captain of the Destriers and the Girl with a monster inside her as primal protagonists and also together! 😢 They have one of the most beautiful relationship I've ever read. But, I repeat myself, it's an understandlable decision and it makes sense once you arrive at the end, because multiple knots had to be unraveled, and the readers already know Elspeth and Ravyn's love is truth. They didn't have to prove it more than they already did, they just had to stay alive so they could be reunited.

 

Clever man died on their own terms. And if they were wary, clever, and good, they perhaps died in piece. He, apparently, was none of the three.

However, it was impossible not to be dragged in that grim and dark atmosphere that accompanies the quest for the search of The Twins Alders card and the resistance of who stays "behind", dotted with entertaining moments and lovely ones that made me smile. They created a good rhythm with revelations and bigger events, that I personally found irresistible.
Praise also to the fact that finally there is a book with a proper ending, that gives the ultimate confrontation with the villain its space to unravel. I couldn't ask for more and I think this has just become one of my favorite duologies ever. Now, the problem is: how can I image not to read about those characters anymore? (so if Rachel will gave us in the future some extra scenes I will love her until the end of times).

 

I hope you enjoyed this review and please, read this duology!
I can't wait to read what you think about it.

To the next review!
Chiara

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