Random Book Love

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Disruption, In The Skin of a Monster, Jessica Shirvington, Kathryn Barker, Kylie Fornasier, Masquerade, Rachael Craw, Spark

So…I got bored, and so decided to share some my love of some books.

Also, Christmas is coming, so if you were thinking about what to ask for, or what to get other people, I would highly recommend these.

[Clicking on the picture will take you to goodreads]

In The Skin of a Monster, by Kathryn Barker

Guys.

This. Book.

Weird dreamscapes, traumatised people, amazingly realistic characters…guys, seriously, this book is amazing.

 

Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier

 ASDFGHJKL

18th century Venice, pretty dresses, Carnevale, Shakespeare references…

What more could you possibly want?

 

Disruption, by Jessica Shirvington

Whoa, ok, guys…like…whoa.

I was not prepared for the awesomeness of this book.

Rebelling against a dystopian society by manipulating a whole range of people in order to find your dad…

HELL YES!!!

Spark, by Rachael Craw

It is no secret that I absolutely love this book.

Friendships, romance, mystery, attempted murder, genetic engineering…GUYS!!

GUUUUYYYYYSSSSSS!!!!

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Have you read these books? What did you think?

TTT: Debut Authors Who Have Me Looking Forward To Their Sophomore Novel

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All Our Yesterdays, Amy Zhang, An Ember in the Ashes, Cristin Terrill, Falling into Place, Fleur Ferris, In The Skin of a Monster, Kathryn Barker, Kylie Fornasier, Lauren James, Leslye Walton, Magonia, Maria Dahvana Headley, Masquerade, Risk, Sabaa Tahir, Stephanie Oakes, The Next Together, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Top Ten Tuesday is a thing where we get given a topic, and we have to list our ‘top ten’ things for the topic. Pretty self-explanatory.
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Debut Authors Who Have Me Looking Forward To Their Sophomore Novel

1. Kathryn Barker
Because I loved In the Skin of a Monster

 2. Fleur Ferris
Because Risk was fantastic

3. Maria Dahvana Headley
Because Magonia was wonderful

4. Lauren James
Because The Next Together was brilliant

5. Stephanie Oakes
Because The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly was beautifully creepy

6. Kylie Fornasier
Because I adored Masquerade

7. Cristin Terrill
Because All Our Yesterdays broke me

8. Amy Zhang
Because Falling Into Place destroyed me

9. Sabaa Tahir
Because An Ember in the Ashes was brutal

10. Leslye Walton
Because The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender was both strange and beautiful

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 So, that’s my list. Who would make yours?

TTT: Books I’d Love to see as movies

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Alexandra Bracken, Cynthia Hand, Half Bad, Kasie West, Kylie Fornasier, Legend, Maggie Stiefvater, Marie Lu, Masquerade, Pivot Point, Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle, Sally Green, Sarah J. Maas, The Darkest Minds, The Raven Boys, Throne of Glass, Top Ten Tuesday, Under the Never Sky, Unearthly, Veronica Rossi

Top Ten Tuesday is a thing where we get given a topic, and we have to list our ‘top ten’ things for the topic. Pretty self-explanatory.
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Books I’d love to see as movies

1. Rebel Belle, by Rachel Hawkins
When they said ‘Legally Blonde meets Terminator’, they weren’t kidding. Honestly, the whole time I was reading this, I was thinking ‘how good would this be as a movie?’.

2. Pivot Point, by Kasie West

3. The Darkest Minds, by Alexandra Bracken

4. Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier
Just for the costumes alone I would want this movie.

5. Half Bad, by Sally Green

6. Unearthly, by Cynthia Hand

7. Legend, by Marie Lu

8. Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas
Umm…because…Throne of Glass…duh.

9. Under the Never Sky, by Veronica Rossi

10. The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater
Ok, I was a little hesitant adding this to the list, because it is just so amazing, but I think that if it was done well, it could be just as amazing as a movie.

TTT: Books I want to read with my non-existent book club

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All Our Yesterdays, Amy Zhang, Cristin Terrill, Divergent, Falling into Place, Half Bad, Kasie West, Kylie Fornasier, Lauren Oliver, Maggie Stiefvater, Markus Zusak, Masquerade, Neal Shusterman, Panic, Pivot Point, Sally Green, The Book Thief, The Raven Boys, Top Ten Tuesday, Unwind, Veronica Roth

Top Ten Tuesday is a thing where we get given a topic, and we have to list our ‘top ten’ things for the topic. Pretty self-explanatory.
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This Week’s Topic: Ten Books I’d Love to Read with my Book Club if I had a Book Club

1. Falling into Place, by Amy Zhang

2. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

3. The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater

4. Panic, by Lauren Oliver

5. Divergent, by Veronica Roth

6. All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill

7. Half Bad, by Sally Green

8. Pivot Point, by Kasie West

9. Masquerade, by Kyle Fornasier

10. Unwind, by Neal Shusterman

This Week’s Adventures

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Amy Zhang, Falling into Place, Kylie Fornasier, Masquerade, Nick Lake, Richelle Mead, The Ruby Circle, There Will Be Lies

Usually this would be a thing about the things that happened since last Saturday. However, because this is the new year, I’m going back a little further.
I’m sure you can all cope 🙂

Books Released:

On the Internet

If you pre-order The Ruby Circle at Dymocks, you get a free copy of Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier!!

