Favorite Books + Series (2015 EDITION)

So, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of books and series that I absolutely love to every core of my existence. And I haven't really done one of these kind of posts, I kinda of did last year but my thoughts on them weren't the most coherent and I want to combine both into one post. Without further ado, let's start this.

Fairest by Mairssa Meyer (review)

Series: The Lunar Chronicles 0.5
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Book Length: 220 pages
Publication Date: January 27th, 2015
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Format: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?

Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told . . . until now.

Marissa Meyer spins yet another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death. This extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from Winter, the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.
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In Time by Alexandra Bracken (Mini-review)

Series: The Darkest Minds #1.5
Genre: Dystopian,  paranormal
Book Length: 89 pages
Publication Date: July 16th, 2013
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide
Format: Ebook

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Synopsis:

Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer. This already almost impossible task is made all the more difficult by his first score, a young girl who won't speak, but who changes his life in ways he could never imagine.
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Half Bad by Sally Green (Review)

 

Series: Half Bad #1
Genre: Fantasy, paranormal
Book Length: 394 pages
Publication Date: March 4th, 2014
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

 Wanted by no one.
Hunted by everyone.

Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world's most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan's only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers—before it's too late. But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves?

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100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith (Review)

 Series: Standalone
Genre: Contemporary
Book Length: 277 pages
Publication Date: September 16th, 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

Finn Easton sees the world through miles instead of minutes. It’s how he makes sense of the world, and how he tries to convince himself that he’s a real boy and not just a character in his father’s bestselling cult-classic book. Finn has two things going for him: his best friend, the possibly-insane-but-definitely-excellent Cade Hernandez, and Julia Bishop, the first girl he’s ever loved.

Then Julia moves away, and Finn is heartbroken. Feeling restless and trapped in the book, Finn embarks on a road trip with Cade to visit their college of choice in Oklahoma. When an unexpected accident happens and the boys become unlikely heroes, they take an eye-opening detour away from everything they thought they had planned—and learn how to write their own destiny.
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I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Review)

Series: Standalone
Genre: Contemporary
Book Length: 371 pages
Publication Date: September 16th, 2014
Publisher: Dial
Format: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

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Top 14 books of 2014

Wow, another year has come and gone. I am excited for this next year where many things will happen and I will read so many books, some I will hate and most I will at least like. But today, we are talking about my top 14 books of 2014.
Because some of these books are going to be hard for me to place in my order of absolute favorites, I'm just going to list my favorites through the year in the order which I read them in. I do have a disclaimer that there is still some time left in the year and I may end up finishing another book or two before it ends, so it might change.