Best of the Bunch is a book blog hop hosted over at Always Lost in Stories on the last day of each month, where we can look back over the books we have read over this past month and give a Best of the Bunch award to our favorite book of that month.
March 2014
I read so many amazing books this month! I can’t believe how many 4.5 and 5 star reviews I posted!
This month I reviewed the following:
- This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales | Review | Rating: 4.5/5
- The Star Thief by Jamie Grey | Review | Rating 4.5/5
- Saving Quinton by Jessica Sorenson | Review | Rating 5/5
- The Violet Hour by Whitney A Miller | Review | Rating 4/5
- Almost by Anne Eliot | Review | Rating 4.5/5
- Hopeless by Colleen Hoover | Review | Rating 5/5
- All of You by Christina Lee | Review | Rating 3.5/5
- Golden Stair by Jennifer Blackstream | Review | Rating 5/5
- Don’t Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski | Review | Rating 3.5/5
- True North: Finding Home by Allie Juliette Mousseau | Review 5/5
- Angelfall by Susan Ee | Review | Rating 4.5/5
- Severed Colours by Dawna Raver | Review | Rating: 3.5/5
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
This month was really tough to pick a winner. I read SO many great books in March for some reason!! But The Sea of Tranquility was just so amazing – it barely edged out some others.
Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay.
Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.
Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.
The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
Runners Up:
Now that you know what I read in March, here’s how those books fit into the various challenges I’ve entered for 2014:
Read So Far: 31
Wow, sounds like a good month! I loved Angelfall. Thanks for giving me more to add to my TBR pile 🙂
It really was a great reading month!!
Is the guy in Anne Eliot’s book ice-hockey player (the synopsis just says hockey)?? Because I just got really excited.
Yes, it is ice-hockey. Guess that makes you love him already? 🙂
Oh my! So many books! How do you do it? In just one month? Wow! I really want to read the Sea of Tranquility! Heard nothing but great things about it!I also want to read this song will save your life. Sounds like a cool read! Congrats on all your achievements this month!
You’ve done well Nicole! You have read lots of awesome books! I’m off to read your Obsession review!
Naomi @ Nomi’s Paranormal Palace
Oooh- I loved Angelfall! I still need to read the next one though. I’ve been wanting to read This Song Will Save Your Life for ages too.
Sea of Tranquility looks great as well- I’ll have to check it out 🙂