Hello everyone!
I decided to do a little end view on my 2018, the best books I've read and my reading challenge. This year is my first year as a book reviewer and a blogger. I can say it was a lot of work for us, starting and maintaining this blog (there is always more, ha), but when I look back I can say I am pretty satisfied with everything we've accomplished since starting it.



I've completed my reading challenge (50 books) by reading 81 books in total, which is the most I've ever read in one year. Yay. It was a crazy year, with lots of great books, mostly YA fiction, fantasy or sci-fi. There were a few books I that I was eagerly expecting and counted days until their release and they didn't disappoint me at all. I will just point out some bookish highlights of 2018, like the longest and the ones I liked the most.
I'll just go through my Goodreads reading challenge chronologically and pick the winners, the order in which I list them isn't by likeability.

1.  Six of Crows duology

I decided to read this book earlier this year because of the huge hype that surrounded it. And I was absolutely delighted. This book has everything I want a good story to have, it's a little bit dark with amazing characters, squad goals, heist, plot twists and cool world building. Leigh Bardugo is one of my favorite authors and I am looking forward to her new duology about Nikolai :P

2. Stalking Jack the Ripper

Historical novel, Victorian Era. Is there anything else I need to say. I read the first two books in July and Escaping from Houdini was released in September and they were just... wow. The more I read them the better they got and I can't be sadder about the fact that THIS YEAR the last book will be released.

3. The Lunar Chronicles

Although I didn't quite like them from the beginning, these books were a big part of my 2018. In each, there were more characters to love and they are squad goals at it's finest.

4. Cruel Prince

Aside from being 2018 highlight, this book also became a highlight of my sadly, reading life. I didn't think I would enjoy a story about faeries so much, but the amount of scheming, politics, betrayal, and drama this book contains can't be ignored.

5. The Young Elites

First, Marie Lu mentions that Adelina is inspired by Darth Vader, is there anything else you need to love this book. Abused girl with enormous power, driven by blindless hatred, the amount of amazingness this book contains left me speechless multiple times.

6. Queen of Air and Darkness

A long-awaited sequel to The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare. I was really looking forward to this book, but it didn't quite live up to y expectations. It was really good, a 5 star read for sure, but how it was described and awaited I expected much more. It was still a big and important read since it was really long (the second longest, after 1008 pages of Kingdom of Ash).



So these would be the books that marked my 2018. Sure, there were lots of other great books I liked, but it would be too long to just list them all. I was planning to finish this post back in 2018, but I didn't make it, so it has a purpose of a little throwback.