Transitive Verve

I decided to keep close track of the books I read this year for the Goodreads Reading Challenge, which is not something I've done before (and this blog only just began in March!), so this is my first top ten list! These are my favorite books that were released this year. I know there are a GREAT many books that were left off my list (like books from Sabaa Tahir, Rainbow Rowell, Patrick Ness, etc.), and that's because I haven't gotten around to reading them yet! I know, sacrilege! If only there were more hours in the day and more of me to get things done. But these are my top ten that I've read  from this year. Without further ado, here they are, in no particular order: Illuminae  by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Okay, I know I said "in no particular order," but I'd be lying if I didn't say that this was probably my FAVORITE book from this year. It was clever and unique in terms of its format, but it also just had a fantastic, gripping story. ...

This copy was provided for free from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Thoughts at a glance: **** (It was really good) Zoe Webster has just moved to River Heights, following her parents' divorce. She doesn't really like it there, and it's difficult to make friends. The only "friend" she has is this weird guy named Philip Digby. She's planning to keep her nose to the grindstone and hightail it out of that town to attend a fancy private school so that she can eventually go to Princeton.  Digby shows up on her doorstep one day, and without so much as a polite introduction, he drags her into a whirlwind of crazy adventures. Digby has taken it upon himself to investigate the disappearance of a local teenage girl, and he's doing it his way, which happens to involve, for example, breaking and entering into a gynecologist's office (twice), snooping around drug dealers, and showing up in Zoe's window at odd hours of the night a...