So we've finally got there- the illusive 2014 wrap up is finally here.
Over the course of the year I've read 39 books (41 if you include the two I read in school for English) just 11 short of my reading goal for the year which actually I'm pretty proud of!
Here's the list of books I read
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Cross My Heart And Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter
Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter
United We Spy by Ally Carter
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Frostbite by Richelle Mead
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Paper Towns by John Green
Holes by Louis Sachar*
Billy Elliot by Lee Hall and Melvin Burgess*
*Read in English at school
The first 10 are only in rough order since I didn't actively record when I read stuff back then
Wow that took a good 15 mins to type up!
So most of my year has been dominated by a few key authors- Cassandra Clare and Rick Riordan who wrote The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices (series) and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus (series). All of these series have quickly become some of my favourites of all time.
I ended also being pretty dominated by fantasy/paranormal books this year and I also read a fair few contemporaries (more than I usually do) with a few dystopians thrown in there for good measure.
Best Book Awards:
Rules:
-Each book can only be mentioned once
-All books mentioned must have been read in 2014
(A/N: I actually wrote most of the comments for these out of order because I couldn't decide which books to choose and was running out of time so some of them might be a little repetitive sorry! It's currently 23:47 as I write this!!)
Best Series Opener: This has to go to Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. I absolutely adored this book and loved all the characters especially Rose to pieces. She was so brilliantly snarky, smart and bad ass- just a brilliant female kick butt protagonist. I fell in love with the world and the story and just everything about it that I bought the entire series before even finishing the second book which obviously means it's made it onto my all time favourites for sure
Best Series Instalment: I really can't decide and I'm running out of time!
Best Series Finale: City of Heavenly Fire- So close to quite a few others ( so I have given them their own award) but this is the one that I have really been looking forward to and craving for such a long time. It was so funny, charming, interesting, sad and emotional all rolled into one. I do
Best Fantasy: Spirit Bound Again a ridiculously hard decision to make but this book was so much fun blended with enough action and suspense to make it brilliant. Loved all the couple-y moments and read this within just a day or two
Best Contemporary: Fangirl. Such an amazing and cute read. I really love stories with lots of growth and character development and this has to be up there with one of the best. Just the right balance of cuteness and deep stuff. I've come back to this one a couple of times since reading it to read m favourite parts when I'm feeling down. This has to be one of the best reads this year and has made it onto my favourites shelf.
Best Middle Grade: The Mark of Athena/The House of Hades. I've allowed myself to ut two here just because they're from the same series, too close and I'm running out of time to get this up before New Year's! Again this was a really difficult decision but I loved all the Percabeth moments in this as well as all the character arcs in this so much plus I sped through both of these within just a few days.
Best Book Overall: Clockwork Princess- This was such a difficult decision to make as I can never quite list favourites as they tend to change all the time. This was very narrow but it just pipped City of Heavenly Fire and the others to the post but I have mentioned them elsewhere. I was so emotional reading this book because I just love all the characters to pieces and found the plot so interesting to read.Once again I can barely put into words how much this book means to me and
Worst Book: The Perks of Being a Wallflower or Looking For Alaska. I really hate or even talking about books I don't like but these...I know there are loads of people to LOVE both of these book and I don't mean to offend those of you who do. For both of these I wasn't expecting them to be the way they were and they just weren't quite my cup of tea.
Most Anticipated Book: Lady Midnight- one of the easiest decisions of all these awards. I actually hardly know what's coming out in 2015 book-wise to be perfectly honest but holy crap, I am SO excited for this I can't put it into words!
Best Book to Movie Adaptation: The Fault in Our Stars. This was a toss up between Mockingjay as well but I've given that some credit too (see below). This is was such a true-to-the-book movie adaptation and it was brilliant to see it play out on-screen.
Most Anticipated Book to Movie: Mockingjay Part 2 hands down. I barely know what else is coming out in 2015. Okay I sort of do but this overshadows them all by far I actually can't
Yeah! I actually did it AND before 2015 (in the UK with 5 mins to spare)!
Hope you enjoyed!
See you next year,
Amber xxx
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