Guys, you totally want to do this, Masquerade is an awesome book, which means that not only do you get a phone call when Ruby Circle comes out (who wouldn’t want that?) but you also get a TOTALLY AMAZING BOOK FOR FREE HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT THAT???

And if you still have doubts, here’s my review of Masquerade.

 

Also, RUBY CIRCLE BOOK TRAILER!!!!

 

On Other People’s Blogs

Laura Plus Books kicked off the new year with a New Blog Design (go see it, it’s pretty)
Cait at Paper Fury talked about 22 Things she wants to do before she turns 22
Emily at Loony Teen Writer posted January Loony Blurbs (my version coming soon)
Maddie at The Girly Geek created a Bookish Bingo Challenge (which I am totally doing)
Stacie and Amanda welcomed the world to Beautiful Bookish Butterflies (which is awesome, btw)
Kat at (Almost) Completely Mad talked about 5 Ways to Make Time to Reply to Comments (which is totally helpful)

On This Blog

On Monday I reviewed There Will Be Lies
On Tuesday I FINALLY completed The Gif Tag
On Wednesday I reviewed Falling into Place
On Thursday I talked about Why I Don’t Finish Books
On Friday I complained that The Book Thief Ruined my Life

Oh, look, I posted every day this week!

Stacking the Shelves: The Yearly Edition

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A Discovery of Witches, A Thousand Pieces of You, Aimee Carter, Alexandra Bracken, Amy Ewing, Amy Zhang, Anna Dressed in Blood, Are You Seeing Me?, Beautiful Darkness, Blood Of Olympus, Blood Promise, Bloodlines, Blue Lily Lily Blue, Boundless, Bram Stoker, Brigid Kemmerer, Captive, Cara Lynn Shultz, Claudia Gray, Corruption, Crown of Midnight, Cynthia Hand, Dangerous Creatures, Darren Groth, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight, Deborah Harkness, Debra Driza, Demonglass, Disruption, Dracula, E. Lockhart, Endless Knight, Endlessly, Evernight, Falling into Place, Four: A Divergent Collection, Frostbite, Gayle Forman, Half Bad, Hallowed, Heir of Fire, I Was Here, Into the Still Blue, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Jessica Shirvington, Josephine Angelini, Julie Kagawa, Kami Garcia, Kasie West, Kendare Blake, Kiera Cass, Kiersten White, Kresley Cole, Kylie Fornasier, Laini Taylor, Last Sacrifice, Legend, Leigh Bardugo, Let the Sky Fall, Let the Storm Break, Maggie Stiefvater, Margaret Stohl, Marie Lu, Masquerade, Michelle Hodkin, Mind Games, Never Fade, Obsidian, Onyx, Opal, Opposition, Origin, Paranormalcy, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, Pittacus Lore, Pivot Point, Poison Princess, Rachael Craw, Rachel Hawkins, Raising Demons, Rebel Belle, Renegade, Revenge of Seven, Richelle Mead, Rick Riordan, Rick Yancey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sacrifice, Sally Green, Sarah J. Maas, School Spirits, Secret, Shadow and Bone, Shadow Kiss, Shannon Messenger, Silver Shadows, Sinner, Sister Assassin, Spark, Spell Bound, Spirit Bound, Split Second, Stacking the Shelves, Supernaturally, Talon, The 5th Wave, The Assassin's Blade, The Dark World, The Darkest Minds, The Eternity Cure, The Fiery Heart, The Forever Song, The Goddess Test, The Golden Lily, The Immortal Rules, The Indigo Spell, The Infinite Sea, The Jewel, The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy, The One, The Retribution of Mara Dyer, The Selection Stories, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Young Elites, Throne of Glass, Through the Ever Night, Trial by Fire, Under the Never Sky, Uneartly, Vampire Academy, Veronica Rossi, Veronica Roth, We Were Liars

Stacking the Shelves is a thing where we talk about the books we’ve collected in the past week. These can be bought, delivered, ARCs, ebooks, etc.. Pretty self-explanatory.
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tygna’s Reviews

This week, in honour of the new year, I’m doing things a little differently.

I’m doing a post on ALL the books I bought this year!

It’s going to be epic.

Also, please note, I have actually been working on this post since October. This thing has taken me 3 MONTHS to create.

Enjoy.

