All Books Considered

2016 End of Year Book Survey: (hosted by Jamie @ The Perpetual Pageturner ) Number of books I read:  232. Number of re-reads:  29. Genre I read the most from: Contemporary adult. Best Book I read in 2016?  See my lists  HERE  (YA) and HERE  (Adult)  and   HERE  (Debuts) tl; dr:   Dear Fang, With Love The Raven King Every Exquisite Thing   The Underground Railroad Book you were excited and thought you were gonna love more but didn’t? Eligible :(  I love CS and Jane Austen but this was not a good fit Most surprising (in a good or bad way) book you read in 2016? Undecided and The Hating Game - I was leery to read both and they ended up to be some of my favorites of the year! Book you pushed people to read? Undecided   and   Every Exquisite Thing Best series you started in 2016? Best Sequel of 2016? Best Series Ender of 2016? Best series I started this year: IQ ...

1.   The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4)  by Maggie Stiefvater Everything I ever wanted in this series ender. I know I will re-read this series every year. 2.  Every Exquisite Thing  by Matthew Quick Honestly, I had a hard deciding between this and TRK as my favorite book of the year. This was so magnificent and beautiful. My review HERE . 3.  Salt to the Sea  by Ruta Sepetys Heartbreaking and haunting; a new classic. 4.   The Smell of Other People's Houses   by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock This book was so beautiful and so unexpected.  My review HERE . 5.   The Unexpected Everything  by Morgan Matson Clark definitely gets TOP book boyfriend marks for 2016. Loved this! My review HERE . 6.   In Real Life  by Jessica Love This felt exactly like high school to me.  My review  HERE . 7.   You Know...

Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel Blurb from Goodreads : Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in centuries-buried rock and sand, lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur, larger than anything the late nineteenth-century world has ever seen. Some legends call it the Black Beauty, with its bones as black as ebony, but to seventeen-year-old Samuel Bolt, it’s the “rex,” the king dinosaur that could put him and his struggling, temperamental archaeologist father in the history books (and conveniently make his father forget he’s been kicked out of school), if they can just quarry it out. But Samuel and his father aren’t the only ones after the rex. For Rachel Cartland this find could be her ticket to a different life, one where her loves of science and adventure aren’t just relegated to books and sitting rooms. And if she can’t prove herself on this expedition with her professor father, the only adventures...

Monday Musts is a weekly event, started and hosted by Jessica @ Lovin' Los Libros , which asks you to highlight your must read, must listen and must see! MUST READ! 53 Letters for My Lover  by Leylah Attar From Goodreads : This is not your typical love story.  It’s not so black and white. Lines are crossed.  Walls are smashed. Good becomes bad.  Bad becomes very, very good. Shayda Hijazi—the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect daughter. For thirty-three years, she has played by the rules, swallowing secrets, burying dreams and doing whatever it takes to anchor her family. Shayda Hijazi is about to come face to face with the one thing that can rip it all apart, the one thing her heart has always been denied: Love. Troy Heathgate—untamed, exhilarating, dangerous—a man who does exactly as he pleases. Life bends to his will. Until he comes across the one thing he would give it all up for, but can never have. Born on the same ...

Number of Books Read I read ( not  including my record FIVE DNFs which took up time so I am pretty pleased with my total) 19 books in June -- The Scorpio Races was a re-read, actually my first time listening to it on audio, which was amazing so I'm not counting that as my highest or favorite read of the month even though you know it is 5+++++++++ STARS!!   edit Highest rating Another 4.5 Star read!! Lowest rating Five (5) DNFs!  Crazy town! Best read of the month Book which surprised me the most I thought I would love this one :( Fictional crush of the month Th...