Top Ten Things on Tori's Bookish Bucket List

This week is my top ten bookish bucket list items!

1 — Read Harry Potter. Seriously. I've discussed this before, but Harry Potter needs to be read. I've read books 1-3, but nothing farther. That needs to get done. 

2 — Have a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. These are so cool. Whenever I get a house, I'm getting/building one of these. They're just so cool, and it'll look so pretty with all my books just sitting on the shelves. My only problem would be that I'm short (5'2" English), and I wouldn't be able to reach the books on the top shelf...

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3 — Read one book a day for a month. This is literally a dream of mine. It would have to happen in the summer, but wouldn't that be a great way to get books off my TBR? Of course I'd have to write the reviews the same day too and post them. Maybe even make a challenge with some winners...

4 — Marathon Percy Jackson. I've read all five books in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lost Hero, and The Son of Neptune, but I stopped there. And this happened a long time ago. I barely remember anything that happened! I've recently reread The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters, but c'mon... I want to read them all consecutively. 

5 — Have all my books read. This, realistically, will never happen, but I can dream. Yes, I mean bought books AND ARCS. I'm shooting high, guys. 

6 — Get my NetGalley percentage up to 100%. I'm not even kidding. This needs to happen. Maybe over spring break... 

7 — Read and review all ARCs two weeks before publication. This needs to happen as well. I'm sick and tired of cramming and making up for lost time with my scheduling and reading. Plus, if I read and review the ARCs asap, then I'll have more time to read the other books I want to! I'm tired of being restricted to reading ARCs. I'm tired of reading and reviewing a title the night before the review is scheduled to be posted on my blog. (That has happened way more than I'd like to admit it has.) 

8 — Reader faster. I suppose 100 pages per hour is pretty fast, but think about how many books I could read if I could read 150 or even 200 pages an hour. I'd be visiting the library more often since my wallet only stretches so far!

9 — Read more "classics." I've pretty much restricted myself to young adult and adult books with crossover-appeal. I want to read more classics, because I want to get the full affect of literature as its greatest. 

10 — Get more people into reading. I've gotten one person into reading: my best friend. My goal is to get more people into reading, because I think everybody should enjoy reading at some level. I think everybody could "get into" reading with the right book! 

So that's my bookish bucket list! What's yours? 

Top Ten Popular Authors Tori Has Never Read

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and Bookish.

 

There are honestly so many popular authors that I haven't read yet. It's sort of embarrassing. Let's just get into the post before I die.

 

Jennifer Echols. She has so many young adult books, but I just haven't read any of them. I don't know. I'm apart of the Biggest Flirts blog tour, so clearly I'm going to read her book by the end of this month, but you know. Hasn't happened yet.

 

Kiera Cass. She's two very popular books in the young adult genre, and I still haven't read them. I swear I will.

 

Aimee Carter. Two series. Still haven't read one. Pawn sounds really interesting though so that will happen eventually!

 

Gayle Forman. Let's just agree that this needs to happen sooner than later. She has successful YA books, and yet I haven't read them. What's wrong with me?

 

Victoria Schwab. She's not really popular, but Jesse from Jesse the Reader and Regan from Peruse Project (BookTubers) really love her, and I still haven't read from Schwab...

 

Kaisie West. I own Pivot Point, but I still haven't read it. 'Nuff said.

 

Okay, so maybe there aren't that many books from popular authors that I haven't read? Then again, I used to read only well-known books...

 

Oh, I've never read Shakespeare! Alexa at Hell is Cold thinks this is some sort of crime.

 

What are some popular authors you've never read? Let me know in the comments!

 



Top Ten OCD Bookish Habits of Tori's (REWIND)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!

This week is rewind week where we choose a past Top Ten that we would like to do! I chose Bookish OCD Habits. As you might know from my post about lending books to friends, I'm pretty particular about the condition of my books. So as you might imagine, I have quite a few OCD habits... I mean, I love my books. They're, like, my children. And when somebody hurts my children...

1 — Don't dog ear my pages. You just don't do this. Especially when it's my book and not yours.

2 — Don't write in my book. This is not okay. Same rule as above. Mine not yours. 