Books Bought:

And here’s what you’re seeing in the picture

Whole series bought:
Unearthly Trilogy, by Cynthia Hand
Obsidian Series, by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Blood of Eden Trilogy, by Julie Kagawa
Pivot Point Duology, by Kasie West
Under the Never Sky Trilogy, by Veronica Rossi
Vampire Academy Series, by Richelle Mead (incl. Movie companion & Ultimate Guide)
Paranormalcy Trilogy*, by Kiersten White
Sister Assassin Duology, by Kiersten White
Disruption Duology, by Jessica Shirvington

Whole series currently available bought:
Bloodlines, by Richelle Mead
The Arcana Chronicles, by Kresley Cole
Let the Sky Fall, by Shannon Messenger
The 5th Wave, by Rick Yancey
Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas

Other:
Secret/Sacrifice, by Brigid Kemmerer
The Selection Stories/The One, by Kiera Cass
The Goddess Test/Captive, by Aimee Carter
Raising Demons/Spell Bound/School Spirits, by Rachel Hawkins
The Dark World, by Cara Lynn Shultz
Four: A Divergent Collection, by Veronica Roth
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sinner, by Maggie Stiefvater
Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods/Blood of Olympus, by Rick Riordan
Renegade, by Debra Driza
Legend, by Marie Lu
Dangerous Creatures*/Beautiful Darkness, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Talon, by Julie Kagawa
Revenge of Seven/Hidden Enemy, by Pittacus Lore

*Not pictures because I forgot that I bought them this year and I didn’t remember until after I put all the books back

Special Mentions (ordered, not received):
Rebel Belle, by Rachel Hawkins
The Retribution of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin

Books Won:

Now, I didn’t have to pay for all my books last year…rafflecopter was kind enough to allow me to win several books, plus bookish events enabled book winning.

Won from blogs:
Are You Seeing Me?, by Darren Groth (Thank you Notebook Sisters!)
Falling into Place, by Amy Zhang (Thank you Book Nerd Reviews!)
Blue Lily, Lily Blue, by Maggie Stiefvater (Thank you Miss Page Turner’s City of Books)
The Jewel*, by Amy Ewing (Thank you Genie in a book!)
Spark*, by Rachel Craw (Thank you again, Notebook Sisters!!)

*Not received yet

Won at events:
A Thousand Pieces of You, by Claudia Gray (BTCYA)
The Mortal Instruments series, by Cassandra Clare (CoHF Book Launch) (I gave these to my sister…she loves me)

Miscellaneous:

Presents (Birthdays, Christmas, etc.):
We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart
The Young Elites, by Marie Lu
Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
The Darkest Minds/Never Fade, by Alexandra Bracken
Trial By Fire, by Josephine Angelini
Days of Blood and Starlight, by Laini Taylor
Dracula and Other Horror Stories, by Bram Stoker

Books I got for free (through various means):
Evernight, by Claudia Gray
A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness
Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor
Half Bad, by Sally Green
I Was Here, by Gayle Forman (ARC)

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So…that was all the books I got my hands on 2014.

How was every one else’s year?

The Bookshelf Tag

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A Thousand Pieces of You, Amy Zhang, Claudia Gray, Cornelia Funke, Corruption, Disruption, Falling into Place, Gillian Rubenstein, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Inkheart, Inkspell, J.K. Rowling, Jessica Shirvington, Kylie Fornasier, Let the Storm Break, Masquerade, Shannon Messenger, Space Demons, Suzanne Collins

Continuing with the many tags I’ve been tagged to do, quite some time ago I was tagged by Fangirling Misses to do the bookshelf tag.

Here we go.

Is there a book you really want to read but haven’t because you know that it’ll make you cry?

Yes, Falling into Place, by Amy Zhang.

I haven’t yet, because I know I’m going to need time to get over it, but it’s sitting on my shelf.

 

Pick one book that helped introduce you to a new genre.

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins introduced me to Dystopian.

Find a book that you want to re-read.

ALL OF THEM!!

But seriously, though. I reread as many books as I can anyway, so this question is kind-of irrelevant.

(I’m not going to give a picture here)

Is there a series you read but wish you hadn’t?

No…I don’t think I’ve ever regretted reading a book/series.

If your house was burning down and all your family and pets were safe, which book would you go back inside to save?

Can I say all of them?

I mean it… I love them all.

Is there a book on your shelf that brings back fond memories?

Harry Potter. Always.

See what I did there?

Find a book that inspired you the most?

Hmm…I always find these questions hard, because I don’t often get inspired by books…

Do you have any autographed books?

When I first got tagged to do this, I had one.
Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier.

Now, I have more 🙂

Disruption/Corruption, by Jessica Shirvington

Let the Storm Break, by Shannon Messenger

A Thousand Pieces of You, by Claudia Gray

Find the book you have owned the longest.

