Top 10 of the Best Book Couples for 2016


Hello everyone and Happy Holidays! As a part of Fikishun's celebration for the final week of 2016 here's my list of the Top Ten books I've read on 2016 in no particular order. The event is hosted by Rachel of Fiktshun Jaime of Two Chicks on Books,  Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, and Bridget of Dark Faerie Tales



Today's feature is a list of the best couples I've read in my 2016 pile. Trying again not to repeat with titles from the previous posts (you have no idea how hard that is!), I have included books from both indie and traditional publishing. This one contains both Young Adult and New Adult titles. In no particular order here you go!


















Honorable mentions:








How about you? Which book couples are your favorite?










Top 10 of the Best Covers for 2016




Hello everyone and Happy Holidays! As a part of Fikishun's celebration for the final week of 2016 here's my list of the Top Ten books I've read on 2016 in no particular order. The event is hosted by Rachel of Fiktshun Jaime of Two Chicks on Books,  Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, and Bridget of Dark Faerie Tales



Today's feature is a list of the best covers I've seen for 2016. Though it was hard to pick, I decided to show books that weren't shown on yesterday's post. Here you go in no particular order.










   


 


        










What's your favorite book cover for 2016?

Top 10 of the Best Books I've read on 2016



Hello everyone and Happy Holidays! As a part of Fikishun's celebration for the final week of 2016 here's my list of the Top Ten books I've read on 2016 in no particular order. The event is hosted by Rachel of Fiktshun Jaime of Two Chicks on Books,  Mindy of Magical Urban Fantasy Reads, and Bridget of Dark Faerie Tales


10: My Lady Jane by Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand and Brodi Ashton. One of the best, funniest historical retellings I've ever read! You'll love the characters and even wish the true history to have been like that!



9: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. I never expected to become obsessed with a book like this one! Even after so many months I still listen to the audiobook!




8: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. This book destroyed me! I'm still not over the ending and even wish to have a spin-off series of this spin-off series!



7: Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova. This is the final book of the author's debut series which was the most emotional, action-packed book I've read! With many twists and cliffhangers, this series is unforgettable!




6: The Forgotten Tale by J.M. Frey. The second book of the Accidental Turn series was also one of the best books I've read! Told with wit and every part a book lover adores this adventure through stories and dragons is also one of the most recommended books!




5: A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab. The second book of the series was explosive and with the worst cliffhanger I've ever read! I need more Kel and Lilah in the final book!



4: The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski. This book! It made my heart clench in every page! I will never forget this amazing writing! And yes I prefer the original covers!



3: Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole. Yup, another book with the most shocking cliffhanger! I'm pretty sure there'll be a major plot twist in the next book, so you've been warned!



2: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon. Beautiful, diverse and sweet, this book was a true gem! I loved Everything, Everything but this book was also a masterpiece!




1: GEMINA by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This book was a madness! I really fear for the third book!





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Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy holidays everyone! I hope you'll all have an amazing time these holidays and enjoy the time you (may) have with your loved ones!






Feature & Follow #36 Favorite or most hated Villains!




THE FUTURE & FOLLOW IS HOSTED BY TWO HOSTS, PARAJUNKEE OF PARAJUNKEE'S VIEW AND ALISON OF ALISON CAN READ. EACH HOST WILL HAVE THEIR OWN FEATURE BLOG AND THIS WAY IT’LL ALLOW US TO SHOW OFF MORE NEW BLOGS.

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The goal is to increase blog followers, make friends and have something to post.
If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followersYou create your own post using the post prompt. You leave your link and thumbnail in the linky list that links back to your post prompt. Once you have your post up and linked, visit other posts and tell them hi. The point is to FOLLOW them not just comment. If you see a post that just hit it to the moon, or just want to show appreciation to a fellow blogger friend, like their name on the linky list to show some appreciation. The person with the most likes gets chosen as the next Feature (you can be chosen every 90 days unless we are in need of features) It is required that if you participate that you have to follow the FEATURE. It is a big no-no to participate and ignore the feature. They are the special snowflake in this little blizzard. As a participant it is up to your discretion on how you want people to follow. Please post RSS, GFC etc if you have a follow of choice.

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Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.

Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say “hi” in your comments and that they are now following you.

If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followedFollow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”

Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”


THE POST PROMPT:

Who are your favorite villains?


