My Favorite Books of 2016

This year, I read a total of 62 books!  2016 was a pretty good year of reading for me; out of those 62 books, almost all of them were 4 or 5 stars.  However, out of the books I read this year, some stood out more than others.  So here are (in no particular order) my top 9 favorite books that I read in 2016!

1. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

This book had a lot of hype, but I daresay that it lived up to it.  I loved the characters, and the world, and everything else about this book.

2. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

This book can be described in one word: badass.  Not what I was expecting at all, but even better.  I definitely would recommend to anyone who is a big fantasy lover.

3. The Alchemists of Loom by Elise Kova

This was an ARC that I read (it comes out in January of 2017).  I love Elise's work, but this book surpassed my highest expectations!  Another great book for my fantasy lovers out there.  See my review.

Top Five(?) Tuesday | 5 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads

Hi everyone :).  Today I thought I would do Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme created by the lovely The Broke and the Bookish!  This week's top ten are 10 of my most recent 5 star reads, but I decided to only do my most recent 5, because 10 seemed like too much (work lol).

*Disclaimer: I'm a pretty easy-to-please reader, so I give out 5 stars pretty often.  However, I always rate books truthfully, so these recent 5-star reads are all ones that I absolutely love and definitely recommend!!

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR #1)

Synopsis: When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it... or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!

Why the 5 stars?: Okay so technically I haven't finished this one yet but I'm so in love with it so far that there's no way that this isn't going to be a 5-star.  Beauty and the Beast re-tellings are my weakness...

Book Review | Winter by Marissa Meyer

Title: Winter
Author: Marissa Meyer
Publication: November 10th 2015 by Feiwel and Friends
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #4
Pages: 824
Genre: Fantasy, Re-Telling, YA
Copy: Hardcover, Gifted
Summary: Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.

Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.

Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?