The only reading challenge I’ve ever participated is the Goodreads Reading Challenge. I decided I want to branch out in 2017 and try some other challenges — there are so many great ones out there! It was hard, but I narrowed down my options to four challenges that interest me the most. This post will be updated throughout 2017 as I complete the challenges:
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Book Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black // needed more sword fights
Title: The Darkest Part of the Forest
Author: Holly Black
Published: January 13, 2015
Pages: 336
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance
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Goodreads Description: Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.
At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.
Until one day, he does…
As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?
To be completely honest, the synopsis of this story didn’t particularly interest me.
I was about to dismiss this book when I realized that it was written by one of the co-authors of a favorite childhood series of mine, The Spiderwick Chronicles. I decided to give The Darkest Part of the Forest a chance in the hopes that it would possess similar elements to the aforementioned series.
Continue reading “Book Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black // needed more sword fights”Book Review: Dreamology by Lucy Keating // an interesting concept with humorous execution
Title: Dreamology
Author: Lucy Keating
Published: April 16, 2016
Pages: 336
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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Goodreads Description: For as long as Alice can remember, she has dreamed of Max. Together they have traveled the world and fallen deliriously, hopelessly in love. Max is the boy of her dreams—and only her dreams. Because he doesn’t exist.
But when Alice walks into class on her first day at a new school, there he is. It turns out, though, that Real Max is nothing like Dream Max, and getting to know each other in reality isn’t as perfect as Alice always hoped.
When their dreams start to bleed dangerously into their waking hours, the pair realize that they might have to put an end to a lifetime of dreaming about each other. But when you fall in love in your dreams, can reality ever be enough?
I’m sure most of us have had dreams fantasizing about the perfect someone.
I was excited to read this book because the story’s plot sounded like a dream come true (pun intended).
Continue reading “Book Review: Dreamology by Lucy Keating // an interesting concept with humorous execution”5 Books I Finally Want to Read in 2017
Sometimes my procrastination gets so severe that I put off reading books that I actually want to read. One of my resolutions (for next year, of course) is to end this awful habit. Here are five books that I finally want to read in 2017:
The Tipping Point: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
I made it my mission to avoid anything related to A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas soon after its release because I saw spoilers about Feyre’s new romance with Rhysand. It seemed silly to me that Feyre would have a new romance after all the obstacles she had to overcome to be with Tamlin in A Court of Thorns and Roses. I thought Maas had created a love triangle just for the sake of keeping Tamlin and Feyre apart for a longer time. I thought she was trying to milk the series. I strongly dislike love triangles, so I convinced myself that I was satisfied with the ending of the first book and saw no need to read the sequel.
But, today I failed my mission. Continue reading “The Tipping Point: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas”
Belle Can Read 