2012 end of year survey

okay so Jamie from Perpetual Page Turner is doing this end of year survey and i just had to join in too!
1. Best Book You Ever Read in 2012? (can be  broken down by genre)
honestly there is no way anyone could pick just one!
ROMANCE: Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
CONTEMPORARY: Pushing The Limits by Katie McGarry
FOUND FUNNY: Half Blood by Jennifer L Armentrout
STEAM PUNK: The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
there are lots more! too  many to count!

2. Book You Were excited about and thought you were going to love but didnt?
Struck by Jennifer Bosworth honestly i loved the concept and the blurb and the cover but when it came to reading it the story seemed to drag on way to long and really got on my nerves

3. Most surprising (in a good way) book of 2012?
the most surprising book would had to have been The end of the nightshade trilogy wolfsbane and bloodrose they were very different and exciting from the first book and i found it very heart-throbbing to read

4.Book You Have Recommended most to people in 2012?
there are three this year that i absolutely have gone oh you must read
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
and Eve by Anna Carey

5.best series you discovered in 2012?
 Eve by Anna Carey and The Steam Punk Chronicles by Kady Cross

6.Best New Authors You Discovered in 2012?
Stephanie Perkins, Marissa Meyer, Veronica Rossi, Anna Carey, Tahereh Mafi, Megan Miranda, Wendy Higgins, Claire LaZebnik, Kady Cross, Jennifer L Armentrout, Katie McGarry and Lisa M Basso. just to name a few!

7. Best Book that was out of your comfort zone or was a new genre for you?
North Of Beautiful by Justine Chan Headly all though it took me a long time to read this is one of those ones that was out of the fantasy region and definitely touched my heart.

8.most thrilling unputtable down book?
The Selection by Keira Cass that was possibly the quickest book i have ever read and it was good

9.Favourite Book Covers of 2012?

this one doesn't relate to the book as much but
is still very cool!!!!

10.Most Memorable Character in 2012?
everytime someone asks me what is your favourite character it seems hard to pick and all the authors make all the guys sound the best i tend to just go back to the same one and that would be Juliette from Shatter Me the first book i read this year. she seems to have that powerful voice that she doesn't realise she is so vulnerable in the start but at the end she is more powerful.

11. Most beautifully written book in 2012?
Now most beautifully written normally means i have cried at the end and there were a few this year and it is really hard to pick this one because i didnt cry yet it was inspiring this book is Between The Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer.

12. book had the greatest impact on you in 2012?
Its hard to say what had impact you was big until you remember every page/line of a book still thinking what made that book so special and this book truly does this its yet again Between The lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

13.  Book you couldn't believed you waited until 2012 to read?
Legend by Marie Lu. thaat books was amazing and yet i am still waiting for the sequel!! and Half Blood By Jennifer L Armentrout.

14. Favourite Quote/Passage from a book you read in 2012?

15.Shortest book and Longest book you read in 2012?
Shortest: Entangled by Nikki Jefford 142 pages
Longest: Insurgent by Veronica 525 pages

16.Book That Had A Scene in it that had you reeling and dying to talk to somebody about it?
a)i keep talking about this scene but its the scene from the city of bones and its when clary and jace are told that they are brother and sister and you just go how can you do that??
b) the next scene its very different its the scene from the selection where aspen goes to america i dont want you to have my life i want you to go and stay with the prince an then breaks up with her and thats only within the first 50 pages i was heart broken and dint know how maxon would live up to aspen.

17.Favourite relationship from a book in 2012? (can be romantic, friendship etc)
that would have to be america and maxon from the selection its such a great friendship and its an even better relationship.

18.Favourite Book you read from an author you have previously read from?
that book would be the pledge by Kimberley Derting. i honestly didn't like her third book but i liked this book way better than her other series!

19.Best Book You Read that you read solely on a recommendation in 2012?
 there are lots of books i have read on recommendation like hush hush and the tigers curse but this year there weren't many that i hadn't already read but this one, this one was a joy and wonder to read its epic fail by claire lazebnik

LOOKING FORWARD TO 2013
1.one book you didn't get to in 2012 but will definitely get to in 2013? (before someone kills you over it)
that would probably be a0 sweet venom by tera lynn childs, b) the giirl of fire and thorns or c) the city of lost souls all books sitting on my bookshelf at the moment yet to be opened .

2.Books Most Anticipating for 2013
i have a bout a hundred but i just give you 26!
a) The Elite by Keira Cass b) Isla and The Happily Ever by Stephanie Perkins c) Of Triton by Anna Banks d) The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead e) Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi f) the girl with the iron Touch by Kady Cross g) Scarlet by Marissa Meyer h) The Rising by Kelly Armstrong i) Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter j) Untitled by veronica roth k) Shadow of The Mark by Leigh Fallon l) Goddess by Josephine Angelini m)Through the  Ever Night by Veronica Rossi n) Shadows of Silence by Courtney Allison Moulton o) Appolyon by Jennifer L Armentrout p) Rise by Andrea Cremer q) The lives we lost by Megan Crewe r) Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza s) a natural born angel by scott speer t) Mind Games by Kierstan White u) the program by Suzanne Young v) Taken by Erin Bowman w) the summer i became a nerd by Leah rae Miller x) a Blood Kissed Sky by J.a London y) Sweet Peril by Wendy Higgins z) School spirit by Rachel Hawkins

3.One thing You Hope To accomplish or do in reading/blogging in 2013?
sorry long speech ahead.
i am/wish to accomplish more in blogging by starting with a new review system to fit my likings and my dislikes to write reviews on all books good bad and ugly, to score some interviews wit authors i have just read books of and discuss with them how their books came to be and to create new segments and to have some fun and not be clogged with homework.

Happy New Year hope you enjoyed christmas look out on 1/1/2013 for my blog post on the top 50 books i read in 2012.

Hugs and Wishes

Candi

A Shimmer of Angels

well i havent read a good angel book in a while now since all the sequels to stuff like Halo, Hush Hush and Fallen were pretty miserable and really bad but this angel book, A Shimmer of Angels by +Lisa M Basso shows promise and excitement to what comes forward afterwards (lets just hope it not a hill falling to the pits). I discovered this book through my ebook collection supplied by netgalley, i suggest it to all YA readers looking for a new angel thing to read., this book will be released in january 2013. Lisa M Basso enchants you into her exicting stories with just a little bit of that angel magic she has.

A Shimmer of Angels is all about Rayna, a girl who spent 3 years in a medical ward because her father thought she that she could see angels! once she's out of this clinic it only takes her three weeks until she sees another one in her classroom and she starts to think this angel s behind all the suicides at this school but whilst she is trying to prove that she gets to know him a little bit more and starts to understand how his type of angels work but there is another type of angel the fallen ones the ones that have created human emotions and have had to fall because they are evil and now under the influence of lucifer but rayna meets one that isnt what they are and happens to have fallen in  love with her mother before she died he wants to help her with the murders too and figure out why she can see angels both type of angels.but with two angels from different sides that hate each other they just cant seem to get along unless they are taking care of rayna. but as the prom comes up something big happens and rayna cant help her friends and may need some angelic help from both sides.

i loved this because it had all the new twists and turns that most top authors dont have. AMAZING!

great book hope to bring you more exicting books this christmas.

Merry Christmas!!!

Hugs and Wishes

Candi

Pushing the Limits

So has been very busy with ebooks not so much real paperbacks (must get back to that) but i do know this one is out already and is available to all of you. first let me tell you the first part is all action guy stuff the second part is all lovey dovey heart throbbing/breaking part and neither of them in a bad way. i loved it. i really enjoy debut author katie mcgarry's spin n the ya hit fiction.but do you know what katie's story actually relates to people out there that do/did get bullied and teased because of facial blemishes and scars all over them.
so pushing the limits is Echo's and Noah's story about each of their lives and how messed up they are but  how they each handle it very differently. Echo's story was about how her brother had died in Afghanistan  her mother was bipolar and had tried to kill her and her father and step mom pushing her to do her best to get into business school so she could continue on her dad's career, she was not allowed to take art classes and she had to go to the school counselor to talk about her problems and try and solve the blank spot in her mind. Noah's story is a little different both his parents died in a fire and he was separated from his own brothers and from there he has tried to remain the same kid he was before but since sophomore year he has been drinking pot, smoking cigarettes and working at a cheesy take away store n the mall. that is until Noah and Echo meet. Echo has never broken the rules but desperately wants to find out what in her file. Noah has never liked a girl enough to hang around but this uptight stubborn girl might just be the one to break it.

it goes up and down from there what will happen to Echo? what will happen to Noah? you know i don't give spoilers so you are just going to have to read it this time. I have to say it might sound really bad the way i am reviewing it but let me tell you i cried and i laughed and i screamed at it those are all pretty good signs this is a good book

Hugs and Wishes

Candi