BBB's 2011 Book Awards
It's the first Book Awards over at BBB! I've read nearly 150 books this year and these are the best -
and the worst of books I've read this year.
Best
Dystopia
It took some thinking but my pick for this year's
Dystopian is Crossed
by Ally Condie. After waiting about a year for it after
devouring Matches, it really lived up to expectations and I was
surprised that Ky got a say in Crossed.
Best Contemporary
Hate
List by Jennifer Brown was my most memorable contemporary
this year and I'll happily re-read it again and again! Although it's
a pretty thick book, I found myself flying through the pages with
ease.
Best Historical
Giving a very descriptive account of life during
the Plague, At
the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper just squeezed
past Revolution (which is only partly Historical, I have to admit). I
can still remember this story vividly and look forward to the sequel,
which is why I chose it!
Best Indie
This one is an easy one! Flat-Out
Love by Jessica Park had me in fits of giggles and made me
read out a lot of passages to my partner. I'll always remember this
one fondly!
This nomination is for a book that is beautiful on
the inside! I have to pick Low
Red Moon by Ivy Devlin for this, as the word moon
is in red and the chapter headers are beautiful.
Best
Cover
Took A LOT of thinking about but in the end I had
to go with The
Goddess Test by Aimee Carter, whose publishers chose a model
that looks like Megan Fox!
Most Unique Plot
Ultraviolet
by R.J. Anderson kept me guessing right until the very end
with it's many twists and turns!
Page Turner
Despite the size of it, Blood
by Red by Moira Young was devoured within 3 hours!
Book I Read More Than Once
I loved the cover and I love the story - The
Goddess Test by Aimee Carter gets it again!
And
the worst...
Eve
by Anna Carey is almost worst than it's badly shopped cover,
if you can believe that!
Worst Historical
Despite a lot of rave reviews from other bloggers,
Prisoner
of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin almost put me to sleep,
it was very long, very boring and the characters added nothing to the
story.
Worst Cover
'Hi, this is the back of my head.' Seriously,
Fallen
Grace by Mary Hooper?
The Most Disappointing
Ah, I waited for a long time for this sequel but
alas, Where
She Went by Gayle Forman did not live up to my expectations.
It was barely a story, just a piece for the fans.
And the one that made me angry...
If you want to really, really, really have me
ranting about you, the best way to do it is to mess up a Historical
detail, one so obvious that you could find it out on Wikipedia. So,
Raven
Queen by Pauline Francis, this one goes to you, for
destroying a moment in history so badly, I nearly threw the book
across the room.
Of course, I have to have an overall winner of
awesomeness, with a big shiny star, a special place on my shelf and
my shoving copies in everyone's faces. This year, that award goes
to...
Plain Kate by Erin
Bow
Yup, this one is my favourite this
year! I cried with sadness, happiness, every emotion at the
awesomeness of this book! You should go read it. Now. It has a
talking cat in it. Go buy it.
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