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Valentine’s Day is this week, and so we’re talking all about the books with those really swoony romances or heart-stealing boys! I love romances, so I am super excited to tell you all about my favorites! Clicking on the hearts will take you to my reviews. :)

 

And there you have it! I tried to leave out some of the obvious choices, even thought I SO wanted to add Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and yes… Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Boy, did I ever swoon with that book. Tell me what some of your favorite swoonworthy books are! Seriously, I WANT recommendations. Do you agree with my choices?

 

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Ok, beloved authors of mine. In this post I will tell you what I would love for you to write for me. Thank you. :)

1. Books about bookish people

2. Some kind of a YA Phantom of the Opera retelling. How cool would that be?

3. Books that take place on a train. Like a really luxurious, opulent train and romance and swoons.

4. More books where traveling is involved. I can’t get enough of them! Road trips, cruises, backpacking. OH backpacking would be fun!

5. I love the idea of New Adult, but I feel like they are pretty much always full of sex or heavy issues. Sometimes we almost-30’s would like to read a light Anna and the French Kiss type of innocent love story with people our age.

6. More survival stories. I love books where the characters get stranded somewhere and have to learn to survive in crazy hard situations.

7. Love stories without insatlove. I want to see some characters who have an epic, slow-burning, heart-stopping romance that takes both of them by surprise. Like best friends turned more? Or enemies who try not to fall in love but do. I want my characters to work at love for once!

8. I want a book that takes place in Egypt. I love Egypt and all that history. I want a really good Egyptian mystery. Buy YA. Study abroad? I dunno…

9. Sharks. Sharks are never in books. Oh, and dinosaurs. I’m thinking Terra Nova or Dinotopia. Could be fun.

10. More YA Christmas books. Because honestly. I’m the queen of Christmas, and am not always in the mood for an adult romance.

So, what would you like to see published from your favorite authors?
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I really, REALLY love supporting debut authors, and I get very excited for their books! The buzz around the book world proves that this year’s group of debut authors is going to be amazing!! My TBR of debuts is insanely long. It’s going to be very hard to narrow things down to just 10.

The Cute Contemporary Romances
Wish You Were Italian by Rae Kristin
The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord
Something Real by Heather Demetrios

The Amazing Retellings
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
Wild by Alex Mallory

The Crazy Worlds
NIL by Lynne Matson
Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam

The Heart-Pounders
Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell
Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin

Which ones are you excited to read?

 

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Merry Christmas Eve! Tonight is one of my very favorite nights of the entire Christmas season. I would like to pause my life and live in Christmas Eve for a few days. I love the magic and the anticipation. I have been blessed this year with so many books from friends and from publishers! How could I possibly want anything more? The thing about books, though, is that you can never run out and you can never have too many! Here are the top ten books I’m hoping Santa has in his bag for me. :)

Fragments by Dan Wells
The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Lundquist
Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth Eulberg
The Funny Thing Is by Ellen DeGeneres
Charlotte Street by Danny Wallace

Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
A Tale of Two Centuries by Rachel Harris
The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, and Amanda Pressner
Champion by Marie Lu

So, what’s on your list for Santa? I hope he brings you all the books!

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This is a pretty exciting topic for this week! I love, love, LOVE discovering new authors! Sadly, I have not read very many new authors this year, but here are the new ones I love! And I am not counting debut authors, because they were new to everyone this year!

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Just One Day & Just One Year

I read both of these books this year, and I really like Gayle’s storytelling and her characters. I adored Just One Day, and was majorly hungover after it. Just One Year was quite disappointing, though. I have not read any of her other books because I’m terrified of them. I hate crying!

Starry Nights

Starry Nights was one of my favorite books of the year, which puts me in the minority. I think I connected with this book so well because I love art history and art so much. Daisy was able to turn art into magic with this book, and I loved that so much!

Renegade & Revelations

J.A.’s writing style is gorgeous, and this new trilogy is SO unique and exciting. I love the world she created, and I love the characters. My favorite thing about these books, though, is the vivid imagery J.A. created for us. SO pretty! The descriptions of the scenery had me swooning.

Golden

I know, right?! My first Jessi Kirby book EVER! And I loved it! I love romance novels, and this one had very little romance in it. I still really enjoyed it, though, which means Jessi is awesome. I am so excited to get to more of her books.

Heist Society

I am a big fan of the Heist Society series, even though I’ve only read the first one. Ally’s writing is so perfect that I barely notice it. I know that sounds weird, but it just works for the story. I can’t wait to read more of this series, as well as The Gallagher Girls.

Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm

Leigh can go from writing deep feelings to crazy battle scenes to detailed descriptions of Grisha powers. If her writing was not so amazing these books would be just another fantasy trilogy.

Unremembered

While I LOVED Unremembered, I also had so much fun getting to know Jessica through the guest post she did for me as part of her blog tour! She is such a nice person.

Audrey, Wait!

This book was just so much fun!

Sleigh Bells in the Snow

I read very little adult romance this year, but I really loved this one!

The Winner’s Curse

This book is amazing! I love Marie’s writing style, and her creative mind.

And there you have it! Which awesome authors did you discover this year?