Dear Blog,
today the subject of the Persnickety Snark FIVE challenge is great series I've read this year. I'll mention that most of these are all the UK release dates, seeing as confusion can occasionally ensue when I mention books that have come out this year in the UK but came out last year in the Land of the Free. So, in no particular order:
GONE by Michael Grant
2010 release: Lies
I've read the first three books in these series (which is going to be six books, I believe). They're all fantastic; Disturbed, disturbing, and always, always exciting. One of those series that's great fun to imagine what it would be like if you were one of the characters.
DEAR AMERICA by various authors
2010 release: The Fences Between Us
I have to include Dear America because it's been one of my favourite series since I was nine, and it got relaunched this year. Booyah. So even though I have potentially outgrown them, they are some of my ultimate comfort reads.
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins
2010 release: Mockingjay
perhaps this could be considered cheating, in that I've only read the first two books, but the third is the one that came out this year. Well, I don't care, because The Hunger Games and Catching Fire are both, despite a mere handful of flaws, worthy of a mention.
CHAOS WALKING by Patrick Ness
2010 release: Monsters of Men
Sci-fi setting? Check. Unique hero? check. Fantastic heroine? check. Complex antagonists? Check. Likeable supporting characters? Check. Fast-paced plots? Check. Gripping opening? Check. Intriguing sequel? Check. Stunning conclusion? Check. What more do you want from a trilogy?
TRANSLUCENT by Kazuhiro Okamoto
2010 release: Volume 4
To my mind, Translucent grabs the top spot in any Underrated Shojo Manga Ever list. It's a will-be quintet- Volume 4 was released in August, and volume 5 is yet to come- and everyone who claims to like shojo manga should read it, even though nobody I've spoken to who claims to like shojo manga has read it. What's not to like? Are the characters not realistic enough for you? Not enough action going on in the utterly charming romance? Pah.
Well, that's all for me this evening. I made a rash promise to a friend I'd send her the first hundred pages of my NaNoWriMo novel for Christmas, and none of it is edited. So all for now.
Well, that's all for me this evening. I made a rash promise to a friend I'd send her the first hundred pages of my NaNoWriMo novel for Christmas, and none of it is edited. So all for now.
I really need to read that Patrick Ness series...
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to hear your thoughts on Mockingjay. I didn't like it, even though I really enjoyed the first two books.