Bookish Academy Awards Book Tag

I saw Regan of Peruse Project do this tag on Youtube and I thought it was such a fun idea that I wanted to do it too. All the books I'm using are from 2017, and I hope to start doing this tag every year. This was really fun for me to do and I hope you guys enjoy it! I will link the original creator here. 

Best Actor: Best Male Protagonist

My pick would have to be Noah Shaw. He is the perfect combination of cocky asshole and compassionate dreamboat. 

Best Actress: Best Female Protagonist

After much debate, I finally settled on Banks from Hideaway by Penelope Douglas. Banks is everything I love in a female character. She doesn’t take peoples shit, she’s hella smart, and she’s independent. 

Best Cinematography: Best Plot Twist

Scandal Never Sleeps. From the title, you can probably tell that the novel is gonna have a ton of twists and turns. Spoiler Alert it does. Because I don’t actually want to spoil this entire thing for you guys I will just say that the protagonist isn’t who we think she is, she isn’t who she thinks she is. 

Best Costume Design: Best Book Cover

The Castaways by Jessika Fleck has one of the most beautiful covers I’ve ever seen. That’s what initially drew me to it. The combination of the vibrant colors and the design are 10/10.

Best Supporting Actor and Actress: Best Male and Female Sidekick

Pasha from the Crown’s Game is such a sweetheart. He makes some bad decisions but I honestly can’t even hate him for it because he hates himself for it. He’s one of the most genuine characters I’ve ever read about.

Best Original Screenplay: Most Unique Plot/World

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. So obviously Neil Gaiman didn’t makeup Norse mythology, but the way he wrote it and portrayed all of it was amazing. I personally loved it.

Best Adapted Screenplay: Best Book-to-Movie Adaptation

I finally read the Princess Bride in 2017 and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that this book has one of the best adaptations of all time. There are many verbatim conversations from the book in the movie.

Best Animated Feature: A book that would work well in animated format

The Bone Witch, I think it would work way better animated than it would CGI. The thing with animation is there is so much more you can do when you have people drawing the images instead of having actual people trying to act them out. 

Best Director: A writer you discovered for the first time

The author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens agenda. This was actually the last book I read in 2017 and I’m so freaking excited to read more of her books.

Best Visual Effects: Best action in a book

Lord of Shadows is by far the best book Cassandra Clare has come out with. All her books are amazing, but with each release comes an even better novel with more high-quality actions sequences. This was not a hard choice.

Best Short Film: Best novella or short book

The Summer Palace by C. S. Pacat. It’s basically the epilogue we all wanted for the Captive Prince Series. This takes place after the contents of Kings Rising. It’s only maybe 30 pages long, but it’s enough for us all to know that everything is going to be okay, plus some other fun things. 

Best Picture: Best standalone

The One Memory of Flora Banks. I kind of wish it wasn’t a standalone because I want to know what happens with everything, there could definitely be more story there. However, this story stands amazingly on its own.

Best Documentary: Best Historical Fiction or Non-fiction

I read one nonfiction novel in 2017 and I just so happened to have loved that book. The novel I am talking about is Night by Elie Wiesel. It’s about a man and his survival of the holocaust. It’s just as heartbreaking as you think it is. I would highly recommend giving this one a read.

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January Wrap Up

I am very late with this one. In my defense, I had a lot of books I had to come up with something to say about and I couldn't always think of something.

1. Burn Before Reading 

I gave this book 3 stars. While this book as okay, it didn’t live up to my previous standards for Sara Wolf books. I love her writing style and generally the characters she writes, but this one just missed the mark for me.

2. #Nerd 

I gave this book 4 stars. This was one of those books that were better than most, but still didn’t completely have me. As much as ai enjoyed it, it didn’t have my love.

3. Undeclared 

I gave this book 3 stars. I love the Royals series that Jen Frederick writes with Elle Kennedy, yet I had never read any of her solo work until this moment. This book was okay, but once again, it just didn’t live up to the Royals series.

