Best books I’ve read in 2015! – Pt. 1

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 ❤

from my Instagram ❤

2) Shortest book you’ve read

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!