Books That Kept Me 'Up All Night' In 2016...

It's been a pretty awful year this year, to put it mildly! Life on the blog hasn't exactly been wonderful but 2017 promises to be better. I won't be gallivanting about as much next year, hopefully, so posting will be a lot more regular than this year. Before I post my 'Best Of...' lists I wanted to put together a list of my 'five clocks' books, and there's been a few! It may have been a bad blogging year but it certainly hasn't been a bad reading year. The list includes my top re-reads (marked with a *) and is in alphabetical order, mostly...

13 Minutes - Sarah Pinborough

A Child of Books - Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston

A Fever Of The Blood - Oscar de Muriel

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms - George R R Martin

A Perilous Beginning - Deanna Raybourn

A Portable Shelter  - Kirsty Logan

Alice - Christina Henry

All About Pumpkin - Natasha Farrant

*And Then There Were None

The Apprentice Witch - James Nicol

Barefoot On The Wind - Zoe Marriott

Becoming Unbecoming - Una 

Behind Closed Doors - B A Paris

Blackfin Sky - Kat Ellis

Blue Lily Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater

*Cinder - Marissa Meyer

The Creeper Man - Dawn Kurtagich

Cress - Marissa Meyer

*Crown of Midnight - Sarah J Maas

The Damage Done - James Oswald

The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black 

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers

The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater

Fables: Arabian Nights (And Days)

Fables: Homeland

Fables: March Of The Wooden Soldiers

Fables: The Mean Seasons

Fables: Wolves

Golden Son - Pierce Brown

The Hawley Book Of The Dead - Chrysler Szarlan

The Imaginary - A. F. Harrold  & Emily Gravett

In The Woods - Tana French

Lockwood & Co. - The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Luna: New Moon - Ian McDonald

The Marriage Lie - Kimberley Belle

*The Mysterious Affair At Styles

*The Mysterious Mr. Quin

Natural Causes - James Oswald
*The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Orbiting Jupiter - Gary D Schmidt

*The Owl Service - Alan Garner 

Painkiller - N J Fountain

Phoenix - S F Said

Poppy Pym & The Double Jinx - Laura Wood

Prayer For The Dead - James Oswald

Rat Queens Vol. I

*Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Saga Vol. I

Saga Vol. II

Saga Vol. III

Saga Vol. IV

Saga Vol. V 

Shadow Magic - Joshua Khan

Shadows On The Moon - Zoe Marriott

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying Of The Light - Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of The Wicked - Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Last Stand Of Dead Men - Derek Landy

Tadpole's Promise (picture book)

Things The Grandchildren Should Know

Time For Jas - Natasha Farrant

The Unquiet House - Alison Littlewood

The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall - Karen McCombie

Top Ten Tuesday #98 - Series I Have YET to Finish

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the wonderful gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Series I Have YET to Finish

The prompt is really FINISHED series I have yet to finish but I've gone with series that are both finished & unfinished as there are a lot of them on my Goodreads!

Codex Alera - Jim Butcher

King Rolen's Kin - Rowena Cory Daniells

Falling Kingdoms - Morgan Rhodes

Glamourist Histories - Mary Robinette Kowal

Bloodlines - Richelle Mead

Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas

The Grisha - Leigh Bardugo

Under The Never Sky - Veronica Rossi

Morganville Vampires - Rachel Caine

Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Rick Riordan

Top Ten Tuesday #90 - Books I Plan To Have In My Book Bag On Vacation!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books I Plan To Have In My Beach Bag This Summer

I've changed this slightly as I'm on vacation right now, hopefully with a bag of really great books, some great weather and getting some quality reading time in! This is pretty much what I'm going to try and squeeze in my bag, whether I get to read them all is another matter! I've picked a mix of new and old with a few re-reads thrown in and a couple of titles to finish off too.

Book Haul #100

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

My name is Fi and I'm a bookaholic, it's been thirty eight days since I last bought a book and I want need to buy books!!! Seriously though, I'm still on the straight and narrow when it comes to book buying. I think this may well be the longest I have ever gone without buying a book since I was too young to buy books myself, a very long time ago... I suspect that the amazing review books I've received this week have something to do with it all again. I've been so excited about review books that I've not had the inclination (much!) to buy books. Only thing is my last couple of requests were approved this week and one last-minute request on Netgalley/Edelweiss and I got great book mail so Operation Netgalley/Edelweiss Cold Turkey hasn't started yet. Definitely Monday though... 

For Review

Cleo | The Girl At Midnight | Sisters of Blood & Spirit

A Court of Thorns & Roses | A Darker Shade of Magic | Finn Fancy Necromancy

Disclaimer | The Mechanical | Pacific Fire

YA Books To Look Out For In 2015

There are some amazing books coming out this year in the YA world so I thought I'd highlight a few I can't wait to get my hands on :)

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Top Ten Tuesday #72 - Characters You Wish Would Get Their OWN Book

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Characters You Wish Would Get Their OWN Book

I'm guilty of not always paying attention to the secondary characters in books apart from the odd one who sticks in my mind for some reason. These are the characters I remember most vividly including one which is a bit of a cheat!

Auri

Patrick Rothfuss must have read my mind. Auri is one of my favorite characters so I can't wait to read Slow Regard!

 Jasper

I know Twilight is hugely unpopular these days but given Jasper's history I would love to read a book just about him. He is definitely the most interesting of the Cullen clan!

Chaol

Just because...

Finnick

Same as above!

Haymitch

I would love to read about Haymitch's younger days, when he won the Games especially.

Ian

Aside from Cat & Bones, Ian is my favorite character. I would definitely read a book where he was the main character.

Nix aka Nucking Futs Nix

Nix, oh Nix! I love her antics and she is without doubt my favorite in all of the Immortals After Dark books that I've read.

Calliope

I've only recently binge read my way through all three of Stephanie Perkins' books and Calliope is the only character I feel we didn't learn anything about or get her own Happily Ever After. This must be rectified!

Hermione, Luna & Snape

Who doesn't want to know more about some of the most loved characters in fiction? I would love to read a book about Snape as a child and growing up

Top Ten Tuesday #58 - Books On My Summer TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR List

I don't know why I make TBR lists because I never end up reading anything on them! Hopefully this time will be different as I really want to read lots of books this summer but these books most of all. I need to re-read Bone Season, I loved it the first time but never wrote a review, the second book is out in mere months and I think it's time to refresh my memory of Paige's world. The rest are all review books or books I own that I want to make time for, hopefully two weeks away from home will include plenty of reading :)

The Bone Season | Take Back the Skies | The Girl Who Never Was

The Islands of Chaldea | Smiler's Fair

Heir of Fire | Falling Into Place | Winterspell

Dorothy Must Die | Anna & the French Kiss