My Best Reads of 2015

My Favorite Books Read In 2015:

Now I know a majority of these book were released prior to 2015, but discovering these novels throughout this past year made time well spent reading. So I hope you enjoy my favorite picks of 2015 and take a stroll down my reading memory lane.

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Romantic Comedies:

"Part-Time Princess" 
(Ladies in Waiting #1) 
by Pamela DuMond
Genre: New Adult & Romantic Comedy, 314 pages
Price: $3.99 ebook (at time of post)

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"The Misadventures of Maggie Moore" 
by Michelle Graves

Genre: Romantic Comedy and Woman's Fiction. 256 pages.

Price: $3.99 ebook (at time of post)

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Fairytale/Folklore:
"The Mermaid's Sister" 
by Carrie Anne Noble

Genre: Fairy Tales, Folklore & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, 237 pages.

Price: $4.99 ebook (at time of post)

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"Fairy Tale Confessions" 

by 14 Bestselling Authors

Genre: Fairy tales, Short Stories, Box Set. 390 pages.

Price: $0.99 ebook (at time of post)

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Historical Fiction:
"The Crown in the Heather" 
(The Bruce Trilogy, Book 1) 
by N. Gemini Sasson

Genre: Action, Adventure, Biographical, Historical Fiction. 301 pages

Price: $0 FREE (at time of post)

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Mystery/Suspense:

"Vanishing Girls" 
by Lauren Oliver

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, Mystery, 
Social & Family Issues, Thriller. 373 pages

Price: $3.99 ebook (at time of post)

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"Dearest Clementine" 

by Lex Martin

Genre: New Adult, Mystery, Suspense, Contemporary Romance. 370 pages.

Price: $0.99 ebook (at time of post)

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"Keeping The Tarnished" 

by Brandon Nave

Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Psychological Thriller. 250 pages.

Price: $3.99 ebook (at time of post)

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Dystopian:

"Intransigent" 

 (The After Light Saga, Book 3)
by Cameo Renae

Genre: Young Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, and Romance.  186 pages.

Price:  $3.99 ebook (at time of post)

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"Omega"
 (Omega Series, Book 1)

by Lizzy Ford

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy SciFi, Dystopian, 
Greek Myths & Legends. 300 pages.

Price: $3.99 ebook (at time of post)

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**Checkout the Omega Spotlight Saturday Post to read my review and read up on the Omega Beginning Miniseries: Click Here**

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Paranormal:

"Turn of the Moon"

 (A Royal Shifters Novel, Book 1)

by L.P. Dover

Genre: Paranormal Romance and Suspense. 331 pages.

Price: $0.99 ebook (at time of post)

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Contemporary Romance:
"This Means War"

by A.M. Wray

Genres: Suspense and Contemporary Romance
Price: $0.99 ebook (at time of post)
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"Roommates"

by Erin Leigh

Genre: Contemporary, Sports Romance. 301 pages.

Price: $1.99 ebook (at time of post)

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"True Love"

(A Songbird Novel, Book 5)

by Melissa Pearl

Genre: Contemporary Romance. 266 pages.

Price: $2.99 ebook (at time of post)

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Action-Adventure:

"Encrypted" 

by Carolyn McCray

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Mystery. 555 pages

Price: $2.99 ebook (at time of post)

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Short Story:

"The Hanging Tree"

by Michael Phillip Cash

Genre:  Short Read, Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense, 
Ghosts, Thriller. 91 pages.

Price: $0.99 ebook (at time of post)

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My Goodreads Record:

I know for a fact that I've read waaay more books than just the novels I've pressed "Read" on goodreads.com this past year. But I've got to say it was quite fun and a bit of an ego boost to see I was so may books ahead of my challenge or that I had read so many such and such pages by this many months. I'm definitely doing this way of tracking again this coming year just for fun if not to just know my relative reading numbers per year.

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Vanishing Girls

by Lauren Oliver

Price dropped as of December 14, 2015

from $8.89 to $3.99 (That's a 55% Price Drop)

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My Blog Review:  April 3, 2015

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Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

Price dropped as of May 23, 2015

from $8.89 to $1.99 (That's a 77% Price Drop)

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My Blog Review:  April 3, 2015

The Mermaid's Sister by Carrie Anne Noble

Price dropped as of May 23, 2015

from $4.99 to $1.99 (that's a 60% Price Drop)

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My Blog Review:  February 2, 2015

"Friday Favs": Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, Mystery, Social & Family Issues, Thriller. 373 pages

Price: $8.89 ebook, $14.29 Hardback (at time of post)

Publisher & Date: HarperCollins. March 10, 2015

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Listed Rating:  . 1

Price I Paid: $4.49 (pre-ordered price on December 30, 2014)

My Rating: 

My Thoughts: A Good Mystery and A Surprise Ending

      Lauren Oliver has done it again, delivering yet another compelling complex novel that keeps a reader interested from beginning to end. This is an upper and very edgy Y.A. novel, due to the content and language. Oliver's writing style is unique and seems written primarily for a certain group of readers, as in if you have a sister you will most likely find this book highly emotional and significant. However, the story itself is still compelling enough to be read by any reader who loves a good mystery and surprise ending. 

      The main character and heroine of the story is Nicole Warren, but her family and friends call her Nick. The book is mainly about Nick trying to resolve her life post-car accident, where she walked away with only a concussion, but her sister Dara, not so much. Nick divulges that Dara is her opposite and is the very crazy party social going little sister. Being the oldest Nick covers for her, but covering for Dara may have been what lead to their accident if only she could remember. Memory is a delicate and fuzzy thing for Nicole but she has Dara and Parker, John Parker, who was their 3rd best friend until they grew up and relationships emerged, making everything a mess between them all. Meanwhile, there is a town wide search for a missing 9 year old girl and Dara might know or be involved, which means Nick might need to get involved. She is Dara's big sister after all, right?

      Overall, great story very suspenseful and literary. This book certainly seemed to be written with a key readership in mind. I for one felt a keen connection to the story and it's characters due to my current life circumstances. Coincidentally I'm currently stuck at home with a concussion from a car accident and I dearly love my younger sister, oh and I live in a city of Norwalk. It was rather creepy how close this book mirrored me at first but I was so quickly enraptured by the story that I forgot my life and became enfolded by Nick's and Dara's lives. Truthfully this book was a great story to get lost in and a wonderful read that captures the reader, so they'd be blown away by the revealing ending, which took me by surprise. Oliver's characters touch on the aspects of the loss of family, childhood, love, innocence, finding one's self and growing up into different people. Through the use of dual narrative, flashbacks and a diary type format the reader gets the sense of being talked to and given a personal insight into the feelings of the characters. Readers can't help but feel a sense of empathy and connection with the characters and want all of them to work out their issues and have their "HEA". What Oliver crafted here in this book is a strange but great story that had a sense of suspense, mystery and hope. You'll just have to read the book to see the hope part, but it's quite a story and the ending is such a twist that it had me reaching for my phone texting my sister to say I love you.