Top 5 Wednesday: Favorite Underrated Books

 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Lainey @GingerReadsLainey on YouTube and hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes. Every Wednesday there is a new topic, and you list your top 5 related to the particular topic. This weeks topic is favorite underrated books. For more information on top 5 Wednesday and the Goodreads group click HERE.

Here are my top 5 underrated books

This list is in no particular order

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

This is the first book in the Ascendance trilogy. This series is an amazing fantasy series that I’ve been raving about for a year so you need to pick it up! Really you won’t be sorry. You can find my review here.

Top 5 Wednesday: Polarizing Books

 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Lainey @GingerReadsLainey on YouTube and hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes. Every Wednesday there is a new topic, and you list your top 5 related to the particular topic. This weeks topic is 2017 debuts you are excited for. For more information on top 5 Wednesday and the Goodreads group click HERE.

Polarizing books means books that people either love of hat, with no in between.

I wasn’t able to come up with 5 polarizing books that I loved so I also have a few books that I hatted. Some on both sides of this spectrum.

This list is in no particular order.

1. Defiance by C.J. Redwine

I don’t hear people talk about this book much only when they decide to get rid of it or didn’t like it. But I loved it. In my opinion it’s better than the divergent trilogy, but it is a lot more underrated.

Top 5 Wednesday: 2017 Debuts You Are Excited For

Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Lainey @GingerReadsLainey on YouTube and hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes. Every Wednesday there is a new topic, and you list your top 5 related to the particular topic. This weeks topic is 2017 debuts you are excited for. For more information on top 5 Wednesday and the Goodreads group click HERE.

When I saw this topic I thought that it would be difficult to find debuts that I look forward to, but I was wrong. I didn’t know that a lot of books that I was anticipating were debuts. So here is my top 5 (with some honorable mentions)

This list is in no particular order.

The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich

Publication date: May 16^th 2017

This is about an organization that cultivates teenage spies. These spies get close to people that are destined for great power.

Caden is the nice one. Dylan is the bad and brooding one. Both Caden and Dylan are living for the first time in the outside world. They are well trained and they need to be. Because whoever the girl doesn’t choose will die.

What the boys don’t expect are feelings that are outside of their training. Feelings that could kill them.

These guys are supposed to make this girl fall in love with them; instead they fall in love with one another. Or at least that’s what it sounds like. If that doesn’t intrigue you, I don’t know what will.

The Hate U Give Angie Thomas

Publication date: Febuary 28^th 2017

I’ve been seeing this book everywhere. So, most of you will already know what it’s about. But for those who don’t. It’s about a girl from a poor neighborhood, who witnessed a fatal police shooting of her unarmed best friend. It is inspired by the Black Lives Matters movement. I heard great things so far and I’m curious.

Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts

Publication date: June 6^th 2017

It’s a fantasy about a bastard, Tilla. She want’s noting more than the love and acceptance of her father. During a feast honoring the visiting princess Lyrianna, the royal shocks everyone by choosing to sit at the Bastards’ Table. Before she knows it, Tilla is leading the sheltered princess with a few fellow bastards on a late-night escapade. They stumble upon a crime they were never meant to witness.

The group flees for their lives, relentlessly pursued by murderous mercenaries; their own parents have put a price on their heads to prevent the king and his powerful Royal Mages from discovering their treachery.

The bastards band together, realizing they alone have the power to prevent a civil war that will tear their kingdom apart.

Wait for Me by Caroline Leech

Publication date: January 31^th 2017

I’m trying to get more into historical fiction this year. So, when I read the synopsis of this book, I was hooked.

This is a love story between a girl from Scotland and a German prisoner of war. He is assigned as the new farmhand at her father’s farm.

The more she learns about him the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. With tensions rising all around them, they must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice before the end of the war determines their fate.

Hold Back The Stars Katie Khan

Publication date: January 26^th 2017

Hold Back The Stars is a science fiction that takes place in space. Carys and Max have ninety minutes of air left and noting to hold on to but each other. They can’t help but look back at the well-ordered world they have left behind, a life to which they might never return now.

