Top 10 of 2012: Best Book Boyfriends

This event is co-hosted by Rachel from Fiktshun, Lisa from A Life Bound By Books, Jessica from Confessions of a Bookaholic, Jaime from Two Chicks on Books and Mindy from Magical Urban Fantasy Reads.

BEST BOOK BOYFRIENDS

A book wouldn't be complete without a smoking hot book boyfriend. The list is only supposed to be from books released in 2012 but I'm gonna do a little rule breaking. Also, I'm only going to have five on the list. It's a coveted spot that I don't give away so easily. So without further ado...



The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Augustus Waters

No one trumps Augustus Waters. Him and crooked smile and his unlit cigarette and jokes and his Genie wish and his overdone picnic that was Romantic, but not romantic. I know he's unrealistic but that isn't going to stop me from wishing he was. 



Obsidian- The Lux (1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Daemon Black

Daemon is all kinds of ass- jackass, smartass and definitely one smoking hot piece of ass. I'm a bit late to hop in on the bandwagon but better late than never, right? I don't usually enjoy sci-fi/alien type fiction. I find them boring and unexciting. But I don't know what it was about Lux th- ok fine, it was Daemon. He's that hot.

Shadowfever- Fever (5) by Karen Marie Moning

Jericho Z. Barrons

Dayuuuum. Barrons is just... Sigh. He is hard, inhuman and brilliant. He is one of the most complicated, yet simple men ever. And him and Mac is probably one of the cutest, hottest, best couple in the world. I loved seeing Mac make him tick and it's just so damn entertaining. Thank you, Ms Moning for giving us Barrons.

The Raven Boys - The Raven Cycle (1) by Maggie Stiefvater

Richard "Dick" Campbell Gansey

Gansey is a true Aglionby boy- ridiculously rich, radiating confidence, power and completely obsessed with the supernatural, with waking the sleeping Glendower. He can be very flippant about money, which offends Adam like you wouldn't believe. But being rich isn't his fault and he never means it. Shut up, Adam. You're just a jealous, horrible friend.

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Étienne St. Clair

He is the cutest, most adorable ever. He's funny, smart, part American (mum), part French (dad) but he has a British accent (lived there) . Whaaat. He is a bit short, though but his personality towers over everyone else.

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Top 10 of 2012: Best Book Covers

This event is co-hosted by Rachel from Fiktshun, Lisa from A Life Bound By Books, Jessica from Confessions of a Bookaholic, Jaime from Two Chicks on Books and Mindy from Magical Urban Fantasy Reads.

BEST BOOK COVERS

They all look so pretty. Look at them, calling me, enchanting me. I am not ashamed to say that I judge most books by their covers. If publishers really want me to read their books, then they would at least make an attempt to get me interested and excited for it. I haven't read most of the books on here (only the first row) but they look awesome enough that I would really want to. (I'm still having trouble keeping my hands off of The Lost Prince. I hated the first two books of Iron Fey series but The Lost Prince looks fantastic enough that I'm willing to finish off Iron Fey just so I can read it. But I won't. I won't. I won't.)

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Top 10 of 2012: Best Books I've Read in 2012

This event is co-hosted by Rachel from Fiktshun, Lisa from A Life Bound By Books, Jessica from Confessions of a Bookaholic, Jaime from Two Chicks on Books and Mindy from Magical Urban Fantasy Reads.

BEST BOOKS OF 2012

                                                               Cinder

Reviews:            The Immortal Rules   The Raven Boys

        Shadowfever               Feed              Tiger Lily    .  ....

Best Book of 2012

The Fault In Our Stars
Yeah, yeah. I know it's probably on a hundred other readers' list. Not exactly the most original but it is the most amazing book I've read this year. I don't even understand how John came up with this awesomeness.

2012 is almost over and it's been a great year for books. I discovered Goodreads this year and thank goodness for that. Without it, I wouldn't even have heard of half the books I've read and loved. 

What's the best book you've read this year?

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Review: The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater

Title: The Raven Boys
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle (1)
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Release Date: 18 September 2012
Date Read: October 2012
Rating: ★★★★★

I have been eagerly waiting for this book for a long while. I was really scared that the hype and my expectations would fail the book. I had pretty high expectations for this one, which is weird since Scorpio Races was the only book I've read by her, and I didn't even like it. But I still thought Raven Boys was going to be brilliant.

And it was.

With the first couple of chapters, it is evident that we are dealing with things Bigger things, otherworldly things. The Raven Boys was influenced by a lot of Welsh folk lore, which I wasn't familiar with at all. But I had no trouble keeping up with the story. It was refreshingly different.

Blue Sargent belongs to a family of psychics. They deal in the ethereal; Tarot card readings, scryings. Blue leads an eccentric life and she has been the subject to countless of readings. Blue amplifies the energy around her and her family's talent, but she isn't actually a psychic herself. Every year on St Mark's Eve, Blue stands alongside her mother by the churchyard to wait the arrival of the spirits of the soon-to-be-dead walk the corpse road and every year, she sees nothing- until this year. She sees a boy, Gansey, dressed in Aglionby school uniform, emerge from the dark.

"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve, Blue. Either you're his true love...or you killed him."

Blue is then sucked into a world of mystery she never expected to be solving with the Aglionby boys, the raven boys. But she must be careful to guard her heart for as long as she can remember, Blue has been told that "If Blue was to kiss her true love, he would die."

Before I go any further, I just want to make it clear that The Raven Boys is not a romance. This whole true love's kiss thing was all but non-existent in the novel. Oh, I'm sure it will be of extreme importance later on in the series, and I can't wait to read about it then. But Raven Boys was not a romance. It was a mystery at its core- with ley lines, Latin-speaking trees, ghosts, murderers and one hell of a hunt. Gansey, the leader of the Raven Boys, is obsessed with finding and waking the resting place of the sleeping king, Glendower. The person to do so will be granted a favour.

The story starts out in Blue's perspective, but it is actually told through third person, omniscient, which is necessary considering the epic story that Raven Boys is and the numerous characters it involves. Gansey is a true Aglionby boy- ridiculously rich, radiating confidence, power and completely obsessed with the supernatural, with waking the sleeping Glendower. He wants nothing more than to find his purpose and to prove that he's more than his money and his name. Adam works hard to keep the partial scholarship he received to study in Aglionby. He wants to earn a life outside of what he knows and to become his own man. Ronan, a ghost of his former self after the traumatic loss of his father. Noah is a troubled soul, shy and timid, but he knows a lot more than he lets on. Each boy had complex characters. They were difficult to understand at the beginning, and I still have trouble now. But it was so interesting to see layer after layer peel off, to see them at their core. And Stiefvater is not done showing us who these raven boys really are. The camaraderie between these boys are so deep and complicated. It's like they went to war and back together. This raw brotherly bond was one- if not the strongest thing in the book. Each one tore me up and broke my heart in the duration of the book. It was brilliant.

The pace of the book was slow, especially at the beginning. Stiefvater took her time setting everything up and I admit, I was a little frustrated of the things she revealed and dangled in my face that wasn't resolved in this book. But I honestly wouldn't have it any other way. It just makes waiting for the next book better and harder and ohmygod everyone needs to read this.

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