Best books I read this year...

It's over, 2014 IS OVER.

This is going to be a long one, seeing the number of 5 stars I've given.
But yeah, all these books were shining stars in the dark, scary night of a 2014.
Not all books were published this year, I just read them in 2014.
In the order I read them in....

MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2014 ARE...
1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

2. Choker by Elizabeth Woods

3. Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld

4. This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

5. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

7. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

8. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

10. If I Stay by Gayle Forman

11. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

12. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

13. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

14. We Were Liars by E.Lockheart

15. Blankets by Craig Thompson

16. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

17. The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

THIS. BOOK. WOW. I MEAN. IT'S SO. WOW.
As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. 

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. 
No Word I say can capture the feelings this book made me feel. "Never Let Me Go" changed me with just 300 pages. It was subtle, moving and chilling.
But more than anything, everything about the story was so, so, sad. Imagine being resigned to a fate that you don't deserve, something that's so very unfair. Imagine not being allowed even the possibility of something more. That's Kathy's life, always knowing that she'll have to give herself up before she's even lived her life to the fullest.
Don't expect the usual elements of Sci-fi or Dystopian fiction. when you open the book, because it doesn't exactly fit any of these.Kathy and Tommy's love, though not the most important part of the story, is so touching, I wanted everything to be okay for them and I rooted for them so badly. Even Ruth made me cry.
I always find it so much harder to write about the books I love.
After reading the book, I immediately watched the movie adaptation, and it was beautiful.
(better read the book before you go further)

5 STARS

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