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Hey guys and welcome back to my channel! Today I am here to talk to you about my
favourite books of 2018. I didn't really have too much of a criteria for this
list. I basically chose some of the books that I gave 5 stars to and some of
the books that I gave 4 stars too. I also tried to focus on the ones that I
really enjoyed and the stories that I felt most connected to and kind of stuck
with me after reading them. Rather than just choosing the ones that I gave
5 stars to because I think that although giving a book 5 stars obviously means I
really did enjoy it but I think there's a big difference between enjoying
something when you're reading it and still enjoying that book months after
you've read it if that makes sense. Like I think there's a big difference between
the two. So yeah these are books that I really really enjoyed and are definitely
my favorite books ever that I managed to read in 2018. So the first book that I
want to talk about is Heartstopper by Alice Oseman and this is a graphic
novel and it's Volume one. Alice did a Kickstarter for this book so...
what this books about is about two characters from her very first novel
Solitaire, they're not really main characters in the story but they do play
a part in the story and basically she really loved these characters a lot
and she decided to write a graphic novel based around these two characters
and she started a Kickstarter back in I think maybe August it might have been or
something like that. And it was really successful and it's
now going to be published next year in I think either February or March I can't
remember. So definitely get a copy if you haven't already got yourself a copy in
the Kickstarter. But this is absolutely one of my favourite books of this year
it's just a really cute heartwarming read and the artwork is
just so incredible in this. When I first got it...I don't know if you can see...I
wasn't sure about it because it was in greyscale and I don't really like
graphic novels in greyscale very much. I quite like a little bit of color and
yeah was a little bit disappointed when I saw that
it was in greyscale but it just suits her art style so much I mean look how
adorable they look I don't know whether you can see that but they look so
adorable it's just so cute. So yeah I really absolutely loved this graphic
novel and I can't wait to pick up volume 2 when it comes out in July next year.
Yeah I'm very excited about that.
So the second book that I want to talk
about is Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson and this is actually the third
book in the Mistborn series and I could quite easily have chosen the other two
in this trilogy but I chose this one just because it's the final one and it's
where everything sort of comes together and makes finally makes sense but really
everything that I have to say about this book kind of refers to all three books.
So firstly I just love Brandon Sanderson's world-building it's just
incredible and there's so much attention to like the detail of...of the world and
how the magic system works and it's quite a complicated magic system on...
it works on metals and it's just really interesting because it didn't work how I
initially thought it was going to work and although in the beginning it made
a lot of the fight sequences quite complicated to understand but when
you got in it, it was just so good and he's so good at writing fight scenes as
well and including all the sort of magical elements to it as well and yeah
his writing and his characterisation you just feel so connected to all of the
characters and you kind of know...like learn their background over time rather
than having it all at once given to you and I find that really interesting and
it sort of adds to the story because it's most appropriate when you do find
out some of their backstory and yeah I just really loved it a lot. It was also
my first time reading a high fantasy book. I'd always been quite scared to
read high fantasy because a lot of the fantasy I've read has been YA and I've
read a little bit of adult fantasy but it's more where it just dips slightly
into the fantasy and not...isn't quite fully in it.
So yeah this was my like my first experience of it and I really loved it
and I really want to pick up more by Brandon Sanderson because of it.
The other thing that I really enjoyed about this series was that I buddy read
the whole entire series with my friend Steve over at the lawn gnome and it was
just a really lovely experience to read these books with someone. Especially as
they're so long it was quite motivating because you could discuss what you were
reading even if you were reading it slowly, with somebody and I really
enjoyed that so I definitely want to read...do more buddy reads with people
because I did really enjoy it. The next book on this list will come as no
surprise to anybody if you've been watching my channel for a while because
I absolutely raved about this book since reading it and that is The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls and oh my gosh this book. This book is a memoir which I don't
usually enjoy memoirs really that much but this memoir is told more like a
story which was the first thing that really connected me to the writing and
the book itself. Even though everything in this book is true there
are moments that you're kind of like how can this be true. how? how? and because you're
just almost in disbelief that this actually happened but it's just
incredible it's a really heartwarming and heartbreaking story and I...I just it
blew me away when I read it. It made me laugh it made me cry basically Jeannette
Walls...this is about her childhood and about her alcoholic father and her
sort of artistic mother and both of them were very neglectful of their four
children including Jeanette and it's kind of how they lived with that and how
you know they still love each other, like there's still so much love for each
other regardless of how they were retreated and how they got to where they
are. It's really complicated without spoiling obviously moments in this book
but I just really loved this book and it just made me go through all the emotions
and yeah I would definitely recommend to anyone if you are into sort of
reading true life stories and also if you're very into kind of like books that
almost break your heart a little bit. I don't know if that's a thing but I
quite like books that make me quite emotional. I feel like I really connect
with them in that sense.
