Best of 2014



Legend trilogy

Los Angeles, California, Republic of America. Two fifteen year olds paths are crossed in an unexpected way. June is the Republic’s prodigy fit a military future ahead of her. Day is a criminal living on the streets fighting against all things the Republic and its military. When Day murders June’s older brother, she takes it on herself to hunt him down and kill him. But it doesn’t take June very long to realize that there are a lot of secrets being kept from her and trusting the Republic might not be the best thing to do, after all.

 
Cinder, Scarlet and Cress (Book one, two and three in the Lunar chronicles)

A funny, charming and witty new version on fairytale classics (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel), these three books intertwine with each other in the search for the cure to the plague, the long-lost Lunar Princess, a grandmother, a criminal escaped from prison and, of course, a body for Iko. The three girls’ lives wrap around each other and they have to work together to save Earth from the evil Lunar Queen.



Anna, Lola and Isla

Three books, three girls, three love stories. Anna and the French Kiss; the girl going to boarding school in Paris, falling in love with one of her new friends and all that comes with guiding around that. And the fact that he already has a girlfriend. Lola and the Boy Next Door; the eccentric girl who’ve always had a crush on the boy next door – until he moves away and breaks her heart. But now he’s back and he’s very hard to hid away from. Isla and the Happily Ever After; after having a three year long crush, Isla finally reaches past her shyness to confront the guy she can’t let go of, only to find that he feels the same way. But the happily ever after doesn’t come as magically as she’d hoped.



Across the Universe trilogy

Amy Martin leaves Earth with her parents frozen and neatly tucked away in a glass box onboard the spaceship Godspeed. They’re leaving for a whole new world, a planet that will save Earth. Amy, not wanting her parents to leave without her, follows them on the three hundred year long trip across the universe, only to wake up too early, almost drowning in her glass box. Saved out of that, Amy learns that she is onboard Godspeed and that they still have many years of travel left. Being unable to be refrozen, Amy have to learn to live on the spaceship with the strange crew, among them Elder. She resent being stuck on the ship but soon figures out that there are more than one thing not quite right onboard and, setting out on to solve the mystery, Amy learns a world changing truth which only leads to more mysteries and more lies.



The Gentleman Bastard sequence (book one, two and three)

Among the Right People in Camorr’s underworld lives Locke Lamora and his tightknit band of thieves. Working from the temple of Perelandro, they create wicked scheme after wicked scheme to take money from the rich. Unlike Robin Hood they don’t give it to the poor but instead keep it in the glass burrow until they know what to do with it all. But before they can figure that out they’re pulled into a war between the Capa and all the thieves of Camorr, and the Grey King. The gang needs to fight back but there are forces much stronger than them on the other side, hitting the temple hard. At first it was about going back to their old lives of scheming and stealing money, but soon it’s down to survival in a room that keep closing in on all sides.




The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves (book one and two of the Raven Cycle)

The only non-seer who sees a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve is either because you’re his true love or you killed him. And Blue, who lives in a house filled to the brim with psychics, have always been told that she will cause her true love his death. So she isn’t very thrilled when she sees the spirit of a young man on St. Mark’s Eve. It doesn’t take long for her meeting him in real life. His name is Gansey and is one of the Raven Boys. Blue has always tried to stay away from them since they’re all just trouble, but before she really knows what’s happened, she’s deeply involved in Gansey’s frantic search for an ancient legend, a Welsh king who vanished nearly thousand years ago. Thinking she can help him to live by keeping an eye on him, Blue sticks around, but her life and the life of Gansey and his three best friends intertwine and before she knows it, Blue can’t imagine not being without her Raven Boys. But there’s still so much she doesn’t know about them. Or about herself.



A Thousand Pieces of you (book one of the Firebird trilogy)

Marguerite’s parents are scientists and they have created a device which allows you to jump into parallel universes. It’s their life’s work and they’ve just gotten their first device, the Firebird, to work properly. That’s when one of their research assistants kills Marguerite’s father, steals the Firebird and disappears into another universe. Marguerite does the only thing she can think of; she uses a prototype to follow him and start her search around dimensions to catch and kill him for what he did. But on her travels through different lives, Marguerite realizes that this doesn’t just start and end with the murder of her father. It is much bigger than that. So big that she perhaps nothing will be the same every again.

Keturah and Lord Death

Keturah sees the great hart not far from her cottage and follows it into the woods. In there she gets lost and wanders around, simultaneously trying to find her way out and waiting to die. After days a man appears, a man that is Lord Death. Keturah doesn’t want to go with him and sticks a bargain. If she can find her one true love in three days, he’ll spare her life. But finding the one man you love in just three days appears to be much harder than she’d hoped and Keturah is slowly wondering if she will have to go with Lord Death anyway. Until one surprising solution appears.

Howl’s moving castle

Being the oldest of three sister, Sophie Hatter has always known her destiny in life. To take over the family hat shop. The younger sisters are sent away to learn a job and find a husband while Sophie has to help in the shop. Until one day, when the Witch of the Waste comes in and sets a curse on Sophie, turning her from a young woman to an old lady. Sophie’s only hope in getting back to her own age is to walk up to the moving castle and ask Wizard Howl to take the curse away. But rumor has it that Howl eats young women’s hearts and store their souls in his castle, which is almost enough for Sophie to accept her old body. Almost.

My life next door är egentligen inte med på listan, den råkade bara hamna på en utav bilderna och jag, för lat för att ta nya, laddade upp den ändå (men känns den intressant finns ju recensionen i arkivet). Bare with me, children. Until next year.