My hair's gone completely flat and all I can smell its sour cream and onion
Pringles. Happy 2018. Hey guys it's Sarah Jane welcome back to my channel today
I'm here to bring you my favorite reads of 2017. Now just a little disclaimer
before we start just because these books are my favorite reads of the year
doesn't mean it's a bad thing if you didn't like these books... wait that doesn't
work in reverse does it? Funny that. My 2017 most disappointing books video is
linked down below that one isn't in order but my favorites is. So let's get going
with my 10th favorite book of the year. At number 10 I have oh I'm gonna stop
doing this. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Discovery of Witches
is an adult paranormal romance all about witches demons and vampires and I really
enjoyed this book now there were things about this book that I knew I shouldn't
like there were things that were kind of whispering in my head as I was reading
this book but I kind of still loved it anyway and even though I have massively
fallen out of love with this trilogy which you'll see if you watch my most
disappointing books of the year go check it out obviously after this one please
don't be a quitter we've only just begun. But this book I enjoy purely on an
entertainment level it was a book that I was excited about it was a book that I
was really loving and I just fell for this book hook line and sinker so while
I'm not in love with the second book at all and I don't think this is going to
be one of the most favorite trilogies of all time or anything like that I did
really enjoy this book so it's one of my favorites at number 10. Coming in at
number 9 is Spiders Bite by Jennifer Estep this one's a bit of a surprise to
be on this list if I'm totally honest with you because I didn't give this book
a massively high rating at the time I did enjoy it but I wouldn't say that I
was head over heels in love with it but with that being said it is the book
series that I am most keen to carry on with in 2018.
This book is an urban fantasy book this is an urban fantasy book about an
assassin named Gin and I just really really enjoyed this book it was very
entertaining and while there was some things I didn't like about the book I'm
not gonna do it again, I'm gonna do it again. There there were some annoying
things in this book about the main character who kept going mmmm every time she
was referencing to the love interest, there let's carry on. I say every time
I'm sorry. Now according to Goodreads I gave
book three out of five styles which just goes to show that you can't always trust
star ratings because your opinions change over time there are books that
you read and you pretty much inhale and you think that you love them and then
there are books that you read and you're like yeah that was good maybe a little
bit average and then you end up loving it later on the more that you think
about it and this is one of those books so I'm not gonna change my rating I'm
not gonna suddenly make it higher than what it was because I think three stars
is fair but I still really really enjoyed this and I know I'm so keen to
carry on in 2018 I'm including it in this list and if you don't agree I don't
care. Favourite book number eight is... Spellbook
of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowler Doyle this is a why a standalone magical
realism book all about Olive and her best friend Rose you start to lose
things which starts off as small items such as hair clips and jewellery but soon
it becomes much clearer that Rose has lost something bigger that she won't
talk about. How did I get that in one go? I really enjoyed this book and I wasn't
actually expecting you to this is probably one of the most like surprising
books of the year I found this book to be very interesting there was a lot of
mystery in the book and I couldn't figure out what was going on which when
that actually happens that does tend to make you enjoy the book more because if
a book's predictable then chances are you're not gonna enjoy it as much. I
found this book to be very enjoyable it's very atmospheric
and this book actually has some diversity in its well in terms of
sexuality. Favorite book number seven of the year is drumroll these are more jazz
fingers than drumrolls. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
obviously. I really to stop doing this because it is very dangerous. This is the
third book in the Harry Potter series and I know I know I still haven't
finished the Harry Potter series yet but I'm getting there.
