Bookplace2.be

Yana read at a punishing pace, but their reviews, reading tips and favourite genres were scattered across Instagram stories, WhatsApp groups and loose notes. Anyone looking for a book that truly matched their taste had to figure out for themselves who had read what and where. There was no central place to look up a book, filter by genre or simply see what the two of them had read recently, let alone an archive that stayed useful over time.

We built a book blog around its own content model: alongside regular blog posts, every book got its own book type with an author, a genre and a review linked to Yana as reviewer. That lets a visitor filter straight away by genre, from cosy fantasy to psychological thriller, or click through to every book by the same author.

Each review got a star rating from one to five, a short intro and the full write-up, with a search bar at the top to find a title quickly. The site is built around a recognisable purple house style, a fixed sidebar to Books, Blog and Reviewers, and a newsletter widget so readers get notified of a new review. Behind the scenes, SEO gives every book, author and genre page its own findable sitemap entry.

More than five years after launch the count stands at over 320 reviews, spread across 23 genres and almost two hundred authors, and Yana and still add new write-ups regularly. Instead of scattered posts they now have one archive that keeps growing, for visitors to discover at their own pace.