Stealing the "Best I've Read 2010" theme from Mundie Mom's, I decided to share some of my personal favorites from the past year.
I remember composing this list for 2009, and it had amazing titles on it like
Shiver,
Need, The Pace and
Beautiful Creatures. So what about 2010... did it live up to my expectations? Yes and no.
The sequels to some of the 2009 titles that I loved so much were disappointing. Other than
Beautiful Darkness (which I haven't read yet), I found round II of these books far less engaging than the original. But I found some new titles -- which are sure to be the first in their own series -- that captured by attention in 2010.
For instance, I loved
Firelight by Sopie Jordan.
White Cat by Holly Black was awesome.
And
My Soul to Keep by Rachel Vincent was one of those sequel books that DIDN'T disappoint.
Other than that, I don't know that I was really "wow"ed by anything. I read a whole bunch of good books, don't get me wrong, but not all that many that knocked it out of the park. In the interest of full disclosure, I've only just started
The Eternal Ones and haven't yet open
Paranormalcy, both of which I expect to be excellent. (Here's hoping anyway.)
What about you...
how do you think 2010 faired in new titles? What did I miss that would've turned my whole opinion of the year around?
7 comments:
Love your Best Read List. Do you have a Sleeper Good Reads List? You know of books you didn't expect to be so good :-D
Ha! I generally don't read a book unless I expect it to be great. Although Draw the Dark was even better than I expected. :)
I haven't read these. Yet. :-)
Have you read Ship Breaker? If you like post-apocalyptic stories, it's a must read.
thanks, @writesbymoonlight - I'll have to check that one out
I enjoyed Crescendo and the Healing Spell. Have the White Cat on my table to read.
I loved The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. It was awesome. Check it out.
Lisa ~ YA Literature Lover
Love this! Slip an agent down the tree for me too!!!
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