The next book I actually listen to on audible and that
was A Man Called Ove and this actually was a big surprise...I obviously
I'd heard great things about Frederick Backman's writing and I really wanted to
try something by him and I picked this book on a whim a couple of years ago
because it was on sale on audible and it was cheaper and yeah I was just blown
away by this story because it took me by surprise. It's basically about a
grumpy old man and how he kind of doesn't want to be a part of everyday
society after losing his wife and it's kind of how his new next-door neighbors
move in and kind of bring him out of his shell and back into you know the real
world and basically throughout this whole story he's trying to commit
suicide and and yeah it's just a really again a heartbreaking but also
heartwarming story it's also really funny as well which just adds to the
whole kind of tone of the book. It kind of it makes it a bit more of a
light-hearted read than a really deep and dark one. Again the next book is not
going to come as a surprise to anyone and that is The Song Rising by Samantha
Shannon, this is the third book in The Bone Season series by Samantha Shannon
and again I've raved about this series a lot. It's basically a dystopian /
supernatural kind of world and just her writing and her world building it's just
incredible like when you read this book you can just imagine so many of the
different places that she mentions obviously there's a lot around London
but there's also other parts of the UK that she also goes into very...a lot of
detail of and to places I've never been to either and I could easily imagine
them in my mind and in this like new dystopian society as well
which i think is just amazing to be able to do that and then obviously the
characters themselves are just so in-depth and so well thought out and the
whole supernatural kind of weaves in like naturally if that makes sense like
it doesn't seem like out of place in the in the book and it's just I don't know
it's just her writing is incredible and I just love where this story is going
and I'm really excited to pick up the next book in this series when it comes
out in like I think it's 2020 so there's a long wait but I'm very excited about it.
So the next book is another book that was a real surprise to me and that was
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvault I think that's how you pronounce his name and
yeah this was a real surprise because I what I picked it up in a bookshop in
Cardiff I think when I went on a like booktube meetup thing and I just picked
up on a whim because I liked the blurb and I wasn't really sure whether I was
going to enjoy it but I absolutely did. His writing is very similar to that of
Stephen King so if you love anything by Stephen King particularly his horror
stuff then you will probably enjoy this book Basically this is set in a town
that has basically an old 17th century witch in it and they all think they're
cursed and basically the teenagers of the town
decide they're gonna get rid of this curse or slash this witch and all these
things start happening and it's just incredible because it's more it just
really discusses the idea of prejudice and how we we are basically sheep we
just followed the crowd aren't going to stick up for what we really believe in
we're just gonna let things happen even if we don't morally believe in them and
it's about what human kind could do to each other if they thought it was worth
it. I'm trying not just for this book because it's a big spoiler otherwise but
yeah I just really loved this book and I thought it was really creepy in all the
right ways and yeah I flew through this book and I really enjoyed it. We then
have The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan of course a Kirsty Logan book had to
be on this list because I've pretty much loved everything that I've read by her
and particularly The Gracekeepers which was her last novel and this is
kind of set in the same sort of world. It's kind of like a prequel to The Gracekeepers
but also kind of not and yeah I just love how she manages to weave in
sort of fairy tales and sort of mermaids into a plot without making it
stereotypical or like cliche and I just really love her writing, her writing is
very sort of... I don't want to say poetic because that's not kind of what it
sounds like but it's very beautiful writing it's very lyrical and really
fits their kind of tone of this book. The next book I have is Ask The Passengers
by A S King and this is basically about Astrid who is kind of questioning her
sexuality but she doesn't feel like she really wants to put a label on it but
society is trying to basically make her put a label on it and she feels really
kind of lost in her sort of life and she decides to send messages to people
...strangers that she's never met on the planes that are flying above her so
basically she has this habit of going out into the garden and lying on the
bench and just watching the sky it's kind of a way to sort of get away from
everything that's happening and then she sends these, these messages to the people
always on the people on the plane and basically it's kind of got a little bit
