Hi, there! Good Tuesday to you 😀 Today I’m finally posting my official selection for 2015, so please be prepared for a huge post! I’m so grateful to have read so many good books! I’ll use as a guide a challenged put together by bookstgrammer @annreads to do this, so le’ts go 😀
1) First read of the year
My first reads were this comic book by Donald Duck and this book called Venom, by Kristen Middleton ❤
A short manga story called No Toy. It doesn’t even possess a cover and it was 6 pages long, haha!
3) New Favorite Authors
Omg, be prepared for the list:
- Lauren Bird Horowitz
- Linda Oaks
- Mark C. King
- Jacqueline E. Smith
- Steve Spatucci
- Jordan L. Hawk
- James Morris
- Rick Riordan (I had never read Percy Jackson before 2015)
- Madeleine Roux
- Shannon Hale
- Miyuki Abe
- Grace Burrowes
- John Flanagan
- Hinako Takanaga
- Rihito Takarai
- Jax Garren
Those are the awesome author’s that I had the privilege to literary meet in 2015 ❤
4) Biggest Surprise
My early Christmas present from Ava March ❤ She sent me an ARC copy of Convincing the Secretary months before its release and I got tackled down good, haha! To read its review, click here!
5) Books with Beautiful Covers
Those are my read beauties from 2015 ❤
Venom, Kristen Middleton (4 stars)
The Gentleman and the Lamplighter, Summer Devon (4 stars)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Official Movie Guide (5 stars)
Keep Out, Yuka Hichiwa (5 stars)
Sanctum (Asylum #2), Madeleine Roux (5 stars)
All In with the Duke (Gambling on Love #1), Ava March (5 stars)
Chasing Rainbows (The Chasing Series #1), Linda Oaks (5 stars)
The Need, S.L. Hannah (3 stars)
Shattered Blue (The Light #1), Lauren Bird Horowitz (5 stars)
The Heir (The Selection #4), Kiera Cass (3 stars)
Secrets and High Spirits (Secrets #4), Lou Harper (3 stars)
What Lies Within, James Morris (4 stars)
Misunderstood: Secrets of a Teen Queen, Anya Valentino (3 stars)
Convincing the Secretary (London Legal #3), Ava March (5 stars)
After Death (Cemetery Tours #3), by Jacqueline E. Smith
6) Newest Fictional Boyfriends
A whole post about this is coming soon, haha!
7) Best Sequel
- Dangerous Spirits, Jordan L. Hawk [review here!]
- Viscount’s Wager, Ava March [review here!]
- Supernatural: Bobby Singer’s Guide to Hunting, David Reed [review here!]
- Finding Forever, Linda Oaks [review here!]
- Between Worlds, Jacqueline E. Smith [review here!]
- Daughters of Darkness, L.J. Smith [review coming soon!]
- After Death, Jacqueline E. Smith
- Convincing the Secretary, Ava March
- Sanctum, Madeleine Roux
8) New Favorite Female Characters
- Isabel, from Goddess of Legend
- Jane Hayes, from Austenland
- Annie, from Shielded Past
- Rhi, Emma and Winnie from Stripped with the Vampire
- Kate, from Cemetery Tours
- Poppy, Mary-Lynnette and Thea, from Night World series (Secret Vampire and Daughters of Darkness so far)
- Addison Hayes, from Chasing Rainbows
- Noa, from Shattered Blue
- Kara Thorn, from Finding Forever
9) Books that made you happy
All of them, haha!
10) Best standalones
I just realized that I have read very few standalone books in 2015, haha! But the best are:
- The Gentleman and the Lamplighter, Summer Devon
- The Tutor, Bonnie Dee
And this is the end of part 1, haha! Tomorrow, there is part 2 ;D Thanks for reading!
Hi besty! As you know I’ve been trying to catch up with your blog’s reading haha. And I loved this post! Especially the pictures. I really liked the ones regarding the most pretty covers, I agree with most of them, but my favorite’s from them are: Shattered Blue, The Heir, After Death, Sanctum, What Lies Within and The Hobbit movie guide one. haha. The idea of following the instagram challenge to talk about this subject is perfect! But really, three parts?! Just kidding haha.
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Hi, bestie! Thank you so much for stopping by ❤ ❤ And thank you, haha! They all are so pretty, right?! And sorry, it is big, but the challenge had 31 days HAHAHA Hope you like the next ones as well when you get there, oops!
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