First of all, I contacted the Doctor and he took me in 2013 and it was awesome! Really! Well, obviously, we had to save the world from some Daleks, but we did it! And now you'll all be safe!!!
Second of all, this tag is supposed to have 12 books but I only started reading books other than harry potter (yes, for one year and a half I read only harry potter. Problem much?) only in September, thing I'm ashamed of, and I also re read some of the books I will list and I also had some books I read that I didn't really enjoy and I'm sorry about that, so I'm just going to write about 10 books I read this year and really liked.
The books are listed in no particular order. I can't make an actual top 10 because it would be too hard. So here it goes.
Divergent by Veronica Roth
I think this is the best dystopian book I've ever read, along with it's sequel. It was LOVELY! The book is about a girl called Beatrice "Tris" Prior which lives in the dystopian future where the city is divided in 5 factions: Dauntless, Erudite, Candor, Amity, Abnegation. At the age of 16, everyone has to take an aptitude test that will say in which faction you you belong to. Tris lives in Abnegation, which is the faction of the selfless, but she doesn't feel like she belongs to them. When she takes the test, she finds out she's a Divergent (like the title says). When you read the first chapters, it will be quite obvious which faction she will choose. I'm just going to live it to that.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
This is the sequel to Divergent, which I read really fast, and I must say. It was WAY better than the first book. The writing style is AMAZING! You can say that when everything seemed to calm down, that was only the calm before the storm. And the storm was like a hurricane. She is SUCH an incredible writer! I just LOVE her! She just knows how to make you be absorbed by the book! This book is full of cliffhangers! From cover to cover! Page to page! It's a marvelous book! It's beautiful! I don't have words to describe it's beautifulness! I'll just leave it to you!
If I stay by Gayle Foreman
This book was beautiful. I read it at my best friends' recommendation. After I finished Divergent and Insurgent I didn't know what to read so I picked this book from the public library! It was fantastic. It was beautifully written. I really loved it especially because she was a bit like me. I also play a classical musical instrument at school, but I'm not as passionate about it as she is. I play the viola which is pretty close with cello. It was a light read. It was lovely what Adam did for her. This book is about a girl called Mia which has an accident where her parents and younger brother die. But after the impact, she is unconscious, but still, she is there. Throughout the story she tells us the story of how she started playing the cello, about how her parents met, about how her brother happened and about how she met Adam. It's read worthy and I think it's a lovely book and I cannot wait to read the sequel (which I haven't yet because they don't have it at the public library!)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Yes!! Finally! This is THE book of 2012! It is indeed the best book I read this year, if you also count Insurgent. I first encountered this beauty in a youtube comment where someone replied to another person saying "If you never cried at a book, then you should read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green". And I was like 'Yeah, sure! Why not?!" And I read it. It was beautiful! I fell in love with Augustus. He's so sweet, and kind, and smart! I have a friend that sometimes reminds me of him deeply! I don't think I have to say what this book is about because I spoke about it SO MANY TIMES! So I'm going to wait for you to read it. But first, I want to warn you: if you don't want to feel like someone gave you a kitty cat and you fell in love with it and then they took it and killed it, please do read this book.
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephenie Perkins
Because of our dearest John Green, I found out about this book in one of his videos. I thought that I wouldn't like it because I hadn't read any romancy books before and I was like "what the heck!" because I tried reading it but I wasn't that attracted to the beginning of it. So I started reading another book, and after I finished it, I read this one. It's about a girl called Anna Oliphant (obviously) that is pursued by her father to go to boarding school in France. She tried to stop him from making her go. But nothing worked. So she had to move to France to study at SOAP aka School of America in Paris (or something like that) where she meets Étienne St. Clair, who is a handsome young lad which is American and English. It's a lovely book, even tho it has a love square (that's what I told my best friend) and a bit of cheesiness here and there, but I think it's pretty kewl because it was really funny and stuff! (I've just seen the most horrific thing ever. Harry Styles as Étienne. Horrible!)
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
I just HAD to read this after I finished the first book! And I must say, I liked this a lot more than the first! It's about a girl that thinks fashion is awesome and she dresses in a lot more different than everything you would see on the streets. She has two gay dads, a loving boyfriend and a willingness not to ever see the Bell twins again. But one day the inevitable happens and the Bell twins are back into town. Well, this book was lovely. It was HILARIOUS! And, dude, Cricket, he's so sweet and cute and funny and smart! I recommend this book to everyone that likes funny stuff and cute romantic stuff (it wasn't that cute. Nor romantic)
The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
I read this before Anna and the French Kiss and this was also a recommendation from the lovely and awesome John Green and I thought that it will be a good future read. So I got the pdf file and read it on my cousins' mp4. This book is about a girl called Hadley Sullivan who has to go to his father's wedding in London right from the JFK airport in New York. She missed the plane she should've fly with, so she had to wait in the airport for a few hours where she fills the void of silence with a British boy called Oliver which also has to fly to London with the same plane as Hadleys'. I really liked this book. After I finished it, I wanted more. It was so beautiful. I'll have to do a reread of the last 3 books I talked about because, like Charlie, I have to read a book twice to really really understand it.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Because of my best friends awesome recommendations (I hope you are satisfied now), I also read these! I REALLY loved them! I am sure I don't have to say what are they about because EVERYONE knows about them!! They were so addictive (well, not as addictive as Divergent) and it was an easy read. I was scared that it was going to have a shit-load of detailing, like The Hobbit, but I was glad to see it didn't. The only thing I didn't like (like everybody else) is that the end of the last book was rushed! I'm not really sure why she did that, but I usually do that when I don't know what to write or when I'm out of time. I'm probably sure it was because she was out of time. That's what J.K. Rowling said about writing the 4th Harry Potter book.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
After I watched the first Percy Jackson movie I wanted to read one of Rick Riordan's books, but I couldn't read the first book because they didn't have the public library and they only had this one. It was lovely! I think it was awesome, and I didn't have to know what happened in the second book to read this. I don't know if I should say what it's about because I might spoil the first two books. But I think that you will love it because it's Greek Mythology and dude, the Greek Mythology is GORGEOUS! I wanna read some books about that, but I'm too lazy to look for them. They're called The Legends of Olympus, but I don't think you can find them in English because I'm pretty sure it's written by a Romanian historian.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
I found out about this book from a top 100 YA books of all time (all of John Green's books are there! Except for Let it snow) and I really liked the plot so I just went to the public library and borrowed it. The story is about a boy, Clay Jerson, that gets some cassette tapes from no one, apparently, but he later finds out that they're from his late crush, Hannah Baker, who killed herself two weeks earlier. When I finished the book, I didn't want more from the book because I think he finished it beautifully and he didn't make the readers want to complain that it seemed unfinished. It was really awesome, and even though I think that Hannah shouldn't've killed herself and that she should've spoken with someone. And I also think that Clay was a pussy that he didn't go and talk to her more. It was a bummer.
I swear, next year I'm gonna do only 5 books! THIS WAS THE WORST THING EVER!
Anywhore, I hope you all have a great year and stay safe and don't get drunk and don't drive if you do.
Goodbye
M