MY ANSWER:


I really have a looong list with villains I want to show. Some are from books other are from movies. Some are truly hated, others have become my favorites! In no particular order here are the top ten:

1Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. How can a woman be so calm when she tortures with those ink pens her students? I remember reading that scene with Harry for the first time and almost gagging from disgust.




2: Bellatrix Lestrange from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. She rivals Voldemort in cruelty, plus she is batshit crazy!




3: The King of Hybern from the Trone of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Yes, he is terrifying, especially after everything I read on ACOMAF. I really hope he'll find a horrible death!


4: Kaz Brekker from the Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo. Villain to the bone but scarred and in need for some serious hugs! (I'm looking at you Inej!) I totally loved him and the rest of the crew in Crooked Kingdom!
(Art belongs to Merwild)



5: The Darkling from the Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo. I knew that he wasn't what he showed to everyone and maybe the guy was a touch too vicious with everything but after the end of the series he has a special spot in my heart, since his backstory is actually really sad. Still, he may not be as classy in his wardrobe as Kaz, but he is one of the best villains!
(art belongs to PhantomRin)




6: Bolton from the Game of Thrones TV series. Let's just say I really enjoyed his death.



7: The Joker from the DC Universe. He is crazy and always finds a way to make Batman suffer. He has no super-powers, only the power of his mind. He is the scariest of them all.



8: Queen Levana from the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. With her Lunar gift and the whole Moon in her palm she was the worst of them all. Despite having read her backstory in Fairest, I still don't like her.


9: Gaston from Beauty and the Beast (Disney).
He threw Belle's book in the mud.
He put his BOOTS on an open book!
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10: The Viceroy from The Accidental Turn series by The guy can rival Bolton and after reading the sequel of the book I fear for everything!



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Audiobook review: "More Happy than Not" by Adam Silvera


More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary from GoodReads

Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera's extraordinary debut novel offers a unique confrontation of race, class and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx.

When it first gets announced, the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto—miracle cure-alls don't tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. Aaron can't forget how he's grown up poor, how his friends all seem to shrug him off, and how his father committed suicide in their one bedroom apartment. He has the support of his patient girlfriend, if not necessarily his distant brother and overworked mother, but it's not enough.  

Then Thomas shows up. He doesn't mind Aaron's obsession over the Scorpius Hawthorne books and has a sweet movie set-up on his roof. There are nicknames. Aaron's not only able to be himself, but happiness feels easy with Thomas. The love Aaron discovers may cost him what's left of his life, but since Aaron can't suddenly stop being gay Leteo may be the only way out.



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This book! What can I say about this book!? It made me laugh for the most part, but from a point onward I took a ride through Sobbing-land.

Aaron is a funny, easy-going guy with a caring girlfriend and kind-of-good friends. When he meets Thomas, after Aaron's girlfriend Gen leaves for three weeks, new feelings slowly bud within Aaron, but nothing is as it seems.
Despite dealing with his father's death and living in a world where you can have a procedure to forget painful memories, Aaaron tries to survive trough his family's emotional distress, his horrible (because all of them were jerks) friends as also his feelings for Thomas.

There was a major plot twist after a point which left me astonished and the reveals which happened after there were so, so sad, my heart ached for Aaron. Yes, his choices were selfish, but despite having a caring mother who supported him through everything, even her fell into wrong choices.

The ending gutted me; I can't even fathom living like Aaron, but he still became such a optimistic boy, which will always have a place in my bookish heart.






About the author:

Adam Silvera was born and raised in the Bronx. He has worked in the publishing industry as a children's bookseller, marketing assistant at a literary development company, and book reviewer of children's and young adult novels. His debut novel, More Happy Than Not, received multiple starred reviews and is a New York Times bestseller, and Adam was selected as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. He writes full-time in New York City and is tall for no reason.

Represented by Brooks Sherman of the Bent Agency.