Now Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was always one of my favorites
of the films so it doesn't really surprise me that I love this book as
much as I did when I was growing up I read the first Harry Potter book and
thought it was quite good and then I read Chamber of Secrets and I really didn't
like it and I didn't carry on so I'm glad I read this one because this one is
just perfect. Reading Prisoner of Azkaban really
helped fuel my love for the Harry Potter books because I was a little bit worried
that maybe like I've missed the train because I haven't read them as a child...
the Hogwarts Express train! I'm not funny I'm pretty funny no I'm not funny. I was
just really worried that I missed my chance that maybe I'll
wasn't gonna see the magic and when I read this book I realised that I did
love the books as much as I loved the movies it just made me so happy and it
just reconfirmed to me that I am a Slytherin.
that mug right there that's from 2015 Sarah Jane and that Sarah Jane didn't
understand herself fully she felt she was a Slytherclaw who was mostly in
Ravenclaw but oh how she was wrong I judge her. Only a little bit. I also
think this is one of the most beautiful Harry Potter covers I have ever seen I'm
just in love with it. Coming in at number 6 we have Spectacle by Rachel Vincent
this is a dark mythical fantasy yet contemporary world where fantasy and
mythical creatures are put on display and treated much how people used to treat
animals in circuses and actually still how society still does treat some
animals. The first book was dark mythical magical and disturbing all at once and
it was darkly beautiful I absolutely loved it I wasn't sure if I was going to
love the second one as much as I did but I really did and I just adore this world.
This was a book that I just literally didn't know what was gonna happen next
the book still when I think about it leaves me like open mouthed and I just
cannot wait for the third book I absolutely love this trilogy and I have
a feeling it's going to end up in one of my most favorite trilogies of all time
so if you haven't read it read it. The next book that's one of my absolute
favorites of the year is The Graces by Laure Eve. This is a book that I
absolutely love it's been months since I read it and I still can't stop thinking
about it this is a book that is so atmospheric it's literally drenched in
atmosphere and it's full of mystery and intrigue and I just love it.
Just like everybody else and her small town River is obsessed with the Graces
all the witches are they not which is nobody really knows. I have a review for
this book linked down below I absolutely adored this book I just feel like it was
a slow book but it was a slow book that I loved like not in spite of that
almost like because of that it was a slow burn I was slowly getting poured
into the glamour of the Graces and I was becoming obsessed with the Graces which
I found was a really interesting thing because the whole book is about people
who are obsessed with the Graces and I was becoming obsessed with the Graces. I
love it I love it I love it Laure Eve has such an amazing writing style, I absolutely
adore her and also I think she is one cool badass.
Met her at YALC, heard her speak at YALC, and basically I want to
her when I grow up except I am grown up and I'm going to be 30 in a few weeks.
But you know what I mean. love love love this book. Now we're into
the top five. At number five we have .. can't remember what this book is called, brains gone dead.
The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E Pearson this is hugely hugely surprising me
because when I read the Kiss of Deception by Mary E Pearson and I felt that it
was quite average I didn't really love it I felt like it was an OK fantasy book
but I wasn't really pulled in and then I read the second one then I read the
third one for Tome Topple and I am in love. I'm not gonna talk about this
book that much because this is the third book in the trilogy but this is a
fantasy series all about a princess named Lia who is betrothed to a prince
and she doesn't want to marry him so she goes on the run and then she is pursued
by the prince and also by an assassin. The story goes on from there and I know
a lot of people who absolutely love Kiss of Deception but if you read the
Kiss of Deception and you wasn't really loving it you were kind of on the fence
about it I do encourage you to carry on because this world is absolutely
incredible. I love this book I love this book and I'm so excited for A Dance of Thieves.
