Good day to you all, dear readers! It took me a while but I finally did it, I pulled together a list of my favorite reads for 2016. Even though we are now past mid-January, I hope you guys will still enjoy my own little retrospective. I’m starting with the best of the best, then best by categories, 2 honorable mentions and a small recap of 2016 with my goals for 2017. Links to reviews(marked with *) or Goodreads links. BEST OF THE BEST...

Hello again, dear readers! First of all, a Happy New Year to you all! I hope you all had a great time for the holidays, and that 2016 has been treating you well in its first week! Each new year since I’ve been blogging brings once more one of my favorite things : the list of all the books I enjoyed the most in the past 12 months, books that had me smile or cry, books that entertained me, writing that amazed me, stories that will...

As I sat here waiting for my copy of Six of Crows to arrive, I kept thinking back to the Grisha series, and what an exciting time I had reading it, and how sad I was I had never taken the time to review it. But it’s not too late is it? I embarked on that fantastic adventure in December of last year, and it’s all still fresh enough in my memory. So let’s do this! (Since I didn’t review the books individually at the time,...

The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco Pages : 267 Genre : YA, Horror Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw...

California by Edan Lepucki Pages : 393 Genre : Speculative Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they’ve left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable despite the isolation and hardships they face. Consumed by fear of the future and mourning for a past they...

Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff Narrated by : MacLeod Andrews, Arielle DeLisle Pages/Time : 400 pages / 9h33 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and...

Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan Pages : 336 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Sixteen-year-old Josie lives her life in translation. She speaks High School, College, Friends, Boyfriends, Break-ups, and even the language of Beautiful Girls. But none of these is her native tongue — the only people who speak that are her best friend Stu and her sister Kate. So when Kate gets engaged...

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith Pages : 352 Genre : Mystery Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother…she’s not well, his father tells him. She’s been imagining things – terrible, terrible...