With the year drawing to a close I have selected my favourite books of the year, including standalones and series, though the amount of my favourites are probably subject to change as it's not quite the end of year! What are you favourites so far?
Standalones
This is a love story. But it’s not what you think. This is not a first kiss, or a first date. This is not love at first sight. This is a boy and a girl falling in messy, unpredictable, thrilling love. This is the complicated route to happiness that follows.
After a traumatic experience Valerie has spent the summer secluded away attending therapy sessions to relive her mind of the awful day when everything changed in her small suburban town. Now Valerie must return to complete her last year of school, but she must face the guilt of the infamous Hate List she created with her boyfriend Nick which so happened to leave a wake of tragedy behind them. Will her classmates be so forgiving and will she forever forgive herself.
Series
Avery Morganstern wants to begin her life again and by that she wants a fresh new start, she choses a college on the other side of the country, so very far away from home where nobody knows her or what happened to her on that fateful halloween night, though with hints along the way we get an understanding of how Avery became the person she is today. But when Avery is late for her first day of class she accidentally bumps into socialite Cameron Hamilton, a guy who knows pretty much everyone on campus, except that he doesn't know her but as sure as hell wants to. Who would of thought that the first guy Avery stumbles into would be the one to bring the spark back into her life, but will her secrets hold her back from an undeniable attraction.
No one knows what really happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms.
Its been weeks since the angels have fallen and taken over the world. Seventeen year old Penryn Young finds herself battling through a post apocalyptic world, though something she didn't plan on was stumbling into an angel dispute. The angels are angry with Penryn and take her sister, Paige, it's Penryn's mission to find her with the help of an wingless angel.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
In Throne Of Glass we meet Celaena Sardothien, one of Adarlan's greatest assassins, who has spent an entire year at one of the harshest prisons in the land, Endovier. It is known that most prisoners can survive up to a month, however due to Celaena's excessive training she had the mental and physical abilities to survive the conditions of Endovier. But now Celaena is given the choice, enter a competition to serve as the King's Champion, if she wins Celaena will fulfil her contract with the King and will finally be given her freedom. Though if she does not succeed Celaena will be sent back to Endovier, knowing that she won't be able to survive for another year she accepts her sponsors terms, who just so happens to be the King's son Prince Dorian.
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