Nabila

• Her Private Life: I relate with this drama a lot as a fangirl & the couple was super cute!
• The Society: What happens when a whole town is left to be run by a group of teenagers?
• The Light in Your Eyes: Nam Joo Hyuk! The concept was interesting and dang, that ending hurts me.
• Romance is a Bonus Book: A very mellow drama! It made me appreciate book publishing houses and love books even more.
• Stranger Things Season 3: I can't believe the kids grew up so much! I'm still sad about you-know-who's death.
• The Umbrella Academy Season 1: It was slow but their superpowers are really cool! Low-key blamed Luther for everything.
• How I Met Your Mother Season 1-9: I loved it! The character development was super great, especially Barney's! I spent every morning watching this show while having my breakfast, I finished this quicker than Friends. Definitely will watch some of my favourite episodes in the future.
• Angel's Last Mission Love: I liked this drama but they fell in love too fast and I hate insta-love trope! Their love story was still super cute, though.

Other movies I watched and liked include:

• Someone Great (one of my favourite movies now)
• Crazy Rich Asians
• The Happening
• Annabelle Comes Home
• The Visit
• My Neighbour Totoro

And am currently watching 2 TV shows:

I listened to:

A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial―like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.

Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.

But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meagre clues to find him.

When West McCray―a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America―overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.

I was super late into this book but I made it, almost a year after this book was published (happy almost book birthday!). I read this book through an audiobook and it was a really amazing experience but more on that later. This book is, without doubt, the best young adult mystery book I had ever read. I know I said the same when I read The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas last year but compared to that book, Sadie is twice amazing.

I would not say that reading Sadie was fun nor was it an easy read but the story was so dark, intense and impactful and will haunt you ages after reading it. It shows a part of darkness in the world we're living in and is very unforgettable.

Sadie was the perfect lead character for this book. She was not a perfect person but all her flaws are the reasons that she is a perfectly-written character. She is one of the most layered characters I had ever read; all the intense feelings she felt and all of the things she did made her seem very real and human. And although some of the things she did were morally questionable, I could understand why she did all those things. She's also a character with a stutter, which is a  representation that I rarely see in the books I had read. And since I read this book by listening to the audiobook, it was much easier for me to see Sadie and understand the frustration and anger she felt. I was frustrated for her when she had something so important to say but people made fun of her and didn't take her seriously just because she stuttered. But what really amazed me was the fact that even with her stutter, whenever she finished her sentence, it was not just relief that I felt but also how every word that came out from her mouth was powerful. Sadie felt so intensely and man, the audiobook really managed to portray her intenseness, I could feel it in the actress's voice.

In this book, Sadie pointed again and again that her story wasn't a love story but I think it is. Everything that Sadie did in this book was out of her love for Mattie and you can see her love even from other characters' perspectives. She was so angry and bitter in this book and she had every right to be. My heart broke again and again for Sadie and Mattie because I could see how much love is in this book and I wanted both of them to be okay and happy but I knew it wouldn't happen.

On the audiobook:

This was my first audiobook and although my experience of listening to audiobooks isn't much yet, I personally think this will be the best audiobook I'll ever listen to. The format was so cool and the production value is off the scales, I kid you not. The chapters of this book were divided into two: Sadie's point of view and a podcast by West McCray. Each character had a different voice actor and all the voice actors portrayed their characters perfectly. There were also ambient noises in almost every scene (sounds of the radio, a door creaking, birds chirping etc.) which made experiencing this story much more impactful.

Everywhere I go on the internet, people had been talking again and again about how good the audiobook for this book is and before I listened to this, I was like "yeah, that's cool" but now that I had listened to more than one audiobook, I really appreciate the production of this audiobook. I highly recommend you to read this book in an audio format if you're interested. You can register for Audible today and listen to the audiobook for this for free for the first month (yes, I registered for Audible just to listen to this book). It will be worth it!