of magical realism and the respect that there's chapters in here from the
passengers on the plane and they've got their own sort of life going on and it's
just a small chapter on...on their kind of story and where they are when they're
getting on that plane and then at the very end it kind of links it back to
Astrid and her sending love to them on the plane so it sounds very weird and
kind of like it wouldn't work but it really does and I just really loved this
book because it kind of brought out so many important messages and I really
loved the character of Astrid. I thought she was very um reflective and
intelligent in this book so yeah I really enjoyed a sort of unique
perspective on the sort of coming out sort of typical coming out stories. We
then have a book by one of my absolute favourite authors so it really it's no
surprise that this book has made this list and that is The Prisoner of Heaven
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, this is the third book in the cemetery of Forgotten books
series and although I say that lightly because I don't think you need to read
the books in order if you don't want to because they all do make sense as they
are. However it does make more sense if you like you get a bit more out of the
book if you have read all of the books in order. Especially with this book
because this book kind of connects both the Shadow of the Wind the first book and
The Angel's Game which is the second book they're both entirely different stories
with different people but this book kind of connects the two I don't want to
spoil it but they make a little bit more sense with this book and yeah I just
absolutely loved this book partly because it goes into the backstory of one of my
favorite characters which is Fermin. I think that's how you say his name and it
kind of details his backstory and how he got to where he is and it's just it's
just a really beautifully written book and that is really hard to come by with
translated books I find because this is basically translated by Lucia Graves
who does such a good job of translating Carlos's work. Two of my favourite
things about his writing is how much detail he goes into in sort of history
and political history and also into sort of the descriptions of the places and
the people because you just feel like you're when you pick it up this book and
start reading that you just kind of walk into this world. This kind of Gothic
world and it's just...it's just magical and it kind of feels like it's got
magical realism in it even though it hasn't and I don't I mean that I'm
trying to not spoil it by saying that so yeah I just really love his work love
his writing and I can't wait to pick up the fourth book in this series now. So
the next book is Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas which I've literally just
finished reading and I absolutely loved this book.
This is the sixth book or kind of sixth book in the Throne of Glass series which
if you've been following my channel for a while you all know that I absolutely
love and it was really nice this book because one of my favourite characters in
this series all very early on in the series was Chaol or Chaol...I'm still not sure
how you say his name and obviously in the last kind of a couple of books he
hasn't played a huge part in them and so it was really nice to get this story
from his perspective and find out what he was doing in this world and yeah I
just really loved Sarah J Maas' kind of attention to sort of his disability
and how it all fits into the main plot and it's just made me so excited to get
hold of Kingdom of Ash the final book so I'm definitely going to be doing that in
the new year. And the last book on this list is Monsters by Emerald Fennel or
Finnell I'm not sure and and this book completely took me by surprise because
when I first started reading it I thought I'm not sure I'm gonna enjoy
this sort of dark black comedy sort of tone this book has but since finishing
the book I've just like that I haven't been able to get this story out of my
head and I've just...I don't know for some reason I want to read more books like
this because it really shocked me in all the right ways. So this is about a girl
who's kind of like 12 years old and she goes to stay with her Uncle and Aunt
in their hotel in this Cornish town and basically murders keep happening of the
women in the town and she's obsessed with murders and how basically people do
it and she decides she's going to discover who the murderer is and
basically her friend who is also staying in that hotel on holiday joins her on
this mission and it's just I don't know it's just really funny but also quite
dark and I just loved it. I just thought by the end when everything comes
together it's just the perfect kind of tone for that kind of book. Ok so those
were my favourite books of 2018. Do go down into
the comments section and tell me what your favourite books of 2018 were. I
really would love to know and get some recommendations for books that I really
should pick up in the future. I hope you enjoyed this video and I shall see
you in my next one. Bye!
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