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Blog Tour ARC Review+Giveaway: "The Alchemists of Loom" (The Loom Saga #1) by Elise Kova


The Alchemists of Loom
Elise Kova
(Loom Saga #1)
Publication date: January 10th 2017
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Her vengeance. His vision.
Ari lost everything she once loved when the Five Guilds’ resistance fell to the Dragon King. Now, she uses her unparalleled gift for clockwork machinery in tandem with notoriously unscrupulous morals to contribute to a thriving underground organ market. There isn’t a place on Loom that is secure from the engineer turned thief, and her magical talents are sold to the highest bidder as long as the job defies their Dragon oppressors.
Cvareh would do anything to see his sister usurp the Dragon King and sit on the throne. His family’s house has endured the shame of being the lowest rung in the Dragons’ society for far too long. The Alchemist Guild, down on Loom, may just hold the key to putting his kin in power, if Cvareh can get to them before the Dragon King’s assassins.
When Ari stumbles upon a wounded Cvareh, she sees an opportunity to slaughter an enemy and make a profit off his corpse. But the Dragon sees an opportunity to navigate Loom with the best person to get him where he wants to go.
He offers her the one thing Ari can’t refuse: A wish of her greatest desire, if she brings him to the Alchemists of Loom.



REVIEW

I received an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

Elise Kova has proved herself as a fantasy author who know how to make her readers love and cry over her characters. Her debut series "Air Awakens" could only be comapred to the Throne of Glass books at least for me.

The Alchemists of Loom is her new series which takes place in a world where the Dragons rule and everyone live in faction which work in order to produce everything the Dragons need. Ari lives as a thief but her encounter with Cvareh will make her change her life and embark in an adventure through all of Loom.

Told through four POVs, this book has Japanese elements as also pretty awesome steampunk details which make the world-building even more fascinating! Arin, Cvareh and Florence are amazing characters with flaws and wonderful dialogue and through their eyes we get a glimpse of how their world was and how it became after the Dragons conquered Loom.

There is also a hint of romance which is delivered masterfully, though I hope it'll be more developed in the sequel. If you like steampunk and fantasy then you really don't want to miss this book!



Author Bio:
Elise Kova has always had a profound love of fantastical worlds. Somehow, she managed to focus on the real world long enough to graduate with a Master’s in Business Administration before crawling back under her favorite writing blanket to conceptualize her next magic system. She currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and when she is not writing can be found playing video games, watching anime, or talking with readers on social media. She is the USA Today bestselling author of the Air Awakens Series as well as the upcoming Loom Saga (Keymaster, 2017).



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ARC Review: "Dragon's Treasure" (Dragons Awaken, #1) by Maya Starling


Dragon's Treasure by Maya Starling
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary from GoodReads

"She was the girl who longed for the freedom of the dragon, and he was the dragon who longed to be a man."


A heroine reclaiming her fate. A dragon with a secret. A prince on a quest.

Olivia flees to the forest seeking freedom from her family's demands. She finds refuge in a cave, only to discover it is a dragon’s lair. The dragon, Kaden, is not the monster she first thinks him to be. After overcoming her initial fright – of not being eaten – Olivia discovers that the dragon has a gentle heart.

Kaden is resigned to loneliness after centuries of wandering the lands. Meeting Olivia brings joy to his solitary life, and never has he dreamed that a young woman would be the one to start the change in him.

A storm brews on the horizon.

A prince with a handsome face and a cruel heart is on a quest to slay the dragon, and take the throne. He will do whatever it takes to have what he believes is his to own. And now, he has his eyes set on the pretty little maiden from the forest. He will make her his Queen, whether she wants it or not.




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I recieved an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was very excited when Maya Starling decided to publish her Wattpad novel! I've been a follower of the series since she first started updating the book and I was very pleased to see how the new, editted version would look like!

Olivia and Kaden are two of my favorite characters in this trope of "the prince saving the girl from the dragon". But everything is not as it seems for neither of them. Not to mention that Mgnus is a horrible human being. The story has also action but mostly it focuses on Kaden's and Olivia's relationship. The author did a great job on her characters' grownth, since the first draft and there was nothing that made me dislike the book.

I mean, it's a book with a dragon!

I'll be eagerly expecting how the second book will go, since I've already read it (a few years back) on Wattpad. Recommended if you like a good read about our scaly friends. ;)




About the author:


Maya Starling is a writer, a geek, an animal lover and a gamer. She has lived the life of a magus, an oracle, a goth mortician, a star wars rebel. She has led many lives, sitting at a table, and rolling those dice away.In reality, she lives with her wife and their adorable little boy, and of course two rescue cats, in a small country of Croatia. Reading and writing are her passion, so you will often find her typing away a new novel or a new short story, or eyes glued to the screen of her phone or a page of a book.