Welcome to the third and last day of my blogoversary! I hope you enjoyed reading my other two posts!
Today I want to celebrate all my favorite books of the year because everyone needs to read them. They are not limited to books releasing this year, but can also be books released before 2014 that I now just read.
Just a note, this list is in no particular order because how can we choose?
Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
First of all, Frank Freakin’ Porter is mine. Remember that, mine. Okay, now that I’ve got that cleared, we can move on. Those of you who know me very well know that contemporaries aren’t usually my thing. Contemporaries usually bore me to death, but guys, I absolutely loved, loved, loved Since You’ve Been Gone. This book has friendships, it has romance, it has realistic struggles, and it has ALL THE FEELS. Like seriously, I had to stop reading Since You’ve Been Gone when I was 25% into the book and just wonder how Morgan Matson knew exactly what and how I will feel if I was put in Emily’s situation.
Split Second by Kasie West
YOU GUYS. THIS BOOK. THIS BOOK. -waves around Split Second frantically.- You guys just HAVE TO read this book! Not only is there two swoony guys that I still can’t choose between (and I read this book all the way back in February), but there are also tons of sweet moments in Split Second that made me squeal like a crazy person. Honestly, I didn’t really see the appeal of Kasie West’s books until Split Second came along. Split Second was the book that made me change my mind about Kasie West’s books.
Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley
This book was built for me. I was always interested in books about the military and putting a female character that isn’t wanted there in the military basically screams READ THIS BOOK KELLY YOU NEED THIS BOOK DESPERATELY at me. There were a lot of things that could go wrong in a book like this, but surprisingly, Rites of Passage was perfect. In fact, I love Rites of Passage so much that when I was looking up quotes to use in my review for it, I couldn’t help but have a wide goofy grin on my face when I read anything from the book.
In A Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis
I knew I would love In A Handful of Dust when I first saw that Mindy McGinnis was writing it. How could I not love it when I really enjoyed Mindy McGinnis’ debut novel, Not A Drop To Drink, you know, the book that nearly broke me? I’m happy to report that In A Handful of Dust is just as good as its predecessor and will leave you wanting MORE like its predecessor.
Cress by Marissa Meyer
One word: Thorneeeee. Or maybe even three words: Throne is mine. But seriously, if you haven’t read Cress or The Lunar Chronicles series yet, you are definitely missing out on some epicness, laughter, Sailor Moon action, and tears. What are you waiting for, grab a copy already!
Also, what are your favorite books that you’ve read in 2014? I want some recommendations!
So, moving on to part two of this post. What are some of my most anticipated 2015 favorite releases?
Hint: You have to play a Cover Guessing Game to find out! But don’t worry, the prize is totally worth it.
What can you win?
Just so you guys know, Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson, Winterspell by Claire Legrand, and Cress by Marissa Meyer are all SIGNED by the author. Split Second by Kasie West is sadly not signed.
Now onto the Cover Guessing Game!
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The Rules + Hints:
- The books used in this Book Cover Guessing Game are all young adult books that are released in 2015.
- At first, I wanted to give the prize to the first person who guessed all the above book covers correctly, but I figured that it would be unfair to people in different time zones. Therefore, I will allow Rafflecopter to pick the winner. However, the winner the Rafflecopter picks must have all the correct answers to win or all their entries will be eliminated and I will choose a new winner. Sorry about that, but hey, all the Cover Guessing Game entries are not required. Do the Cover Guessing Game at your own risk.
- Rafflecopter (sometimes) does not let you change your answer once you input your answer in. If you do want to change your answer for any book cover after submitting your old answer to the Rafflecopter, simply email me at whatisakelly(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject “Distract Cover Guessing Game Answer” with your new book cover answer and the name you used to enter the contest.
- If the Rafflecopter does not accept your answers, just email me your answers at whatisakelly(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject “Blogoversary Guessing Game.”
Good luck everyone & let the guessing game begin! ;D
Terms & Conditions:
- This contest is open INTERNATIONALLY.
- The giveaways will run until November 1, 2014.
- You must be 18 years or older, or have parents’ permission to enter.
- All your entries will be disqualified if you pickup entries for something you haven’t done. (I had to do this for so many of my last giveaways, please don’t make me do this again.)
- If you only use ONE account to do all these tasks and enter under different names, they will still only constitute as ONE entry.