This sounds interesting, don’t you think? I can’t wait. 

Honorable mentions

December Wrap-up

Last month I started The Lunar Chronicles and I finished it on the 1st of December. In the first week I also finished The Corrigan Falls Raiders trilogy. Apart from that I didn't have a great reading month. I was sick in the second and third week. After that I had an exam so I was a bit stressed and didn't have the time to read much.I'm also a bit behind on my reviews so there are coming a few this month. 

Here are the books that I read in the month of December and how I rated them. I added links for books I have a review on.

Stats

Read books: 5

Genre: 2 YA Sci-fi Epic, 2 Contemporary Romance and 1 Adult Apocalyptic
Pages: 1.831

Top 5 Wednesday: Goals for 2017

Happy new year everyone!

Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme created by Lainey @ GingerReadsLainey on YouTube and hosted by Sam @ ThoughtsOnTomes. Every Wednesday there is a new topic, and you list your top 5 related to the particular topic. This weeks topic is goals for 2017. This could be for reading, bloging or personal goals. For more information on top 5 Wednesday and the Goodreads group click HERE.

I already made a post of my reading resolutions/goals. You can find that here

1. Reading goal: Read at least 5 Tomes (books with more than 500 pages)
Last year I set a goal on pages read instead of an amount of books, because I noticed that I was only picking up small books and the big once remained on my shelves unread. I don't have a goal to read a certain amount of books or pages this year at all, but I still want to push myself to read those bigger books. I though 5 was an amount that wouldn’t put me under too much pressure.

Reading Stats and Goals of 2016

Happy new year! The year is over, and it is time to see much I read in 2016. lets see if I completed my reading Goals. 

Goals For 2016 were:

-       Read 17.000 Pages

-       Finish 10 series

-       Read 2 classics

-       Read from 10 writers on my really good writers list

-       Make more reviews

-       Read these 5 standalones: Asking For It Louise o’Neill, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories Marina Keegan, This Song Will Save Your Life Leila Sales, My Life Next Door Huntley Fitzpatrick, On The Island Tracey Garvis Graves

Let’s see how many goals I completed!

I read 17.431 pages. So I completed the first goal 😃

I finish 8 series, which I’m really happy with. I didn’t completed this goal but I did a lot better than 2015 (in 2015 I finished 4 series :P) I think I’ll make a separate post of the series that I finished this year, so I can talk more in depth about them.

I read 5 classics: Persuasion by Jane Austen, Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (I know that Harry Potter might not be a classic, but I think it is. It changes my generation, so in my eyes it is a classic 😇).

I read from 9 writers on my really good writers list so I’m not disappointed at all. And again better than in 2015 were I think I read from 7 authors.

The next goal wasn’t that hard. Normally I made 4 reviews per year, so all I needed to do was write more than 4 reviews this year. I don’t exactly know how many reviews I write this year but definitely more than 4. I think it’s somewhere around the 15 to 20 reviews, but that is just a guess.

I didn’t do so well with the standalones. I read My Life Next Door, On The Island and The Opposite of Loneliness. I didn’t get to This Song Will Save Your Life and Asking For It. I’m disappointed with this one. I only had to read 5 books, but no, apparently I couldn’t even do that 😇.

So I completed 3 of the 6 goals and 2 almost so I’m very satisfied with these results 😃

Other reading stats of this 2016

The longest book that I read was A Clash of Kings with 1.010 pages.

The shortest book that I read was We Should All Be Feminists with 49 pages The average length of the books I read in 2016 was 329 pages

I rated 2 books 1 star 
I rated 15 books 2 stars
I rated 20 books 3 stars
I rated 13 books 4 stars
I rated 4 books 5 stars

Which brings my total on 54 books

My favorite books of 2016 were Cinder by Marissa Meyer, The Crown of Embers and The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson and The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen

My least favorite books of 2016 were The Martian by Andy Weir and Click to Subscribe by L.M. Augustine.