- The Traitor Queen - Trudi Canavan (January)
- A great end to a great two trilogies. See "Reading the last book in a series"
- Divergent - Veronica Roth (January)
- Simply written, pacy plot and likable heroine. Every teen needs to read this book. And every young adult. Especially hunger games fans as it is another dystopian novel.
- The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes (Feb-March)
- Quite poignant. A hard read at times and place, especially when Barnes gets very philosophical. Got this free from uni in freshers week. A satisfying end and a poignant commentary on the consequences of your actions as a young adult and how they can impact your last years.
- Insurgent - Veronica Roth (7th March - 18th March)
- Fantastic, simple written and quick paced, much as its prequel 'Divergent' , but the plot thickens and gains more substance, as well as character profiles deepening.
- Longbourne - Jo Baker ( 25th March-19th April)
- A brilliant insight into the world of Pride and Prejudice, linking the events of the novel to the lives of those downstairs.
- The Kingmaker's Daughter - Philipa Gregory (22nd April - 20th May)
- See review of 'The Cousin's War' series
- Preistess of the White - Trudi Canavan (21st May - 13th June)
- As always amazing writing from Trudi Canavan! Start of a new series for me, safe to say I will be reading the next two books once I allow myself to buy them!
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (15th June - 25th June)
- Definitely one of the best classics I've read. Didn't quite beat Pride and Prejudice of Jane Eyre though.
- The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (25th June - 27th June)
- So compelling. So sad. But so well written, Bravo Mr Green.
- Deception Point - Dan Brown (29th June - 2nd July)
- Fabulous as Dan Brown always is as he seamlessly merges science and fiction to make for a thrilling read. As a geographer I particularly enjoyed this book's theme of scientific deception.
- Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, book 2) - George R R Martin ( 4th July - 11th July)
- Admittedly I began reading this from 45% (Kindle!) where I had abandoned it a year or two ago, having not found it as compelling as 'Game of Thrones'. It was not so this time! I don't know if I was in the right place for reading fantasy or if I have just matured as a reader, but the second half of this book did not disappoint!
- The Appeal - John Grisham (14th July - 22nd July (Gave up! )
- See my blog on dumping a book! A bit disappointing after having read other Grisham novels :(
- A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (23rd July - 29th July)
- So good. It wasn't entirely as I expected it to be but it was so great, and I definitely agree with one of the quotes about the book which called it "Twilight for grown ups" - I do love twilight, but this book had a level of maturity to it and a heroine who was a LOT stronger than Bella Swan (see my blog on 'All Souls Trilogy')
- Shadow of the Night - Deborah Harkness (30th July - 7th August)
- As fabulous as the first of the series. Fabulous twist as revealed in the last pages of 'A Discovery of witches'. Don't want to include spoilers here but the novel was very thoroughly researched and felt really quite believable and alive! (See blog on 'All Souls Trilogy)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte (10th August - 18th September)
- Another good classic about a young woman with a son who becomes misunderstood in her new neighbourhood. Through the medium of her diary we eventually learn her tale of unhappy marriage and how it has shaped where she is today. Took a few chapters to get into the story, but loved it, and had a really great ending.
- Maze Runner - James Dashner (20th September-25th September)
- I am writing this some time after reading this book so I'm not sure that I will do it justice because of that. However it was one of the tensest books I've ever read and keeps you searching for answers the whole way though and constantly ups the game and changed your predictions.
- Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (26th September - 9th October)
- All in all a fantastic book. I have already read this but I needed to read it again before the first mockingjay film came out :)
- Rabbit Back Literature Society (11th October - 3rd January 2015)
- I picked this up from the Waterstones readers club table and it looked really interesting, to be honest it was, and you can see how it can be read, discussed and studied, but its probably not a book that I would read again for fun as there were some very odd bits in it and I genuinely found the ending not particularly satisfying and a bit annoyingly cliche.
- Last of the Wilds - Trudi Canavan ( 4th January- 4th March)
- Trudi Canavan is my favourite author and this is the 2nd of her Age of the White trilogy and it was so consuming and heart-wrenching. She writes fantasy so well and I love how she tells the story from different perspectives but links them together so fluidly; they aren't segmented into their own chapters for each perspective or anything which makes it read really well and you can feel the simultaneity of it all. Fabulous as ever.
- Insurgent - Veronica Roth (6th March - 22nd March)
- Again, this is a book that I was rereading before the film came out, and I loved it even more the second time, noticing small details that I hadn't the first time when I was mainly reading for plot. Its amazing how quickly I read this book again considering that I am at uni with many deadlines!
- Scorch Trials - James Dashner (24th March -26th March)
- The sequel to maze runner, and equally as ever-changing, questioning and brilliantly written. Still left me guessing by the end and I had to break my rule of reading books in the series straight after one another. I finished Scorch trials at about midnight and had to immediately get Death Cure down off of my shelf and read on because I just needed to know!
- Death Cure - James Dashner (27th March-29th March)
- A really great way to 'wrap up' the trilogy. There were many questions to which I did not get answers which was a little disappointing, but with the knowledge that there is a prequel I can let that slide until I read the prequel! The ending was left hanging a little but it was moderately satisfying. There were a few plot points that irked me, for example the need to kill off characters for the sake of it... *spoilers!*
- Despite its annoying lack of wrapping up I 100% reccommend this trilogy, especially for fans of the Hunger Games and Divergent :)
- Allegiant - Veronica Roth (29th March- 16th April)
- FINALLY ANSWERS! is how I felt when I got around to reading this book! I really loved what Roth did with the explanation and how she did it with such uncertainties throughout. Again I had a simliar problem with deaths as with Death Cure but...
- Daisy Miller 16th April - 13th June
- The Ocean at the end of the lane 15th May
Empire of Gold 18th May
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