10 Books I Am Most Thankful For This Year

This week’s Top 10 Tuesday is Thanksgiving related and a freebie. So I thought it was a perfect time to showcase some of the my most loved books that I am thankful for this year. I am keeping it within books that i read this year. Because if I use all books, I am going to become repetitive and I am sure most of you can predict what books I’d use!

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Okay first up are 3 books that had me sobbing. More Happy than Not is such an emotional, dark book. I didn’t expect to be punched in the gut with this book, but it was fabulous. Adam Silvera is the author to look out for. His storytelling was captivating. As for It Ends with Us, oh my god guys heart ripped out and shredded to pieces. This book was too much agony. I couldn’t stop crying and I couldn’t get it out of my mind for at least two weeks. Morning Star was a great finale. Sobbing because it was over and beautifully written. Praise Pierce Brown ❤

    

Yes, the lovely Victoria Scwab gets featured twice because that’s how much I love her writing and her word building. ADSOM was my first read and I can’t wait to read more because she has some of the most wonderful characters! They are all my babies! Protect them at all costs! Yes, I can also include Harry Potter because I finally read it after all this time. It definitely lives up to the hype.

  

So many great worlds and characters! Plus, hello Rhysand ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Oh, and Magnus?! Yes please!

Last but not least,

Perfect ending to a perfect duology 😀

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What books are you thankful for?

until next time xxoo

WWW Wednesday #34 | September 21

You know the drill!

the w’s

What have you recently finished reading?

What are you currently reading?

What do you plan on reading next?

I absolutely loved this book! I was surprised by how much I loved it (well not really because it is Victoria Schwab). If you haven’t read this book yet, please do. Please do.

Check out my review here

RATING: 4/5 STARS

 

 

Synops:

The only way to grow up is to survive.

London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived the destruction and the outbreak of a deadly virus are children, among them sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling and her younger siblings, Joanna and Mikey. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the deadly Marauders—the German army led by the cutthroat Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer.

Unsure if the virus has spread past England’s borders but desperate to leave, Captain Hook is on the hunt for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the surviving children. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation. None ever return.

Until one day when they grab Joanna. Gwen will stop at nothing to get her sister back, but as she sets out, she crosses paths with a daredevil named Pete. Pete offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter Bella, who have all been living in a city hidden underground. But in a place where help has a steep price and every promise is bound by blood, it might cost Gwen more than she bargained for. And are Gwen, Pete, the Lost Boys, and Bella enough to outsmart the ruthless Captain Hook?

                                         

So remember when I said last week that I would read The Girl on the Train? Yeah, that’s not happening. I checked out some books from my library because I am just not feeling that book yet. I don’t know where my mood is…

What are you currently reading?
Have you read any of these books?

 

 

until next time,

 

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab | Book Review

 

 

Title: This Savage Song
Author: Victoria Schwab
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Release: June 7, 2016
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy, Paranormal
Series: Monsters of Verity #1
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 427

There’s no such thing as safe.

Kate Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she’s finally going home to prove that she can be.

August Flynn wants to be human. But he isn’t. He’s a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He’s one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father’s secret weapon.

Their city is divided.
Their city is crumbling.

Kate and August are the only two who see both sides, the only two who could do something.
But how do you decide to be a hero or a villain when it’s hard to tell which is which?

I absolutely loved this book. It took me a while to get into it because the beginning had a lot of info dumping, but it was necessary. This world is so complex and written so wonderfully. I really enjoyed what Victoria Schwab did with this world/book. This book needs to be read immediately!

What I really loved about this book was how the monsters were created. The town that this book takes place is called Verity and is divided into two. The South (run by Flynn) and the North (run by Harker). Monsters overrun the city and are created when violet crimes are committed. The theme really is violence breeds violence. One of our MCs is August Flynn, who is a monster known as a Sunai. The Sunai are created by the most violet crimes and can steal your soul by a song. August plays the violin and tries so hard to not be what he is. He dreams of being alive, and human. His internal struggle is so heartbreaking that I just want to carry him in my pocket and protect him. I really got sucked into the story because of August.

Kate Harker, on the other hand, is such a badass. She is determined to prove to her father that she is his daughter. She is ruthless, strong, and doesn’t let anyone talk down to her. She gets in your face if you are talking about her and shows you she isn’t afraid of her. I really enjoyed the dynamic she shared with August.

Speaking of Kate and August, oh my god these two are wonderful together! This book had no romance in it and while I appreciated this because that’s not what this book is about…I ship these two so hard. Their interactions, their walls going down while with each other, their protectiveness and loyalty, sigh. I really wouldn’t mind if these two got together in the next book! I wouldn’t mind at. all. ❤

Overall, this book was great! If you haven’t read it yet you really need to. Victoria Scwab is quickly becoming one of my new favorite authors and I am completely okay with this.

until next time,

WWW Wednesday #33 | September 14

Hello hello! Yes, I am late on this post this week. I didn’t update last week because I wasn’t reading anything and today…I just forgot what day it was! OOPS!
anyway, let’s get started shall we?????? 🙂

Now, you know the drill!

the w’s

What have you recently finished reading?

What are you currently reading?

What do you plan on reading next?

   

Oh my god. I am still freaking out over Empire of Storms. I can’t stop thinking about it. That ending though!!!!! If you’ve read it and want to talk about it, please feel free to message me on Twitter or something so we can be fangirls together! I rated this book 4 stars.

When in Rome…Find Yourself: 3 stars

[review here]

Play on: 4 stars

Synops:

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

I really need to get a move on. I said I was going to read this months ago and never did. I picked this up last month to read and I never did. I really need to stop slacking and just read it before the movie comes out!

Have you read this?

What did you think?

Is it good? Okay? Bad?

I hope I like it?????

 

 

Well that’s all I have for this week!

what is your recent book you read that you loved?
What do you plan on reading next?
let’s chat! xxoo

Until next time