3 — Please, please don't bend the spine. I just...I cringe when I see this. Cringe. The only time this is acceptable for me is if it's a used book, a library book, or someone else's book. This applies for my books only. I don't care if it's your book.

4 — The summary shouldn't describe the entire book. I want to go into a book sort of knowing what it's about, but I also want to be surprised. I want the summary to be gripping and intriguing, not giving away half of the book before I even start it.

5 — Disrespecting books isn't nice. It honestly makes me sad to see people throw books around and rip them. That's not acceptable to me. A book is a book. It's not a toy; it's someone's property. An author spent time to write that book.

6 — Unattractive covers repel me. Very rarely will I even look at the summary of a book if the cover doesn't appeal to me unless it's been recommended to me or I've been requested to read it.

7 — I can't sell my books. Seriously. The only books I've "sold" are the books in the Warriors series that I owned. I had this fad in 5th grade where I read pretty much all of those books. And I didn't even sell them. I just traded them in for our books. See? I can't sell books.

8 — Kindle Daily Deals. I have to check this every day. I'm not even kidding. Even if I have no money, I check it regardless. I have to know what's on sale.

9 — My book blog. I am obsessed with this blog. I put so much time and effort into it. Honestly, I think it's the best decision I've made in a long time. Although my readership is tiny (as in nonexistent, maybe?), I love writing about books and reading them and reviewing them. All that time I spent coding my posts and blog is worth it!

10 — Condition is everything. I'm serious. When I read a book, it looks exactly like it did before I read it. If a book of mine isn't in pristine condition, it's because I either lent it to a friend and they were less than careful with it or I bought it used. Oh, or I've had it for a while.

As you can see, I have quite a few bookish habits... I tried to think of some graphics I could add to this post, but I couldn't think of any! I like to add pretty graphics, if you haven't noticed yet.

Do you have any OCD bookish habits? If you do, tell me in the comments!

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Top Ten Books That Made Tori Swoon

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten Books That Made Tori Swoon!

This week's Top Ten shall be interesting. There are so many books that I've swooned in, and I just have to choose the ones that seem the most interesting.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

I fangirled (see what I did there?) over Levi so much. He was absolutely a sweetheart, and I loved him so much. He obviously cared about Cath in the book, and the fact that Rowell slowly progressed their relationship made it all the better.

The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead

I honestly love Adrian so much in this book, especially Adrian WITH Sydney. They are honestly my OTP of the book world right now (other than Juliette and Warner. They will be in a later swoon book).

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

Oh my gosh, you guys. If you haven't read this book, then...go read it now. Including Shatter Me. Sure, Shatter Me may be a bit of a struggle if you aren't liking it, but chapter 62 in Unravel Me is so worth. Sososososo worth it.

Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park

I don't really know why this book made me swoon, but the ending was honesntly perfect. I just loved it so much. I think Park concluded the book with a really good ending that makes people want to stay for more...but oops, the book is over!

Champion by Marie Lu

If you've read the Legend series, then you would know that every book makes one swoon. I think there's just something special about Champion that makes it even more swoon-worthy than the other two. I mean, that ending, right?

Angelfall by Susan Ee

In Lindsay's review of Angelfall, she basically summed up all my thoughts for that book. Angelfall was just amazing, and I swear that I'm shipping Rafryn for the rest of my life.

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

I don't know why, but I usually end up loving the enemy (if he's hot), so typically I eneded up voting for The Darkling. But strangely, Mal still holds a place in my heart. This book trilogy just gives me a bad case of the feels.

The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa

If you're read my unintelligeble review of The Eternity Cure, then you'd know that this book destroyed me. It freaking destroyed me.

Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer

Ren... This book... I just can't... I mean... Ren. Come on. I just love this book series so much. It's hilarious because the writing isn't that great, but the plot is just so good that I can't help but love the book.

Cress by Marissa Meyer

I honestly can't contain my feels when it comes to this book. Wolf was cute. And I still love Kai, I have to admit, but Thone really started to grow on me during this book. Like, really, really started to grow on me.

What are some books that made you swoon? What books gave you a bad case of the feels?

