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Top Ten Favorite Books of 2013!

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2014 is finally upon us and that means that it's time to reveal my Top Ten Favorite Books of 2013. For what feels like months now I've been contemplating my list of favorites and while some books have been added or bumped I feel this final grouping does this past year of amazing reads justice. I want to further explain that just because these are my favorites it does not deter whatsoever from the other books that I've read in 2013. From Young adult to Non-Fiction to yes, even Zombie romance the literature put out this past year has exceeded my expectations and I can only hope 2014 proves to be the same or maybe, just maybe, even better!! Anyway I know, I know enough rambling. Without any further ado Let's get to it shall we?! In order from 10-1 here are my Top Ten Favorite Books of 2013: 10.) Sneak (Swipe #2)  by Evan Angler Released: September 4, 2012 Review 9.) The Harvesting by Melanie Karsak Released: September 18, 2012 Review 8.) The ...

Review: The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman

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Buy It Now: Amazon - Barnes & Nobles Author: Robin Wasserman Genre: Horror, Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: September 10, 2013 They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by their own hand . . . except one. And that one has no answers to offer the shattered town. She doesn't even know why she killed—or whether she'll do it again. Something is waking in the sleepy town of Oleander's, Kansas—something dark and hungry that lives in the flat earth and the open sky, in the vengeful hearts of upstanding citizens. As the town begins its descent into blood and madness, five survivors of the killing day are the only ones who can stop Oleander from destroying itself. Jule, the outsider at war with the world; West, the golden boy at war with himself; Daniel,...