Riot Grrrl Reads

So, I was thinking about post ideas for this blog, and I thought why not do a meme? Top 5 Friday is a really good one for me because I have much more time to post on Friday, so check back every Friday for another Top Five Friday meme!

This week I'm going to do Book Covers: I seriously want to own all of these books, and their contents (which hopefully lives up to the stunning covers!). Also please note: There are many other covers I love just as much, and it was really hard to decide. And these are in no particular order because come on... that is just an impossible task!


The Selection Series by Kiera Cass

I don't actually own these, but my sister does, and they look so amazing on her shelf! I haven't read them yet (but desperately want to), but she has, and she was said they're amazing, so I'm really looking forward to reading them.


The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

It was pretty much impossible to choose between this series, and The Mortal Instruments (because they're the same style and both really stunning) but I chose this because I enjoyed them a tiny bit more than TMI. It's one of my all-time favourite series, and the covers are amazing too, so I just love everything about this trilogy!

Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi

I have only read Shatter Me (read my review here) out of this series so far, but I really plan to buy the rest soon! The covers are just so amazing, I love all the detail too. Shatter Me was a really good book, so I am absolutely desperate to buy the rest.







Firebird Trilogy (last cover not released yet) by Claudia Gray

I need these right now! The covers are SO beautiful, and the story seems great too. I really need these so much - my birthday is coming up, so hopefully I will get some money to buy these with!



I'll Give You the Sun and The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

Okay, so I kind-of cheated with this once, but how am I meant to choose between these two? Also, these covers look like a series together so... that's OK, right? I have them both, but my cover of TSiE is different - still pretty, but not as stunning as the one in the picture. I have read I'll Give you the Sun (review here), and it has been my only 5 star review on this blog so far. I loved it so much, and I expect to love The Sky is Everywhere just as much - Jandy Nelson's style of writing is so good.

So that's it for this week's Top Five Friday! What did you think of it? Are you looking forward to my next meme? Let me know in the comments!

I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson

Source: Book depository
Page count: 371
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Realism, LGBTQ+

Goodreads Synopsis:

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

My Review:

Ohmygosh this book was amazing! I loved every part of it (especially the cover - it's so beautiful!), and in my opinion, it definitely could have been longer. This could be continued into a 10 book series and I would love them all. Everything about this book is just so great, and I could read (and re-read) it forever!

I was hooked throughout the whole book. From the very beginning I was gripped. I would have even read it in one sitting if I could have.

It was so cleverly crafted - everything linked back together at the end (which must have been even harder because it was told through 2 different narrators, who were in 2 different times) really well. It had so much emotion in it - I actually welled up at the end with happy tears, which doesn't often happen to me! I was grinning, laughing, and burying my face in my hands with embarrassment at different points in the book - it really reached out to me.

My only minor (and this didn't really bother me at all, I'm just nit-picking here) problem was that the British character in it didn't seem British at all. He just sounded like what an American would do for an impression of a British person (the author is American...), which kind of annoyed me, but it didn't bother me too much. As I got into the book, he just sounded like all the other characters, but I feel like I can't write a review that's all good!

I think everyone should read this book. I recommend it to everyone, and it's instantly my absolute favourite contemporary. It might even be one of my new favourite books!

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