- If the winner does not respond to my e-mail within 48 hours, I will have to choose another winner.
- I am not responsible for any items lost in the mail.
And before you go, don’t forget to stop by my two other posts celebrating my blogoversary!
Second Blogoversary Freakout + THREE Giveaways
Second Blogoversary Day 2: ALL the Friendships + Giveaway
Second Blogoversary Day 3: 2014 MUST Reads + 2015 GIMME THESE Releases + Giveaway
My favorite so far of 2014 has been Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys.
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski and Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins <333
Cress is definitely one of my favorites so far! :D
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White Oleander by Janet Fitch, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.
The Winner’s Curse, Kiss of Deception, Lailah and Unmarked ;)
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This was okay hard. (It took me an hour…) I read so many great books this year, I think I’ll stick with 2014 releases.
Blood of Olympus (I’m assuming will go here) Iron Trials, Cress, Dreams of Gods and Monsters, City of Heavenly Fire, Young Elites, & Last Changeling.
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This cover guessing game wasn’t easy at all, but I like it this way… It’s funnier if it’s hard to find the answers! I think I have guessed 6 out 12 books but I’m not so sure anymore! xD
The best books I’ve read in 2014… mmm, this year I finally read Colleen Hoover and I loved every single one of her books (my favourite is Maybe Someday), I also really enjoyed Heir of Fire, Ruin and Rising, Ignite Me, Rebel Belle and Never Fade!
What are YOUR favorite books that you’ve read in 2014?
My favourite books so far have to be the Throne of Glass books and Angelfall <3 Loved them!
My favorite books so far in 2014 have been;
Splintered(I read it at the beginning of the year) & Unhinged by A.G. Howard
The Kiss of Deception
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout
And of course The Lunar Chronicles
All i’m sure you’ve already read.
I loved reading Origin by Jennifer Armentrout, I also loved reading the Legend Series by Marie Lu!!!
My favorite book this year is The Winner’s Curse. I love it so much. This guessing game was a lot easier to me this time around.
Wow, that was actually a lot of fun, plus I now have a list of books that I want to request for review. I have to admit that it was a bit challenging though! My favorite books I’ve read this year are City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett, Songbird by Danielle Jensen, Crushed by Eliza Crewe, Half a King by Joe Abercrombie, and Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson.
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Opposition by Jennifer Armentrout is the top book I read this year, followed closely by The White Rabbit Chronicles (Cole Holland people, he is SMOKIN). I really liked this guessing game, I actually got most of them so far.
OH MY GOD! This took me literally 2 hours to do! Especially number 2!
My favourite books this year were: The Kiss Of Deception, On The Fence, The Distance Between Us, The Selection series, and probably many more.
Some of the books I’ve read this year that surprised me – I didn’t realise how much I would enjoy them – are The Recluse Storyteller by Mark W. Sasse, Disruption by Jessica Shirvington, and The Other Me by Suzanne van Rooyen!
Also, I really enjoyed the cover guessing game and thought it was a good, medium difficulty. I had to search around a bit but I didn’t get too frustrated! :)
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That was hard but I finally got all of them! My favorite book this year was “Jellicoe Road”. I’m really late on reading it but once I did read it it was instantly at the top of my favorites list. I also really liked “Torn Away”. It’s my first Jennifer Brown novel and I love it so much.
Kelly recently posted…Top Ten Books That Were Hard For Me To Read
I found most of them pretty easy (at least easier than some of your other cover guessing games) but holy moly, #10 was SO HARD. What was so frustrating was that I passed the cover several times but only got it right at the end -.- Thanks for the giveaway and Happy Blogoversary!! :D
Rabiah recently posted…Elusion by Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam
I am not even TRYING that cover guessing game. Nope. I think I recognize two… maybe three…
But my favorite book I’ve read this year was probably Code Name Verity. Not a 2014 release, but OH MY SOUL. So good!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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I will have to come back to those covers! Need to give them some thought:)
So hard. So, so hard. I swear, I don’t recognise a single cover, even though that rabbit is totally adorable I don’t remember seeing it before!
I’ve read so many awesome books, but I particularly loved the Throne of Glass series! <3
Ok, srsly?! I didn’t know any of these books…
Anyway, the best book I’ve read this year was THE BOOK THIEF. And I also liked the first book I read this year, THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING, contradicting to your review the past time, I actually liked it.