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Top Ten 2014 Debuts Tori's Most Excited For (11)

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and it's a weekly thing where you list your top ten whatever.

the murder complex by lindsay cummings

published by greenwillow on june 10, 2014

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young’s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.

Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision.

The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is—although he doesn’t know it—one of the MC’s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family?

Action-packed, blood-soaked, and chilling, this is a dark and compelling debut novel by Lindsay Cummings.

side affects may vary by julie murphy

published by balzer + bray on may 18, 2014

What if you’d been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you?

When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. To maximize the time she does have, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs—however she sees fit. She convinces her friend Harvey, whom she knows has always had feelings for her, to help her with a crazy bucket list that’s as much about revenge (humiliating her ex-boyfriend and getting back at her arch nemesis) as it is about hope (doing something unexpectedly kind for a stranger and reliving some childhood memories). But just when Alice’s scores are settled, she goes into remission.

Now Alice is forced to face the consequences of all that she’s said and done, as well as her true feelings for Harvey. But has she done irreparable damage to the people around her, and to the one person who matters most?

Julie Murphy’s SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY is a fearless and moving tour de force about love, life, and facing your own mortality.

Harvey laughed to himself in a sad way and rubbed his eyes. “You want me to help you with a list of things you won’t disclose to me.” He leaned forward and bit the skin around his thumb. “Classic.” “You won’t regret it.” “But—” “Harvey,” I said, my voice low. “Trust me.” I knew what this looked like. It looked like I was using Harvey. But here was the reality of the situation: the minute my life went from semi-permanent to most likely temporary, I decided to latch on to everything in my world that had always been permanent, and for me, Harvey was so permanent he was concrete.

hexed by michelle krys

published by delacorte press on june 10, 2014

If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made. Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won’t stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school. Who wouldn’t want to be her?

Then a guy dies right before her eyes. And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen. But it’s when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie’s world that she learns her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn’t get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that’s seriously bad news for Indie, because according to Bishop, she’s a witch too.

Suddenly forced into a centuries-old war between witches and sorcerers, Indie’s about to uncover the many dark truths about her life—and a future unlike any she ever imagined on top of the cheer pyramid.

cruel beauty by rosamund hodge

published by balzer + bray on january 29, 2014

Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl's journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart.

Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.

With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.

As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.

love letters to the dead by ava dellaira

published by farrar, straus and giroux on april 1, 2014

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more; though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was; lovely and amazing and deeply flawed; can she begin to discover her own path.

summer on the short bus by bethany crandell

published by running press kids on april 1, 2014

Spoiled, Versace-clad Cricket Montgomery has seventeen years of pampering under her belt. So when her father decides to ship her off to a summer camp for disabled teens to help her learn some accountability, Cricket resigns herself to three weeks of handicapped hell.

Her sentence takes a bearable turn as she discovers the humor and likeability of the campers and grows close to fellow counselors. Now, if she can just convince a certain Zac Efron look-alike with amazing blue eyes that she finally realizes there's life after Gucci, this summer could turn out to be the best she's ever had.

Summer on the Short Bus is a very non-P.C., contemporary YA with a lot of attitude, tons of laughs, and a little life lesson along the way.

dear killer by katherine ewell

published by katherine tegen books on april 1, 2014

Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. Rule Two—Be careful. Rule Three—Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they’re the strongest part of your body. Your arms are the weakest. Rule Four—Hit to kill. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible. Rule Five—The letters are the law.

Kit takes her role as London’s notorious “Perfect Killer” seriously. The letters and cash that come to her via a secret mailbox are not a game; choosing who to kill is not an impulse decision. Every letter she receives begins with “Dear Killer,” and every time Kit murders, she leaves a letter with the dead body. Her moral nihilism and thus her murders are a way of life—the only way of life she has ever known.

But when a letter appears in the mailbox that will have the power to topple Kit’s convictions as perfectly as she commits her murders, she must make a decision: follow the only rules she has ever known, or challenge Rule One, and go from there.

Katherine Ewell’s Dear Killer is a sinister psychological thriller that explores the thin line between good and evil, and the messiness of that inevitable moment when life contradicts everything you believe.

midnight thief by livia blackburne

published by disney-hyperion on july 8, 2014

Growing up on Forge’s streets has taught Kyra how to stretch a coin. And when that’s not enough, her uncanny ability to scale walls and bypass guards helps her take what she needs.

