Reading Fictional: December 2017

December 12, 2017

Top Twelve Favorite Books of 2017

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Twelve Favorite Books of 2017
(in no particular order)

Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3) by Laini Taylor (5/5 stars): I loved it!

Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas (5/5 stars): This novel was a mind-blowing surprise, I loved it! A great mystery book. Review

Quintana of Charyn (Lumatere Chronicles #3) by Melina Marchetta (5/5 stars) : This year I read Froi of the Exiles and Quintana of Charyn of the Lumatere Chronicles and I LOVED them! both are 5/5 stars.

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis (4.5/5 stars)
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (4.5/5 stars) Review
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia (4.5/5 stars) Review

With All My Soul (Soul Screamers #7) by Rachel Vincent (4.5/5 stars)

Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer (4.5/5 stars): This year I read Cress and Winter and I loved them both!

Shadowcaster (Shattered Realms #2) by Cinda Williams Chima (4.5/5 stars): I loved this book! Review

One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress #2) by Jeaniene Frost (5/5 stars): This year I read the complete Night Huntress series and it´s a great series and all of them are 4 stars or more but my favorite was the second book.

Mistborn (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson (5/5 stars): Great beginning of a trilogy,

Seventh Grave and No Body (Charley Davidson #7) by Darynda Jones (5/5 stars): This year I read the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth book of the Charley Davidson series and I really enjoyed them and my favorites are Sixth Grave on the Edge and Seventh Grave and No Body.

What are your favorite books of this year?

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December 11, 2017

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Date.

Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.

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Finished reading

Twice Tempted (Night Prince #2) by Jeaniene Frost (4.5/5 stars)

P.S. I Like You by Kasie West (4.25/5 stars)

Currently reading

Obsidian (Lux #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

It´s a re-read because I´m continuing with the book series.

What I´m going to read next?

Visions (Cainsville #2) by Kelley Armstrong

Onyx (Lux #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

What are you reading today?

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December 6, 2017

Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Title: Sharp Objects
Author: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Broadway Books
Release date: September 26th 2006
Reading level: Ages 18 and up

Rating: 4.5/5

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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows, a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

In the months October and November I read several thrillers and Sharp Objects is among my favorites of them, because the plot hooked me from the beginning and it has very good twists and turns, although it was disturbing and had quite dark parts, it´s a very good book.

And as I am of the idea in regards to the books of the genre thriller-mystery that the less you know the better, I will not go into much details.

Camille is a thirty-year-old reporter, whom after several years away from her hometown, returns to cover for her newspaper the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl and the murder of another 9-year-old girl that occurred months earlier, and instead of going to a hotel, she stays at her mother´s and stepfather´s house with whom she has a difficult relationship, especially her mother. Once there, she begins interviewing both the local police chief and the parents of the girls, but in general she finds resistance from the police and the parents of one of the girls, as they don´t want to talk to her, so her stay lengthens until she gets the story and she approaches certain important people near the victims, but while all this happens, Camille remembers the reason why she didn´t want to return to her home town, besides meeting for the first time her 13-year-old half-sister. The problems she is having with her coverage, coupled with the problems she has with her family, make her personal demons reappear.

Sharp Objects is a rather dark thriller novel that is sometimes quite graphic in details and has disturbing scenes that can be uncomfortable and somewhat chilling and creepy, with a plot that is not pretty and with a shocking ending, but overall is a really good book. I highly recommend it.