Hey guys it's Trina. Today I'm doing the mid-year book freak out tag. This was
originally created by Chami from the channel Read Like Wildfire and Ely
from the channel Earl Grey Books. I wanted to do this tag for like the past
couple years and I just always kind of missed the mid year time frame to film
it and post it, so I'm doing it this year though! So the first question is what's the
best book you've read so far in 2017? That is definitely The Hate U Give by
Angie Thomas. I really love this book and I thought it was especially amazing as a
debut novel. I just thought that she was an
incredible writer, she really brought this character and the location to life
and the story is very important and also just very real, so I just really enjoyed
everything about this book. Can't recommend it highly enough. Question 2 is
what is the best sequel you've read so far this year, and for me that is Waking
Gods by Sylvain Neuvel. This is the sequel to Sleeping Giants. This is an
adult science fiction series and I liked the first one but I LOVED the second
book. I listened to both of these on audiobook and that is definitely the
format that I would recommend if you have that option available to you
because this entire series takes place in the form of transcripts of interviews
and diaries that have been recorded so listening to the series is just very
organic and really fitting it to the story and how it is meant to be told. But
when I listened to this book I just could not stop geeking out about it. This
is my fangirl experience of 2017 so far was with this series. Question three: a
2017 new release that you haven't read yet but really want to. Oh my gosh, for me
that is definitely The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli. I know
I'm going to love this book so much, like I can already tell that I'm going to
really really identify with the main character Molly and I have no good
excuse for hesitating to read it. I just think like, this book means so much
to me I don't want it to be over, so I'm just not even going to start it? Yeah that
makes no sense. But this is one of my most anticipated book releases of this year
and I'm really really dying to read it. Number four: what's your most anticipated
release for the rest of 2017? For me, no surprise to most of you, that is
This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis. This comes out this fall and it is
another contemporary, so this is like the first genre that Mindy McGinnis is
repeating, but it has like this edge to it where the main character doesn't know if
the things that are happening to her are really happening to her or if it's all
in her head. So I'm just really excited about that. I like novels where you don't
really know what the truth is and I love Mindy McGinnis's books so you know
this is number one on my list of new releases coming out. Number five: biggest
disappointment of the year. I think for me that was Wayfarer by Alexandra
Bracken. Wayfarer is the book that made me realize I don't get along with
Alexandra Bracken's writing. There's nothing wrong with her writing, she's a
skilled writer, but my brain does not process it well. It's overly detailed, I
get very distracted, and I cannot focus on the words on the page. The first book
in the duology was Passenger and that was the first book I ever read by
Alexandra Bracken. I read it last year when it came out and I really struggled
with the first half of that book but the end of it really made up for it to me
and I was just so excited. I was like yes I love this, I love this concept and
everything, so when Wayfarer was coming out I was very hyped for that book. I
wanted to read it and I think that I just had too high of expectations. It was a
struggle from start to finish, not just the first half, and the ending was very
unfulfilling to me. I've tried four of her books now, this is the last one,
and I just think I'm kind of done, which is not trying to be an insult to her
or her writing, it's just a you know we don't mesh well... unfortunately and Wayfarer
was the book that showed me that. Question 6: the biggest surprise of the
year. One of the easier answers for me to go with, because I've got several that
would definitely fit this one, would be Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake. This
book I think came out last fall and it got a lot of mixed reviews. I definitely
really enjoyed that book much more than I expected to. Yeah, I can't explain it. It
just really blew me away. I liked it. I think that one definitely surprised me
because I had no idea what to expect from it with all those mixed reviews.