But when the leader of the Assassins Guild offers Kyra a lucrative job, she hesitates. She knows how to get by on her own, and she’s not sure she wants to play by his rules. But he’s persistent—and darkly attractive—and Kyra can’t quite resist his pull.

Tristam of Brancel is a young Palace knight on a mission. After his best friend is brutally murdered by Demon Riders, a clan of vicious warriors who ride bloodthirsty wildcats, Tristam vows to take them down. But as his investigation deepens, he finds his efforts thwarted by a talented thief, one who sneaks past Palace defenses with uncanny ease.

When a fateful raid throws Kyra and Tristam together, the two enemies realize that their best chance at survival—and vengeance—might be to join forces. And as their loyalties are tested to the breaking point, they learn a startling secret about Kyra’s past that threatens to reshape both their lives.

In her arresting debut novel, Livia Blackburne creates a captivating world where intrigue prowls around every corner—and danger is a way of life.

learning not to drown by anna shinoda

published by atheneum books for young readers on april 1, 2014

Family secrets cut to the bone in this mesmerizing debut novel about a teen whose drug-addicted brother is the prodigal son one time too many.

There is a pecking order to every family. Seventeen-year old Clare is the overprotected baby; Peter is the typical, rebellious middle child; and Luke is the oldest, the can’t-do-wrong favorite. To their mother, they are a normal, happy family.

To Clare, they are a family on the verge of disaster. Clare: the ambitious striver; Peter: the angry ticking time bomb; and Luke: a drug-addicted convicted felon who has been in and out of jail for as long as Clare can remember—and who has always been bailed out by their parents.

Clare loves Luke, but life as his sister hasn’t been easy. And when he comes home (again), she wants to believe this time will be different (again). Yet when the truths behind his arrests begin to surface, everything Clare knows is shaken to its core. And then Luke is arrested. Again.

Except this time is different, because Clare’s mom does the unthinkable on Luke’s behalf, and Clare has to decide whether turning her back on family is a selfish act…or the only way to keep from drowning along with them.

Debut novelist Anna Shinoda's raw, gritty, powerful novel cuts right to the bone and brings to life the skeletons the lurk in the closet.

nil by lynne matson

published by henry holt on march 4, 2014

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape, or you die.

Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she’s lying naked in an empty rock field.

Lost and alone, Charley finds no sign of other people until she meets Thad, the gorgeous leader of a clan of teenage refugees. Soon Charley learns that leaving the island is harder than she thought . . . and so is falling in love. With Thad’s time running out, Charley realizes that to save their future, Charley must first save him. And on an island rife with dangers, their greatest threat is time.

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Top Ten New-to-Me Authors Tori Read in 2013 (10)

This year is actually when I started reading a lot, so I was introduced to a lot of new authors. I'll try to narrow down the list, but it might be a little difficult since I loved so many books! This won't be in any particular order. I'm too lazy to order it.

Julie Kagawa

With her Immortal Rules series, I managed to fall in love with not only her writing but her characters as well. I have to admit that I didn't enjoy The Iron King as much as The Eternity Cure, but I still love her writing style. And The Eternity Cure was just too flawless to ignore. (This counts because I read The Immortal Rules back in April. I just liked its sequel more.)

Matthew Quick

Okay, despite the fact that this was an adult book, I loved The Silver Linings Playbook. (The movie as well. Jennifer Lawrence forever.) Pat was just so quirky and his character was unique and I loved that. Quick's writing was something special as well, and that's why I bought Sorta Like a Rock Star.

Lucy Christopher

Stolen was so good. Lucy's writing was just magical and entrancing. I can't wait to read her other books! I haven't gotten The Killing Woods (is it even released yet?) but I for sure will be getting it soon!

Leigh Bardugo

Bardugo's writing in Shadow and Bone is just so simple and to the point. It's not elaborate, in a good way, and yet it's descriptive enough so you know what's going on and you're not confused. Despite the fact that Alina makes me angry inside, I feel for her. Bardugo's amazing at creating characters that I honestly care about.

