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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Diary Entry #0051: New Year, New Books a.k.a. My Most Anticipated 2016 Releases (Part 1)

It's a new year and I thought I should do something new in my bookworm diary, too. I remember planning to post something about my most anticipated 2016 book releases before last year ended and now it's the second day of 2016 already, but I think it's not inexcusable to enjoy the new year via food coma and watching (again and again and again) Taylor Swift's #OOTWMusicVideo, right?

Right.

Anyway, I still thought of posting such diary entry, but there were some problems with that. The biggest one is that some books that are scheduled to be released later this year still don't have covers and some, like the third book of Marie Lu's The Young Elites, still don't have exact release dates. Since I have a mild case of OCD, I didn't want my post to be incomplete and not uniform. I've thought about doing it monthly, too, but the post would be too short and will probably not be worth your time reading. So, I've decided that I'm going to do it quarterly.

Yes, here I am presenting to you my most anticipated books coming out in the next three months!
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Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1) 
by Susan Dennard
Date of Publication: January 5th 2016
Synopsis:
On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery”, a magical skill that sets them apart from others.

In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well.

Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires.

Iseult, a Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her—but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart. Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast into one of reckless adventure, where she is a cool, wary balance to Safi’s hotheaded impulsiveness.

Safi and Iseult just want to be free to live their own lives, but war is coming to the Witchlands. With the help of the cunning Prince Merik (a Windwitch and ship’s captain) and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge, the friends must fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch.

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Diary Entry #0050: Best 15 of 2015

We've reached the last day of the year again and it's time for listing the bests of 2015. For a bookworm like me, I think 2015 has been really great because I read a lot of 5-star worthy books. Last year, I posted my Best 14 of 2014. Listing the top 14 books out of the 190+ I read was hard, trust me. This year, I read 170 books (excluding those I re-read) and one might think it will be easier to pick my top reads with, err...fewer choices, but it's not. It was just as hard!

So, like last year, I listed down (in no particular order) all the books I gave 5 stars to and I tried to narrow it down to 15. If you haven't read some of the books in this list, I hope you trust me enough to check them out and give them all a try.

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The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy, #2)
by Marie Rutkoski 

Full of lies, treachery and deceit, The Winner's Crime kept me at the edge of my seat throughout the book. It didn't have the...curse that most 2md-book-in-a-series get where the plot dies down, no. This book was thrilling and set a perfect precedent for what will surely be a mind-blowing finale.
Read my review here.

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Things We Know By Heart
by Jessi Kirby

Things We Know By Heart is achingly sweet, hopeful and heartbreaking. It has the perfect blend of familial and romantic love and left me believing in fate stronger than ever. Sometimes, when you read a book you just know in your heart that you're going to remember it forever. This book is one of those.
Read my review here.