A book I love to read again and again.

For my husbands birthday this year we're staying in a Hobbit House, so obviously it was the perfect time to reread The Hobbit and pretend I'm in the Shire. Highly recommend the audio naraated by Andy Serkis. Listening at night to Gollum challenge Bilbo to a game of riddles gave me chills.

Original review: It's been 20 years since I last read The Hobbit, And I enjoyed it just as much on this reread. I think that's mainly down to Andy Serkis's new audio narration. Hearing Gollum in his distinct voice as he throws riddles at Bilbo was magical.

Maybe I'm biased. I know this has issues (where are all the women at Tolkien?!) and it skims over a lot of the action (what were you actually up to Gandalf?), but I do love a good adventure fantasy story with elves and dwarves. The Shire is one of my ultimate fantasy happy places.

★★★ /5

This was interesting and a little bit boring at the same time.
For a long time, I wanted to read this book, but sadly I didn’t enjoy as much as I thought I would.
This was definitely well written, but sometimes hard to follow. Where were a lot of characters and not all were necessary to the story, they didn’t add anything meaningful. In addition, where was a lot of buildup so the story dragged.
This was a fine book, I just expected more.