Rainbow Rowell

Fangirl was not my first Rainbow Rowell book (oops, I've read all of hers this year??), but it was my favorite. Her writing is flawless, and it's really freaking good. It's definitely contemporary, but I love it all the same. It's very simple, sort of like Leigh Bardugo's but in a different sense somehow. Rowell's really great at creating memorable characters that, like Bardugo, readers end up caring about a lot.

Neal Shusterman

This dude's storytelling skills are amazing. Like, really good. He's descriptive, and he can create such reeling scenes that just make you want to read moremoremore. He's great at plotting and creeping readers out, that's for sure.

Susan Ee

Honestly, I don't know what to say about Susan Ee's writing except that it's probably my all time favorite of 2013. It's just that her writing is so easy to read. It's the perfect mixture of heavy, action, and humorous. I don't know. Ee's characters are hilarious and yet badass and yet meaningful and gosh they're just so real.

Brandon Sanderson

I didn't expect to like this guy's writing so much, especially since he generally writes adult books (I haven't read many adult books. I need to work on that). But after a few pages into the book, I really got into it and Steelheart was such an action-packed adventure, and it was great. The characters were solid, the twists were pretty good, and the protagonist David didn't make me want to hurl. In all, it was great.

John Green

Oh god. I said Susan Ee's writing was my favorite, but I lied... John Green forever. Seriously. This guy. This guy. He's so--ahem, I mean his writing is so perfect. Yeah. I've read all of his books except for An Abundance of Katherines and his short in Let it Snow, and they were all just perfect, and I love him, and he's just so amazing, and yeah. John Green. That is all.

Lauren Oliver

Okay, I will admit: I tried to read Delirium. It did not go well. Then again, it was more of a read two pages and then quit altogether for another time. But I borrowed Before I Fall from a girl at my school, and she basically shoved it in my hands and forced me to read it, but I'm so glad that I did. Oliver's writing was really good, it flowed, and her storytelling capabilities kept me entranced the entire time. The experience was great! I will definitely be reading her new book Panic when it hits the shelves next year!

So there it is, guys! My top ten new-to-me authors from 2013! Although, I have to admit that I didn't read that many books this year (I didn't get really into reading until we did our testing at school, and I had so much freetime during school to real). Thanks for checking this out! Which books did you like most this year written by new-to-you authors? Tell me in the comments!

Top Ten Books on Tori's Winter TBR (9)

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and it's a weekly thing where you list your top ten whatever.

Well, first off I have to finish these three books.

  

Then I'm going to read these. Or at least try to. Yes, Christmas books. Don't judge. (And I'm only reading The Iron Daughter if The Iron King doesn't fail epically by the end of the book, which is probably not going to happen, 'cause Ash and Puck. You know.)

   
  

Top Ten Books Tori Would Love To See As A Movie/TV Show (8)

This is an event hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is books that I would love to see as a movie or TV show!

1. Stolen by Lucy Christopher
I'd want this to be a movie. This book is just simply amazing. The way Christopher writes...it captures the emotions of Gemma so amazingly. Obviously I don't know what it's like to be kidnapped by a hot guy, but I'm sure that the way Christopher writes Gemma's thoughts and feelings is how I'd feel. 

2. Eve by Anna Carey
In my opinion, I think this would make an interesting TV series. I mean, it would take the right directer and screenplay writer to make this book into a good TV series, but I can see it in my head being pretty great. 

3. Free Falling by Kirsty Moseley
This would make a good movie. It had the right elements--creepiness, romance, and a hint of humor--to make a pretty great YA movie production. 

4. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
I can see this being a TV series. I can imagine in my head Juliette counting things in her prison cell and writing in her notebook. There are so many cliffhangers throughout the series that I can just picture what each episode would end up being like. 

5. How My Summer Went Up in Flames by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
If this were a movie, it would be such a funny, light-hearted movie that I would have to buy it when it came out on DVD. Rosie is just such a hilarious character. My only hopes would be that the movie would do a better job in making their characters more memorable. 

6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
I can literally picture in my mind the different episodes that could be shown on TV for this. The first chapter in Cinder would create such a great beginning in a TV series. In my opinion, I would call the TV series Lunar since the second book Scarlet is mostly about Scarlet. 

