What? It’s a little too late to be talking about the books I read last year? Just because the month is almost over?
Meeeeeh.
I know my updates are somehow like eclipses or comets, but I’m trying to change that this year. I already failed by not updating until the end of January? Maaaaaybe. But I swear it’s usually for reasons I can’t control.
So, here’s the list month by month, with the stars rating I gave them on Goodreads.
JANUARY
Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman – 5 stars
(I really LOVED Neverwhere and I’m a fan of Neil ever since. I’m planning on reading everything)
FEBRUARY
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, vol. 1, by Sakura Kinoshita (manga) – 5 stars
Ghostgirl, by Tonya Hurley – 4 stars
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, by JK Rowling – 4 stars
(Loki was a rereading, but I truly enjoyed it again. Ghostgirl would have been more relevant when I was at a certain age I guess, but I laughed a lot and the cultural references were awesome. Fanstastic Beasts was…weird, but entertaining.)
MARCH
Marmalade Boy Little 1, by Wataru Yoshizumi – no rating
Yamato Nadeshiko Sichihenge/The Wallflower, vols. 25 to 31, by Tomoko Hayakawa – 5 stars (all)
(I guess it was the manga month. I remember I barely had the time or the disposition to read anything else. Marmalade Boy is a hit of my preteen years, so when I knew Wataru was writing a ‘sequel’ I had to take a look. It’s not bad. The Wallflower has become one of my favourite manga ever. It’s hilarious and far from typical.)
APRIL
Donde los árboles cantan, by Laura Gallego – 3 stars
Yamato Nadeshiko Sichihenge/The Wallflower vol 32 – 4 stars
Isolation by Bex-chan (fanfiction) – 4 stars
(I don’t know if Laura’s book is translated to English, so there. Isolation is a Dramione (Draco/Hermione, from Harry Potter) fanfiction that is so well written I’m actually a little jealous.)
JUNE
Over The Tracks (The Heart Rate Of A Mouse #1), by Anna Green – 4 stars
A Dance With Dragons (A Song Of Ice And Fire #5) by George RR Martin – 3 stars
El joven Lennon, by Jordi Sierra i Fabra – 5 stars
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1), by Charlaine Harris – 2 stars
Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan, vol 13, by Hajime Isayama – 3 stars
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1), by Cassandra Clare – 3 stars
(THROAM is a piece of fanfiction too, but you can read it as a whole new thing apart from that. I’d recommend it to anyone who is not afraid of a little gay porn. Dance was a little disappointing and a LOT boring. But it has some pretty good parts too. I hate Sookie and Bill . SnK/AoT started to get boring too. City of Bones was good enough to keep me hooked so I read the whole series in a few days.)
JULY
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2), by Cassandra Clare – 3 stars
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments #3), by Cassandra Clare – 3 stars
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments #4), by Cassandra Clare – 4 stars
City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5), by Cassandra Clare – 4 stars
City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6), by Cassandra Clare – 5 stars
The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green – 2 stars
The Man In The Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas – 2 stars
Homecoming (Ghostgirl #2), by Tonya Hurley – 2 stars
(Apart from the TMI series, July was a pretty bad month, as you can see)
AUGUST
Divergent (Divergent #1) & Insurgent (Divergent #2), by Veronica Roth – 3 stars
Wolves vs Hearts (The Heart Rate Of A Mouse #2) & A Kingdom By The Sea (The Heart Rate Of A Mouse #3), by Anna Green – 5 stars (both)
(Divergent is a series which I think has a pretty good general basis & imaginary distopian world but with a main character I don’t really like and several flaws in its development. I still want to read Allegiant though –just to see how it all ends. WvH & AKbtS were magnificent though, I was heartbroken because it ended.)
OCTOBER
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare – 2 stars
Game of Thrones (A Song Of Ice And Fire #1), by George RR Martin (rereading) – 5 stars
Foxfire: Confessions of a girl gang, by Joyce Carol Oates – 5 stars
(I was disappointed by Shakespeare’s comedy, enjoyed a lot Winterfell again, fell in love with Legs and wanted to join the gang)
NOVEMBER
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1), by Marissa Meyer – 4 stars
The Outsiders, by E.S. Hinton – 3 stars
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2), by Marissa Meyer – 4 stars
A Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle), by Patrick Rothfuss – 3 stars
(I loved Cinder & Scarlet although there was something missing for me hence the 4 stars. The Outsiders wasn’t so amazing after reading Foxfire though it’s a great piece. The plot twist was Kvothe’s second book, where I wanted to punch him in the face so many times that I couldn’t love this book as much as the first.)
DECEMBER
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth-Grahame Smith – 2 stars
Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1), by Tahereh Mafi – 4 stars
(P&P&Z, although pretty laughable sometimes, could have been so much better I had to 2 starred it. Shatter Me has become one of my favourite things, although some details refrained me from giving the 5 stars.)
That was all! Have you read any of those books? If so, what did you think about them? What books did you enjoy past year, and what books did you hate?
Don’t be shy 😉
-E.
Reading Is Not Easy With Eyes Closed 