Thanks for the giveaway and congrats for the years of blogging, Kelly!
Oh, my God! This was really hard, but I loved this game, I found some interesting books to my to-read list! :D But the 10 was the hardest to find… The 2nd and the 8th pictures was easy, they were on my to-read list before this game ;)))
Thanks for the giveaway and Happy Blogoversary! :)))
It was definitely challenging! But I had fun figuring out the answers :) I’m still missing a few but I’ll do my best to find them! As for my favorite books this year, I mostly read last books of a series/trilogy like Dreams of Gods and Monsters, Allegiant, Into The Still Blue, City of Heavenly Fire, and many many other great books and I loved every single one of them! So sad though that my favorite stories and worlds have come to a close.
AHH! This post IS THE BEST :D I would love to win so badly. <3 WINTERSPELL. CRESS. Dies. Signed too :D Ack. Want them so bad, hih. And YAY for Cress being a best book of this year :D So glad you loved it. <3 but hmm. I have read so many amazing books this year. I cannot choose. But best might be Winterspell. <3 And omg. Endsinger by Jay Kristoff. This trilogy is the devil. And so good. Anyway. I was wondering. I can still win though I didn't do the cover guessing game, right? Or must I do that as well to win? Either way, crossing my fingers. :)
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I’m actually starting to enjoy these kind of games :D
My 2014 faves are Heir of fire, Unwind, Cress and The infinite sea (which I just started reading)~
A bit difficult but fun! :)
My favorite books were The WInner’s Curse, The Kiss of Deception, Snow Like Ashes, Heir of Fire, and City of Heavenly Fire!! Thanks for the giveaway <3
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Hard!
My favorite books I have read in 2014 are The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Fault In Our Stars, Divergent and Insurgent. :))
Goodness, this was hard!
As for favourite books that I’ve read this year, that’d probably be Cress (ha!), The Diviners, and All My Puny Sorrows. They are all so good in different ways.
Teresa Santos recently posted…Happy Booktober!
This was so hard! But so addicting at the same time, I couldn’t stop looking for the book covers even though it was driving me insane, ahah.
So far I have LOVED Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson, Open Road Summer by Emery Lord, Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway, and the Divergent series!
Michelle @ Unraveling Books recently posted…Horror October 2014
Wow, that was hard! Quite a few of them I had stared at for awhile and just didn’t see it, then came back later and got it easily. Ugh. lol. Fun challenge though. I think it took me about an hour total! I’m pretty sure I have them all right… :)
woooooohoooooooooo I found all 12!!! So I would say Medium, since the last time you did this I couldn’t find one last one!!! So far my favorite book I read in 2014 is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
My favorite books that I`ve read this year are If I Stay and If you were Italian! :D
Dude, this was crazy-hard. I have no idea what most of those are.
Shae/Shelver @ Shae Has Left The Room recently posted…Cover Love #74
The cover guessing game was a bit on the hard side (it look me almost 2 hours to find all 12), but that made it more fun for me. It would have been a lot less fun if it was easy.
And my favorite book so far this year was definitely City of Heavenly Fire, I was so excited for the last book to finally come out and it was so awesome!
I’m so working on the cover guessing game, and it’s medium so far…time for a break! I’d say my favorite book of 2014 is Divergent! Loved the book and movie :)
I’m pretty proud of myself for getting some answers but I have no idea on the rest! Haha.
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I thought this was going to be hard but it was actually pretty easy! It helps that there isn’t a whole lot of covers to look at!
I have #5 left only, so I would say it was medium difficulty.
I have read so many good books this year:The Witch with no name, Sixth garve on the edge, Ignite me, The Forever song, Isla and the Happily Ever After, Stone of Thieves, Louder than words…
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Favorite books I read was Guy in Real Life, Raven Cycle #1 , Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, A Monster Calls,
Noggin, Ms. Marvel, #3: Side Entrance, Saga, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Five Days Left, Grasshopper Jungle, the Silkworm, Winger, Mr. Mercedes, Legend, Maze Runner, 100 Sideways Miles
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Really, I don’t even care about the giveaway that much, haha. I just want to play this super fun game! A few were kind of harder to find, but I think I finished this quicker than I would’ve thought. Thanks for doing this! I love it!
