I decided to do a reading challenge this year. If you want to read about it you can check out my post from January here. Anyways I've done quite a bit of reading since then so I figured it was time for an update!
Ok the first book I'm going to discuss is the Orphan Master's Son. I was reading this book when I made my last reading challenge post. I have mixed feelings about this book. I did enjoy the idea behind the book and the book overall but I did feel lost a few times. While I feel the author did go into detail I had trouble following. It was definitely a good book and I liked it but I have a feeling I missed out on a lot of the story. I would still recommend this book though because it is a good read and is different than anything else I've ever read. Sorry I don't have much to say about this book.
The next book I read was Divergent. I am in love with this book! I first heard about this series when I saw the preview for the first movie a year or so ago, whenever it was it came out. I was not interested. It seemed like another movie aimed at teens that is set way in the future. While my husband and I were on vacation back in January it happened to be on TV. I saw part of it before I fell asleep and I was getting hooked. I knew finding a book that was 500+ pages to read was going to have to be something really good if I planned on finishing it. I was looking on my kindle for the next book to read and this popped up on sale. I had been thinking about it since I had just seen part of the movie and decided to download the sample. I was hooked from the beginning. Now I am dying to see the whole movie! I don't know if I want to read the other books. I am not into all the action/war stuff. I liked reading about choosing factions and things like that. Anyways I definitely recommend this to anyone that hasn't read it.
I had been talking to my friend about how I love mysteries. She recommend I read something by Mary Higgins Clark. So as soon as I finished Divergent I started looking through her books to see what sounded good. There were tons to choose from but I decided on You Belong to Me. It's about a serial killer who kills women on cruises. I've never been on a cruise and honestly never planned on going one after hearing so many horror stories, and this probably didn't help. However all the women were alone on these cruises and no way would I ever go on a cruise alone so I guess I'm safe. Anyways! It was definitely good but started out pretty slow. What I liked was the author was definitely trying to narrow it down to a few people for you. I didn't even try to guess because I knew I would get it wrong. I definitely like this book and will probably read more of her books in the future.
P.S. I could not stop singing Taylor Swift every time I read the title of the book!
P.S. I could not stop singing Taylor Swift every time I read the title of the book!
Last but not least is the book The Selection. I was in Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago and saw this book on display. To be honest I just thought the cover looked pretty. I noticed the cover said something about a competition with 35 girls. I decided as soon as I was done with You Belong to Me I would download this book. The best way to describe this book is Divergent/Hunger Games meets the Bachelor. I actually really enjoyed this book. There wasn't too much I didn't like. It is YA so it was easy to read which is always nice. The story was set in the future and the United States is now called Illea and the population is broken up into castes. The Selection is a competition hosted by the royal family to find the prince a wife. The only problem was it ended in a strange place. Which means I'm probably going to have to read the second book in the series to find out what happens next!
Here is the list of what I've read so far and what I'm reading now!
A classic romance
A book that became a movie
A book published this year
A book with a number in the title
A book written by someone under 30
A book with nonhuman characters
A funny book
A book by a female author
A book with a one word title
A book of short stories A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet: Southern Stories of Faith, Family, and Fifteen Pounds of Bacon//currently reading
A book set in a different country Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate//currently reading
A nonfiction book
A popular authors first book
A book from an author that you love that you haven't read yet
A book based on a true story
A book at the bottom of your to-read list
A book your mom loves
A book that scares you
A book more than 100 years old
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
A memoir
A book you can finish in a day
A book with antonyms in the title
A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
A book that came out the year you were born
A book with bad reviews
A trilogy
A book from your childhood
A book with a love triangle
A book set in the future
A book set in high school
A book with a color in the title
A book that made you cry
A book with magic
A book you own but have never read
A book that takes place in your hometown
A book that was originally written in a different language
A book set during Christmas
A book written by an author with your same initials
A play
A banned book
A book based on or turned into a TV show
A book you started but never finished