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My Year in Books

It is the last day of 2016. It seems that many are very ready for this year to be over and I can't say that I disagree. This year has been filled with a lot of craziness but it has moved so quickly that I am not sure I am ready for it to be 2017 quite yet. One positive of this year is that I read a lot of good books this year and want to share some of my favorites of 2016 in this post.

These are not in a particular order but I will start with Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. This is a sci-fi thriller and had a lot of interesting twists that kept it interesting from start to finish. Dark Matter has an interesting twist on the do over plot. What if you had the ability to go back to a certain point in your life and change a decision that you made?

Another book that I loved in the sci-fi genre was The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks. This is book number 4 in the Lightbringer series and there will be at least one more. It took a lot of prompting from my husband to get me to read this series but I have really loved it. Brent Weeks does a wonderful job of creating his world and all the characters within.

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach is a really interesting story. Though this book is fiction it is written as though it is the diary of Ivan who is a teenage resident at Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children. This had a similar feel to The Fault In The Stars.


A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas was probably my favorite book from the last year. I have loved all of her books so far but this has been my favorite and I am so excited for the next installment to come out next year! This is a young adult book but does not have that feel and I really love the world that the author has created.


First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips was the book that I was most looking forward to this last year. I love the Stars series and was so excited to read another installment especially to find cameo's of Phoebe from It Had To Be You. I have been a long time SEP fan and this book lived up to expectations.

A book that I was inspired to read because of a review by Susan Elizabeth Phillips was We Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun and Susan Mullen. This book is set in the 80's and is a love story set in letters back and forth between best friends. It was a super quick read that I couldn't put down.

I will end here even though this is only my list of favorites over the last 6 months. I honestly did not realize how many books I fell in love with in 2016. This was a good year for books and I look forward to all of the new releases in 2017. Happy New Year everyone!






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