I suck at these cover guessing games! Lol.
I’ve read a lot of great books this year but my favorite YA reads were Racing Savannah, Breathe, Annie, Breathe and Isla and the Happily Ever After.
THIS IS AWESOME! I TOOK HALF AN HOUR TO FIGURE OUT ALL OF THE ANSWERS!!
MY FAVORITE BOOK THIS 2014 IS ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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Eh. Not too bad. I had to come back and do three of them, but the others were fairly simple. Thanks for the giveaway! I’ve been dying to get my hands on Cress!
Rachelle recently posted…Cover Reveal: Dangerous Deception by Garcia & Stohl
Phew, this took me hella long and I feel so accomplished right now haha. But it was a cool challenge and thanks for the giveaway!<3
My favorite books I've read year must be the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, The 5th Wave and World After by Susan Ee
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Awesome Giveaways!
I have a little problem though, everytime I try put an entry into a giveaway, something comes up saying that my entry was invalid, what should I do?
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This, admittedly, took me hours. But oh my God, the sense of accomplishment after I found all the covers feels amazing. My favourite books of this year would have to be anything by Kasie West (I’m a huge fan of hers), Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, and so many more! :)
Happy Blogversary!
I loved this game, it wasn’t that hard for me this time! :)
This was hard! Especially #3! I think I got it though! And I hope this comment shows up. I already tried once, and it never showed up.
Lisa Loves Literature recently posted…Review: Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle #3) by Maggie Stiefvater
This was really fun but really challenging! I got stuck a few times but got lucky and happened upon the covers and figured it out.
My favorite books I’ve read this year are The Evolution of Mara Dyer and The Dream Thieves.
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Pretty challenging! I found all but two of the covers. =)
Thanks for the giveaway!
Ugh. I feel so bad right now. I don’t recognize any of them. Time to do some research.
This one was freakin hard, woman! I loved every minute of it. I love a good challenge, and you definitely offer up a challenge every time you do one of these. Please keep it up! Thank you so much for the awesome giveaways! More importantly, congrats on your 2nd Blogoversary, and I can’t wait for the next one! Keep those awesome posts coming!!!
Jaime Lester recently posted…Jaime reviews Shattered Souls by Mary Lindsey
This is so fricking hard!
My fave books of this year are : Magic Breaks, Shield of Winter.
Congrats on 2 years of blogging! :)
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My favorite book that I’ve read this year is ‘If I Stay’
Since You’ve Been Gone is the epitome of the heart-eyes emoji <3
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I don’t think I’ve read a 2014 published book yet this year(OMG. I know! It’s already the end of the year). But my fav read this year is Also Known As & Going Rogue by Robin Benway :D
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Wow, this was so much fun!! It took me 2 days to figure out the pictures, but I had so much fun :) Number 10 was especially hard. Great Idea and I looooove your giveaways :)
Wow the cover guessing looks extremely difficult! I don’t even know where to begin to find these covers hahaha, but I will try my best!!! I’m VERY excited about all of these books! Cress is one of my absolute favorite books and I have been wanting to get Since You’ve Been Gone for such a long time!
You have the best giveaways and I really enjoy your reviews! Keep up your awesome work, YAY! :D
My favorite books so far this year are Throne of Glass, Gone Girl, and Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour :)
#10 was *evil*. Now that I know it, I feel like an idiot. So clear. Everything else was peachy :-P Gave me a reason to browse future releases though, so thanks :)
This was effin’ hard for me actually…it took me a long time to get most of the covers right…still haven’t got three covers as of this time but i hope to find it soon…anyways some of my most memorable fave read this year is Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins, Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, The Young Elites by Marie Lu :)
I just finished reading the Infernal Devices trilogy and it absolutely made it to my fav 2014 reads. Such a shame that it took me so long to read it, because at the end I was crying in a way that I hadn’t cried since Harry Potter.
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This is such an original game! I love it! It is really hard though, but I still like it :)
My favorite books of 2014 are:
The Winner’s Curse, Kiss of Deception, Stolen Songbird, Cruel Beauty, Young Elites, and Blood of Olympus!
I am gearing up for the cover guessing game, so my favorite books so far are: Landline by Rainbow Rowell, Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater, Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor, Isla and Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins (I expected ALL of these to be faves), and I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, which was a surprise for me.