Harry Potter, although it isn’t technically mine, it is the oldest book on these shelves.

Otherwise, it’s probably Inkspell, which I got before I got the first book in that series, Inkheart. But I don’t actually know.

I figured they both deserved a picture.

Is there a book by an author that you never imagined you would read or enjoy?

Space Demons, by Gillian Rubenstein

It’s not that I thought I wouldn’t enjoy the author, I just did not expect to enjoy a book titled ‘Space Demons.

Now, I know better.

 

And to end this tag, I have to post a photo of my bookshelf!

[If no picture is present, please assume that I have simply forgotten to take/upload one. If you are desperate to see a picture of my bookshelf, one is bound to appear on my twitter or instagram sooner or later]

Top Ten Tuesday

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172 Hours on the Moon, Bookish locations, Everneath, Harry Potter, Masquerade, Percy Jackson, The Forsaken, The Iron Fey, Throne of Glass, Top Ten Tuesday, Vampire Academy, Wonderland

Top Ten Tuesday is a thing where we get given a topic, and we have to list our ‘top ten’ things for the topic. Pretty self-explanatory.
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit
I’m splitting this into two this week: places I want to go, and places I don’t want to go

5 Places Books Have Made Me Want to Visit

1. Hogwarts
As seen in Harry Potter. I mean, come on, who doesn’t want to go there?

2. New York
There are so many books set in New York, and I’ve never been there.
Honestly, it’s just a life goal of mine to ask the guy at the Empire State Building for a key to level 600.

3. Venice
As seen in Masquerade. I mean, come on. Who doesn’t want to go there?

4. Russia/Siberia
Just, the way it was described in the Vampire Academy series made me really want to go there.

5. Wonderland
I mean, some retellings make me really NOT want to go there, but other ones make me want to go…this ones more of an ‘on the fence’ type place.

5 Places Books have made me want to stay far away from

6. Adarlan
From the Throne of Glass series. Seriously, with a king like that, I’m never going there.

7. The Never Never
From the Iron Fey series. I mean, on the one hand it sounds interesting, but some of the things that happen there…

8. The Moon
So, in the book 172 Hours on the Moon, there’s this thing which goes around killing people…So, yeah, I’m never going there.

9. The Everneath
From the book Everneath…considering the reason people go there is to have their souls taken away…

10. The Wheel
In the book The Forsaken, when the government doesn’t like people they send them to The Wheel, where the average life expectancy is 2 years.

So…books haven’t yet made me want to stay away from any real places (except the moon, but let’s face it, I’m never going there anyway…), which I suppose is a good thing…

Top Ten Tuesday

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All Our Yesterdays, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Brigid Kemmerer, Cara Lynn Shultz, Crash, Cristin Terrill, Elementals, Half Bad, Kady Cross, Kylie Fornasier, Let the Sky Fall, Lisa McMann, Masquerade, R. J. Anderson, Sally Green, Shannon Messenger, Spellbound, The Girl in the Steel Corset, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Top Ten Tuesday, Ultraviolet, Underrated YA

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Underrated books/series in YA

So, basically I interpreted this as ‘books/series that are not as popular as they should be’.

1. All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill

2. Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson

3. Elementals (series), by Brigid Kemmerer

4. Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier

5. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, by Ambelin Kwaymullina

6. Let the Sky Fall, Shannon Messenger

7. Crash, by Lisa McMann

8. Spellbound, by Cara Lynn Shultz

9. Half Bad, by Sally Green

10. The Girl in the Steel Corset, by Kady Cross

Now, this one was hard, because I find it hard to tell what’s popular, and what’s not. So, basically, my rule was to look at the number of ratings on Goodreads. If it had under 20000 ratings, it made the list.
Interesting note: some series had a high number of ratings for the first book, but books 2 and 3 often had significantly lower numbers.

Top Ten Tuesday

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All Our Yesterdays, Cristin Terrill, Divergent, Hex Hall, Julie Kagawa, Kasie West, Kiera Cass, Kylie Fornasier, Legend, Marie Lu, Masquerade, Michelle Hodkin, Neal Shusterman, Pivot Point, Rachel Hawkins, Richelle Mead, The Immortal Rules, The Selection, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Top Ten Tuesday, Unwind, Vampire Academy, Veronica Roth, YA Books

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Books I would give to people who have never read YA

(These are not in any particular order)

1. Divergent, by Veronica Roth

2. Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead

3. Legend, by Marie Lu

4. Pivot Point, by Kasie West

5. The Selection, by Kiera Cass

6. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin

7. Unwind, by Neal Shusterman

8. The Immortal Rules, by Julie Kagawa

9. All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill

10. Hex Hall, by Rachel Hawkins

And because since writing this list another book has come out, and I couldn’t decide which book to replace with it, I’m adding this book on the end as a bonus:

11. Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier