Faves of 2011... So Far!! (Day 2)

DAY TWO: the characters (& the covers)

Hosted by: Inkcrush

I really tried to not repeat like I didn't in the first one, but picking characters was so much harder because the same one kept popping in my head!!!

1. best female POV...  Aura from Shift and Shade series, I really like her voice and those books.

2. best male POV... I love Adam from Where She Went so freaking much!!

3. Best couple <3... No contest with this one, hands down Forever (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 3) has the best couple (Sam and Grace), and semi-couple (Isabel and Cole) =P

4. who i so want to be best friends with... April from Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have).

5. who i fell completely in love with (new literary crush)... FOUR!!!! From Divergent (Divergent Trilogy) seriously, crushing hard on him *swoon* ... see also Noah from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and other Swoon Listed hehe

6. worst (best) villian... From A Need So Beautiful, she is so mysterious and we still don't know what she wants?!?!

7. best character twist (who you loved then hated or vice versa)... all the Goddess Test characters, I flip flopped opinions on most of them haha

8. best kick-arse female... Rose from Vampire Academy has one of the best voices and snark ever.

9 best kick-arse male... Dimitri also from Vampire Academy, also on Swoon List.

10. broke your heart the most... Conrad from the Summer series, so tormented! Swoon Listed.

11. best/worst character names... I would say weirdest would be Elder from Across the Universe, while I loved the character his name really bothered me, along with Etienne (Anna and the French Kiss). I liked calling him St. Clair because I just feel silly saying Etienne, like I am trying to be hoity toity, though if I could pull it off maybe I would like it more! Best name => Aura, from Shade and Shift, love that name.

BONUS: 5 fave covers (from books i have read)...

Faves of 2011... So Far!!

DAY ONE: the books

Hosted by: Inkcrush

I am going to try not to repeat and put books in one category, but for the most part, a lot of them fall into different ones.

1. favourite book read so far in 2011... I actually answered this question last, it's so hard to pick one favorite, but based on how many times I waned to say a book as the winner, I picked my favorites and they are A Need So Beautiful and Divergent.

2. most powerful book... Grace, this story just really hit me and it was so honest and real.

3. brilliantly funny... no competition (since I mostly read very dramatic stuff this year) Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have), with a commendation to the He's So Not Worth It series for having Annie's notes in the book.

4. best ache-y, heart-breaking, tear-jerker read... I am a big emotional nut, so a lot of the books that won other categories fall into this one as well, but I am choosing Paradise and Where She Went.

5. most beautiful story... A Need So Beautiful is one of the most surprising and most beautiful/haunting stories of a girl that doesn't want to be forgotten.

6. delicious rainy day comfort read... The Summer I Turned Pretty Series just has everything you could want, romance, drama, two hot boys!

7. adrenalin-fuelled, unputdownable award... Divergent (Divergent Trilogy) FTW!!! I am not kidding when I say I read this from 9 am to 10 pm in one day! But I have to give a second place in this one, because The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was pretty hard to put down as well.

8. the beautiful prose award... because she is probably the best and most beautiful writer that I have enjoyed reading this much: Forever (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 3) and the whole Shiver series.

9. most atmospheric and vivid setting... Playing Hurt takes place in the beautiful mountains, and was described so vividly, loved that.

10. i-so-want-to-go-there award... Paris, of course because of both Anna and the French Kiss and Die For Me.

11. most original and imaginative... Across the Universe, I had never read much Sci-Fi but I think this story was very original and different!

12. best under-appreciated, hidden gem book... These would be the indies: Between the Lines, Songbird,  and In the Storm.

13. i-had-no-idea-i-would-love this-so award... Forgive My Fins the cover nor the blurb in the back drew my attention, but after reading a review for it I picked it up and loved it!! Also, A Need So Beautiful was very unexpected.

14. most haunting story... because this really did happen in the past, maybe not the exact story, but Between Shades of Gray for the fact that humanity would allow this to happen to a family.

15. outside my comfort zone but gosh how i loved it... I am really liking the new greek mythology thing so Falling Under, Starcrossed, and  The Goddess Test (Harlequin Teen) where very different from my usual.

16. series that i’m loving... Vampire Academy! Just read the first one yesterday and I can't wait to read the rest!!

17. most memorable voice award... many of them, but I will go with A Need So Beautiful again.

18. completely awesome premise award... Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy) has the best premise of all dystopian, and the way society handles it, I believe is pretty realistic. 

19. would make the best movie... Nightshade series! There is action, rebellions, and a love triangle. Also, Divergent and Possession! The boys of both are just so *sigh*

20. want to re-read already... Shade and Shift by Jeri Smith Ready because I don't want to forget a single thing for when book 3 comes out!!


Special Mentions:
Angelfire (Angelfire - Trilogy) 
Unearthly
Delirium
Fall for Anything 
Ghost and the Goth 
and for romance = anything Sarah Maclean!