This
week’s Top Ten Tuesday is based on favourites of 2013. These aren’t books that
necessarily came out in 2013, but books that I read in 2013. The Top Ten
Tuesday meme is as always hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. And here is my
list of some books that have made me all excited in 2013.
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I’m
not cheating, shut up. Slated and Fractured are the two first books in a
trilogy. They are spectacular. It’s about a girl named Kyla who has had all her
memories removed, she’s been Slated. It is because she’s done something bad,
presumably, and teenagers can be Slated and given a new chance. Kyla starts
getting her memories back. The world she lives in is really creepy and
well-written. It’s basically London in the future and the UK has become a
police state. It’s so scary and cool. And yes, I loved them both. I’m really
looking forward to the third book. I think I need to reread the other two when
the last one comes out.

This is a
Norwegian classic. I’ve been meaning to read it forever. It should be read when
you’re in school, but I don’t think it is taught in school in Norway. Anyway.
It’s a critique of the Norwegian school system in the 50s. A kid who is
dyslexic, Jonas, is held back in school, because he can’t keep up. He is sent
to a school for “stupid” kids and he runs away. It also goes through the
stories of other people, people who are connected to Jonas and have been let
down by the system. Bjørneboe is so angry and so awesome, and I loved it.
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O-M-G. I
want the next one. It was laugh out loud funny. Seriously. The princes are so
sweet and hilarious. The princesses are badasses. It was so brilliant.
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I’m not
sure if I have words, it was so stunning, and there were angels, and it was a
lot of fun. And I want the next one right now. I want Karou and Akiva. I want
more of them. I want them to be together. I got all weepy. Oh it was so
beautiful.
I love
Jane Austen. If she were alive I would marry her. Because that wouldn’t be
weird.
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Not a
fictional book, which is nice, mixing it up a little. It was so funny, and
sometimes it’s sad, but Lawson writes it so well and so funny, she’s hilarious,
and even if something bad happens she handles it with such grace and such
awesome mood and she’s beautiful. And I laughed out loud. Sitting outside, in a
park. People lookin’ at me. I had so much fun.
Sisters Red – Jackson Pearce
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I love
fairy tales. I was told fairy tales when I was a kid, I think, or at least I
had fairy tale books. And I love them. This is a weird, awesome, version of
Little Red Riding Hood. Two sisters, Scarlett and Rosie, fight Fenris, who are
a sort of werewolf type monster. Scarlett is so badass and cool, and I loved
the concept. I also liked that the fairy tale isn’t overwhelming. I think it
can be hard to redo LRRH without making just a carbon copy, because there is so much that has to be in it to clearly make it a LRRH retelling, but how do you not make it too obvious? This was different
and fresh.
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I am so
in love with A Song of Ice and Fire. I watched all of Game of Thrones. I love
it. I was so excited, and I wasn’t aware that there were more books coming, so
I kind of freaked out. Found out there were more books, did internal happy
dance. They are so awesome.
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Neil
Gaiman is so great. He writes creepy, weird stories that makes your skin crawl,
and that make you just keep reading. And I am so looking forward to the last
Gaiman book, is exciting. So yeah, I just really like him, and so far all his
books have lived up to the Gaiman ness of it all.
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Again a
fairy tale retelling, and again LRRH. It’s the second book in the Lunar
Chronicles, and it’s a lot of fun. It’s based on LRRH, and you just see little
traces of it, the book tries to not be too overt, and it mainly succeeds, there’s
a guy named Wolf and there’s a girl with a red hoodie, but it is set in France
in the future, so it also is a bit different, although apparently there is a
traditional LRRH that is also set in France, I didn’t know that, very cool. And
there is more Cinder (from the first book), and her new friend, who I am
falling in love with guys. It was just a lot of fun. I am really excited for
Cress, which I think will be out in winter 2014, and I think it’s based on
Rapunzel. Yes it is (see me research). And then another year to wait for
Winter, the final instalment, based on Snow White. Excited as hell.