My next favorite book is actually a poetry book and this is stripped by Cara
Alwil Leyba. Now I absolutely love poetry books such as the princess saves
herself in this one, milk and honey the chaos of longing, but
with that being said I feel like those books aren't really for me, there's a lot
of heaviness in that poetry and I think it's amazing that these things are being
spoken about but that doesn't mean that they are topics that I can personally
relate to this poetry book is pitched as a poetry book for all women on the edge
of change and I feel like this is a poetry book for those who for those
people who want to embrace who they are be their true unapologetic selves it's for
those people who are fighting for the life they want who realise their own
true self worth and this poetry book really really inspires me and I just
absolutely adore it. Burn down your walls it's breathtaking inside. I love it I
absolutely love this book. Now we're up to my top three favorite books of the
year I'm not gonna be giving any of these books fancy intros and throwing them up
in the air because they're all hardbacks so at number three we have Strange the
Dreamer by Laini Taylor. It was impossible of course but when did that
ever stop any dreamer from dreaming? This is a book I haven't yet got around
to reviewing I absolutely adore this book it's so beautifully written it's so
intricate it's so stunning it's mesmerising line by line and I
absolutely adore it. This story follows Lazlo Strange who
is an orphan who's always been obsessed with the hidden city of Weep as a
librarian Lazlo Strange didn't think he was ever going to be able to find out
what happened to the lost city of Weep but when an opportunity presents himself
he decides to take his life into his own hands and find out what happened.
Lazlo wants to find out what happened to the lost city of Weep and he also wants
to find out who the blue-skinned goddess is that's been appearing in his dreams.
This book is absolutely stunning it was a little bit slow to start and I think
when I was reading I was feeling like I wasn't really getting what I
wanted I know some people love the fact that it's slow and I can see why but for
me personally I just wanted a little bit more a little bit sooner but once this
book got going I fell for it hook line and sinker and I'm absolutely dying for
the next one. At number 2 we have uprooted by Naomi Novik.
So uprooted was gifted to me on my birthday in January 2016 I hadn't got
around to reading it I finally have and I see why everybody loves it because I
do too. So our protagonist Agnieszka loves her family home she loves her
village she loves her life but her village is on the edge of a very
corrupted wood and the villagers rely on the wizard known as the Dragon to keep
them safe. Every 10 years he takes a girl from the village to serve him they
always come back different and they never want to stay in the village after
he's released them and the story starts when Agneiska is picked to be his latest
servant. If you haven't got this book yet I thoroughly encourage that you do so
have a spoiler free review link down below and I just love this book it has
so much magic it has so much beauty it has so many beautiful lines and I just
love that this book is a really wonderful standalone that you can just
lose yourself in and it's so atmospheric I love Adneiskha and the dragon I love
their push and pull to each other I love they kind of hate hate to love I just I
just adore them I adore them I love this book and I'm so so glad you guys
really pushed me to read it. I'm so happy. And now it is time for the book that
Sarah Jane of the book life decided was her number one book of the year and that
book was. Feversong by Karen Marie Moning what a surprise. so Feversong
was the ninth and final book in the the series this was the first time that
the later books in the Fever series really captured the magic of the earlier
Fever books for me. For me I adore the first five Fever series books but then
the books kind of went off on this little spin-off and then they kind of
came back and for a while I wasn't really too sure where the series was
headed but this book was absolutely stunning it was... it was dark and it was
exciting and it followed the characters that I've loved so long and it was just
the most perfect conclusion to the Fever series I didn't know if this book or
this series could be concluded in a way that I would have felt completely happy
with but I just I just adored adored this book. The very back of the book says
Barron's was right there is a monster inside me and she's beautiful and I feel
like this really sums up the Fever series as an arc because Mackayla Lane is
a protagonist that is a very feminine she's very girly and she's
unapologetically so you know she's she's a rainbow in the face of darkness and
the fever series as I'm sure you guys know because I talk about it all the
time is an urban fantasy adult Fae book, and it's a it's a series, there Darkfever
Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned, Feverborn and
Feversong. And I love this series you guys know I love this series but I'm
also not blinded by my love for this series and the last couple of books I've
loved them but this one for me was just absolute perfection and I adored it. I
can't tell you much more because this is the ninth book in the series but I am
going to be doing a whole series review and updated review very very soon I'm
very excited about it. So that's it those are my favorite books of the year I hope
you guys enjoyed this video what was your most favorite book of the year let
me know in the comments down below if you liked this video and you would like
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