DECEMBER WRAP-UP + Book Blog

Hello!

During the middle of December I became obsessed with reading again. If you read my previous post, I account it to discovering "bookstagrams" on Instagram. If you love reading and books I would definitely recommend looking at the tags and checking some out, but beware it may enable you to buy more books haha.

Anyways, I started reading for fun again and buying books around the middle/end of December and this little pile is of the books I read and finished in December. I started with A Court of Thorns and Roses which was amazing. A perfect book to inspire you to want to read again: full of magic, mystery, and love. It quickly became a favorite and I'm very (un)patiently waiting for the sequel to come out this May. I moved on to Cinder and Scarlet afterwards, still need to read Cress and Winter but got sidetracked by other books. Cruel Beauty followed and once I finished it I set about ordering it's sequel from Amazon. Rounding out the month for me was Six of Crows, another one that I'm waiting for its sequel to arrive haha.

So why am I talking about books I read in December? Well, I've decided that I'll be trying to do reviews for the books I've read this year, so I will be starting with January but I thought I would still show you guys what books I read before this year. I love reading and I'd just like to share my thoughts on what books I read, because I know I'm always looking at reviews before I buy books. I will be trying really hard to make this a spoiler free review blog but obviously I may slip up and not even realize it since I am reviewing books I read a month ago.

It's a fun new adventure and I hope you'll join along the way!

THE LUNAR CHRONICLES!

I used to be an avid reader, constantly having a book with me at all times. But then when I got into Uni I lost that passion for reading, mainly because I had massive amounts of reading for classwork and just lost the fun of reading. But while playing around on instagram, as I always do, I came across some really amazing "bookstagrams" as they call them. Mainly focusing on Young Adult or New Adult novels which are my favorite and needless to say I ended up following a few. I found one book called "A Court of Thornes and Roses" which many of them had and I delved into it (I'll do a separate little review of that one as I finished it but just didn't take any pictures yet haha). But I also kept seeing these books pop up on every single account, they looked pretty and quite interesting, so I immediately set about doing some research.

There are four books in the series (though I think there is also another one called Fairest which tells about Queen Levana's past) and each one is based on a fairy tale but obviously quite different and set in a spacey/futuristic world. The characters aren't as we remember them and their stories while having a little basis with the original are quite different. The first book is Cinder, and if you couldn't guess by the name, is a retelling of Cinderella. The Second book is Scarlet and is based on Red Riding Hood. The third (which I think could be my favorite just based on the fairytale) is Cress who is a futuristic Rapunzel of sorts. And then the very last book in the series which was released maybe 2 months ago is Winter and as you can see from the apple on the from is Snow White!

I absolutely love fairy tales so once I read reviews and descriptions I knew that this series would be right up my alley. There were so many good reviews on this series that I just had to pick it up. They've helped catapult my love for reading back into the forefront (which could be dangerous as I read pretty fast and go through books like water haha) and I've not got a pretty long list of books to read after these!

I did already finish Cinder (read it in one day lol), but I think I'll try to do a separate review of it in another post :)

 Now I'm off to start Scarlet (which I admit I'm looking forward to more than Cinder). Can't wait to learn more about Cinder's journey and be introduced to Wolf and Scarlet!