Number seven is your favorite new to you author that you discovered in 2017. So this
year I definitely discovered that I love Ruth Ware's writing. She's an adult
thriller/mystery writer and I read The Woman in
Cabin 10 and then I read In a Dark, Dark Wood. I have had some issues with a
lot of her character descriptions. I think that she weight shames, uses some
bad stereotypes in The Woman in Cabin 10, but I think her mysteries are
a little lackluster but there's something about her writing that I
really really like. She gives these flash-forwards. Instead of flashbacks to
like fill in the back, it's flash-forwards where something has
happened and you're just reading the book like, 'wait how do we go from the
main story to this future outcome?' I just am dying to know how we got there! So she
is definitely an author who has grabbed me, she has created suspense in a way that I
love, and both of these books did that and they had that same effect on me so
I'm definitely dying to read more by Ruth Ware. Question eight: newest fictional
crush. I don't really have fictional crushes, I ship couples much more than I will
crush on like one fictional character like with me or anything, but I do want
to give you guys a recommendation in case you're looking for very swoony
fictional characters. I am currently reading when Dimple met
Rishi by Sandhya Menon. It's a contemporary romance about Indian American characters
who their parents want to set them up in an arranged marriage and one of them is
really into this idea, the other one wants nothing to do with it. I'm really
enjoying the dynamic between these two characters and just some lines that
Rishi will throw out there I'm like awww. So, you know, if you're looking for the
swoon I definitely would recommend this book. Question 9 is newest favorite
character, and I have no idea for this one honestly. I'm going to skip it. Last
year, I did have a very distinct favorite character of all the books that I read
last year and that was the dragon character Saphira from the Eragon,
Inheritance Cycle series but I don't have one
so far this year that is standing out to me as like the one character to beat all
other characters that I have read about. So ask me that again at the end of 2017.
Question 10 is a book that made you cry, and for me I sobbed big fat tears of just
every emotion when I read the March trilogy graphic novels by John Lewis. I
just think that this is an incredible real true story.
I love that John Lewis wrote this memoir of his life
and that we have this look, very personal look, into American US history and into
the civil rights movement and it just made me cry so much at realizing how, I
mean I always knew this, but you know when you read about it currently it just is a
wake up call, at how recent some of these events were in our history and just like
what all the country has been through, what all people have been through here
in America and it just definitely is a great great series, you know. It's not all
sad but that book definitely made me cry. Number 11 is a book that made you happy.
So for this one I'm going to go with like, you know, the most cliché of all
books but Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling because
this month I just have listened to the audiobook of this and it was my
first time ever listening to any of the audiobooks from this series. It's just
really delightful to be back in that world in a new format, new to me format
you know with the audio. I really really enjoyed it and it definitely just made me
happy and I did not want to stop listening to it. It was just wonderful.
Question 12 is what's your favorite book to movie adaptation that you've seen
this year? And I think the only adaptation that I've seen this year is
of Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. By default it's gotta be my favorite cuz I
think it's the only one, but I did think that it was a very loyal adaptation from what
I can remember and I did like it. So yeah, I would recommend watching that
movie if you enjoyed that book. Question 13 is what's your favorite
video that you have made it so far this year? I am very proud of the interview
that I got to do with Mindy McGinnis at SEYAFest in March because I just was really
nervous to do an author interview. I had no idea what I was doing and I was just
afraid that I came off like a total dweeb, awkwardness ensued, and you know
all that stuff, but getting to interview like one of my favorite
authors was just a really amazing experience. I'm just really glad that I
had the confidence to pursue that and then actually go through with it, you
know. Number 14 is what's the most beautiful book that you have bought or
received is so far this year? And I'm going to have to repeat a book for this
one and go with When Dimple Met Rishi again because I just think this cover
just looks like happiness and it just looks like a little ray of sunshine so I
think it's very beautiful and it's also a little bit
different. Like, usually you have really stylized, you know animated kind of
covers but this is just a photograph and I just think it looks really cool. I really love it.
And the last question is what are some
books that you really need to read by the end of this year? I really really
need to catch up on the works of Victoria Schwab because I am like
probably six books behind, but I only own these four, and I just haven't caught up
with her entire body of work and I love her as a writer so I really really need
to catch up by the end of this year on some of these books. Those are all the
questions in this tag. I would love to know from you guys what your favorite
book of 2017 so far has been. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will
see you in the comments. Bye!
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