Top Books of 2014

These are my favorite books I've read in 2014. They aren't necessary books that came out in 2014, but ones I read during 2014. These also aren't really in any order.

• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson.  I've talked about this books so much everywhere. I love it so much it's insane. It's definitely the best book I've read this year. The writing style is amazing and I love dual POVs.  I still tear up thinking about it. It's soooooo beautiful if you haven't read it, go now. Read my full review here. 

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I finished this book in the middle of my first period class and began to cry. This book broke my heart so many times. It's an Iliad retelling and knowing how the book would end just made it 10 times worse (in the emotional section). The writing is beautiful, the characters are beautiful. This book is beautiful. Read my full review here.

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. I remember finishing this book, closing the back cover slowly and then just sitting there for a while in astonishment. I know I've described every book so far as beautiful, but this is the last one. All three of the books so far has had such beautiful writing its insane. 

• The Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas. This is a fantasy series that has three books so far but I've heard it's going to had at least five. I'm kind of cheating by grouping these but who cares. Because of these books I wanted to be an assassin for a while. The main character, Celeana is so bad ass and cool and amazing I love her so much. This story is going to get so huge and dimensional I can't wait. I think I like the second books the most but was disappointed about the third one, but that was mostly my fault. My favorite was the novellas though. Read my full review of the third book here. 

• Cress by Marissa Meyer. Is the third book in the Lunar Chronicles. Although I liked the second one, Scarlet, more I still loved this one. They're science fiction fairy tell retelling, this one focusing on Rapunzel, who lives in a space ship and is a hacker. These books are great, they're funny and action packed, and I highly recommend. 

• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. It's a series of graphic novel and the drawing style is amazing as well as the story. The story is so coll and weird and kind of creepy yet hilarious. It's funny and heart tugging and cute and the story is so big and getting so big it's going to be great.  I have a small review of the first volume here. 

• The Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout. This series is laugh out loud funny. I would find myself laughing in the most serious situation which was just great. I binge read these so fast, knowing they aren't that good (as in contributive to the human race) but not being able to stop reading them. The main character doesn't take any shit it's great and I would be fine with the entire series being just dialogue the dialogue was so good. Although It did have some sore spots, like the first and last books being not that great, it still belongs on this list for how much joy it gave me. This seriees was also the inspiration for this blog. Read a review of all five books here. 

• The Vampire Academy and The Bloodlines Series by Richelle Mead. Grouping eleven books together I guess isn't that fair but *shrugs*. This was definitely a really rocky series, with some being five stars and others two, but all together they were really entertaining. Looking back at and while I was reading them I knew they weren't that good. Like the Lux series I binge read these, but this was worse. I finished all eleven books in about two weeks. It was over the summer and I would stay up to 5 in the morning reading, get up at twelve and then read some more. 

The Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout (overall review)

Series Rating: 4.5 stars

    Let me set the scene. Olivia. Late at Night. A dead bookshelf with books laying everywhere. Grieving. The main character of the book I was currently reading is a book blogger. Why not?

*cue many days of template searching instead of actually reading*

    I saw this series on Booktube a lot as "Twilight but aliens" and finally gave in. I didn't expect to like it. Two Twilights can't coexist and both be good. But alas, it was sooo good. I didn't expect it to be so funny and I read the whole series in about 5 days. It took Katy a while to figure out the whole alien thing, which was frustrating, but afterwards the action never stopped and I was on the edge of my seat 95% of the time. The dialog was perfect and I found myself laughing in the most serious situations. My favorite was Opal (Lux #3) and my least favorite has to be either the first or last one.

     The main character, Kathy, was such a badass bitch and didn't take any shit I just want to be her. She was strong, a fangirl, and her refusal of falling into a damsel in distress position makes me love her so much. Daemon in the beginning was down right cruel to her and she never backed down. Daemon, the love interest, made me out loud and the banter he had with everyone, especially Katy, was perfect. To describe my love of the rest of the gang would give spoilers, but i'll just say a certain 15 year old is the reason for my existence. I was born to read him. I just want a whole book of just him. I could read him reading a phone book.

     The reason for the 4.5 stars instead of 5 was the opening and closing of the series. Altough i very much enjoyed the lack of insta love, in Obsidian and a little in Onyx Daemon was so hot and cold, his cold being downright awful to Katy, it was frustrating and sometimes I would set the book down because I didn't want to deal with him. However, once Daemon and Katy got together I was in love. In Opposition, the final book, I would find myself skipping whole paragraphs and skimming the page just reading the dialogue. It was, it hurts to say but,  boring. It seemed every three seconds there was a new conflict which was predictably solved in 50 pages. I still gave it four stars for the characters and the dialogue and I still enjoyed it.

    Overall, I loved it. The characters were fantastic. The narration was fantastic. The dialogue was fantastic. It made me laugh out loud then reread it and laugh again. It was cheesy, and it knew it, and it called itself out on it. It accepted it was a book where a girl literally falls in love with a alien and it embraced it. Go read it (I do suggest a library copy or an eBook though because those cover man, they're bad).