7. I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Seriously. If you've read this book and you've seen crime movies and shows, you would understand how great this book would be if it were a big budget movie production. That's the biggest part though: big budget. I don't think they'd be able to pull this off without a pretty fat budget. I would only trust the best with this. (Same with Cinder. If the best aren't producing that TV series, I'll be so sad.)

8. Nightshade by Andre Cremer
TV series. No doubt. So much happens in this trilogy. And no doubt the producers would be able to add more to the plot (like in The Vampire Diaries and Under The Dome) to make it thicker and better than the books (even though the books were great). If they ever create a TV series, I can't wait to see who they cast as Ren. Like hello sexy godlike being. 

9. Eve and Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
I love science fiction, and with the right crew I'm sure this movie would be great. Of course they'd need a good chunk of money to pull off the special effects in this. I could just imagine this as a movie. It would be so great. 

10. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
These books are just so fat and full of fantasy and full of romance and full of cliffhangers and full of amazing things. Each book (The Unbecoming on Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, The Retribution of Mara Dyer) would create great seasons. Three seasons. Sounds pretty great. 

Lindsay's Top Ten Most Memorable Secondary Characters (7)

This is an event hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week is the top ten most memorable secondary characters!

I'm going to admit that this is a hard one for me. Not only because I have to limp back and forth to my bookshelf (I'm injured) but also because though I'm great with remembering characters, their names escape me more than a few times. I'm just horrible with names.

In no particular order: (It would take me forever to figure out who gets the number one spot!)

1. Link from Beautiful Creatures by Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia

There's just something about Link that I love and I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's because I find him hilarious, or love his awful band and his enthusiasm despite it's awfulness. I've reread this book more than a few times and I still can't pinpoint his awesomeness!

2. Issac from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Isaac leaned a hand against the snack table and focused his huge eye on me. “Okay, so I went into clinic this morning, and I was telling my surgeon that I’d rather be deaf than blind. And he said, ‘It doesn’t work that way,’ and I was, like, ‘Yeah, I realize it doesn’t work that way; I’m just saying I’d rather be deaf than blind if I had the choice, which I realize I don’t have,’ and he said, ‘Well, the good news is that you won’t be deaf,’ and I was like, ‘Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.’”

3. Storm from All You Get Is Me by Yvonne Prinz
Her outfits are always outrageous too. They’re the outfits you see in fashion magazines on nine-foot skeletal models. The ones where you always think, Who would wear that? Storm would, that’s who.
I love Storm, always have, and always will. She's just so quirky that I love her, and the quote I chose is one I always remember, no matter how long it's been since I read the book.

4. Kishan from Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
In the other books he is  a major character, however in the first one, his appearance is brief and despite such a short time spent with him, I loved reading about him so much. His hotness definitely began to rival Ren's in this book, if you Team Ren vs Team Kishan readers know what I mean.

5. Taylor from Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Taylor was just so crazy, even before she left the group and went out into the jungle to continue her even crazier shenanigans. Despite the problems the characters faced, I was constantly wondering what cray cray Taylor was doing and got excited when she showed up.

6. M from Warm Bodies by Issac Marion
At first his grunts are what gets me. His conversations with R are hilarious, but throughout the book, he grows and turns into a really nice zombie.

7. Roland Sparks from Fallen by Lauren Kate
There's something unique and memorable about Roland. Between his connection with Daniel, his popularity and somehow always getting what is needed for parties, he's still one of my favorites from the series.

8. Marcie Miller from Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
I hated her so much while reading the series and after that she's forever burned into my mind. I disliked her like she was a real person, and no matter how much distance I put between myself and rereading the series, she's always there when I see the books. She's just so awful!

9. Hudson from Ten Things We Did by Sarah Mlynowski
His secret job is enough for an explanation.

10. Tyler Down from Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Even though I'm not finished with this book, I can tell that Tyler (and his clicking camera) is someone I'm not going to be forgetting for quite some time.

So there you have it, my top ten most memorable secondary characters! Agree, disagree? Leave me a comment letting me know why and your most memorable secondary characters!