Joelene's 5 Top Reads 2014

Joelene

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – Holly Black

Entire cities blocked off to control world-wide vampiric outbreaks. A girl wakes up to find that all of her friends are dead. Now she has no choice but to enter a Coldtown.

Bitterwood Bible – Angela Slatter

A strange and deadly man wanders the pages of this book of overlapping short stories, destroying anything in his path.

How the Light Gets In – Louise Penny

Almost a cosy mystery but with more political scope and scandal than any I’ve read before.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor

Doors that only open from the inside and lead to places that you would never imagine. This novel has immense and mind-blowing imagination in its world-building.

All Our Yesterdays – Cristin Terrill

Would you go back in time to kill the one person you had loved all of your life? If it meant saving the world? A fun time-travel novel that actually deals with some serious ethical issues.

Most Anticipated

I admit I haven’t kept up with books that much this year, and I have a massive TBR pile at home so next year most of the ones I’m looking forward to are already out.

Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black

I don’t even know what it’s about. It’s Holly Black and usually that’s enough.

Unmade – Sarah Rees Brennan

The third in the Lynburn Legacy trilogy. Though the second in the series wasn’t amazing, I have great hopes for this one.

Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch

This is one that I’ve been seeing around for ages as well as having customers recommend it. Hearing that Lynch has Pirate Queens sealed the deal.

The Monogram Murders – Sophie Hannah

I’m a massive Agatha Christie fan so when I heard that Sophie Hannah was writing a new Hercule Poirot, I was sceptical. I really like Hannah’s writing style though and, when I read the blurb, I knew I had to have it.

Dreams of Gods and Monsters – Laini Taylor

The first two were great, so my expectations for the final are high. It helps that Bel enjoyed it so much too.