4. Smitten 

I gave this book 3 stars. This was cute and smutty. It took me a bit to get through this as it wasn’t the best and not very high priority, but still an enjoyable pastime.

5. Lover Enshrined 

I gave this book 5 stars. I had started this book almost a year ago, maybe it was a year ago, but I just never finished it because I wasn’t that interested in reading Phury’s story. However, I got the sudden desire to finally continue on in this series so I read this book and it was so good! I love Phury and Cormia! They have so much chemistry, I just didn’t expect it at all.

6. Tamsin 

I gave this book 3.5 stars. I feel very conflicted about this one. I could honestly write a novel on how conflicted I feel about it, but I won’t because I have a review for this book already. No need for more word vomit.

7. Stolen 

I gave this book 3 stars. I almost didn’t read this book because of how much I hated the final book in the original trilogy. However, I decided to give this a go because I was hoping so much that it would be better. I liked how we got to see Clare and Shephard and the healing process after what happened. I also loved the extension of the world and we got to see more of Shepherd’s plot play out. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the main storyline however, it felt a bit off at times and I wasn’t really comfortable with them.

8. #Junkie 

I gave this book 4 stars. My one gripe about this book is that I wish the story could have been condensed into one book. My whole issue with this and #Nerd is that I wish it was more of a one book per couple sort of thing. I tend to not like NA romances to be drawn out for more than one book, it’s really a personal preference.

9. A Penny Lost 

I gave this book 4.25 stars. Time travel books are my guilty pleasure. This one definitely fed my desire to read more time travel books. I can’t wait to continue on in the series and see where our characters head to next.

10. Wingless 

I gave this book 3 stars. I wasn’t entirely impressed by this book, but it did have lots of potential to be a great series.

11. Love Between Enemies 

I gave this book 2 stars. It just boggles my mind that people read this book and thought that it was cute. This book pissed me off and the more I think about it the more I actually want to take away a star. I won’t because I don’t feel like going back and changing all my reviews that I’ve already posted, but that doesn’t change the fact that this book wasn’t good. 

12. Pretty Dead Girls 

I gave this book 5 stars. I loved this book. I don’t know where, to begin with, this book. I didn’t think I would like it but I really did. The author really pulled out all the stops on this one.

13. Wolfsong 

I gave this book 5 stars. Hands down the best book I read this month. I won’t even try to explain to you why this book is so great or even tell you what it’s about. You should just go in blind and know that this book is one of the best I’ve ever read.

14. Him 

I gave this book 3.5 stars. This one was a lot better than the first. I’m actually pretty excited to read the next book in this series to see how it can top this one. This series is definitely on a rise. My one major gripe is that it’s so short. I honestly wish the author would just write one longer novel rather than these short novellas.

15. 1984 

I gave this book 3 stars. Had to read this for a class. Everyone else seemed to love it and I just can’t seem to get into it. I get the important message, but much like Lord of the Flies, it felt a bit dry to me. It was mostly the protagonist doing things that made me feel gross.

16. Double-Exposition 

I gave this book 3 stars. I wanted to love this book so much, but it really just came up short. I didn’t really like the couple all that much. It was passable, but I won’t be continuing on with this series.

17. Lover Avenged 

I gave this book 4 stars. I’m loving these characters more and more as we go along. I had to give this one 4 stars because I felt that our main couples relationship sort of faded out and got overshadowed by other events in the book. 

18. Angel 

I gave this book 4.5 stars. Read this one in a couple of hours and I loved it. I’ve noticed that Angel was so much nicer than all the other made men. I mean, he’s by no means a nice guy, but he’s a lot nicer to Adalyn than some of the other men were to their girlfriends, definitely less controlling.

What were some of your faves of the month?

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November Wrap Up

I started working on this Wrap Up on November 30th, but I got distracted and just left the tab open and just forgot about it until now, six days later. Also, if you've been wondering why I haven't been posting a lot int eh past couple of weeks, it's just because my life has been crazy, I'm a bit stressed over some things and haven't had a lot of time for other things. Basically, it's been a choice between blogging or reading books to blog about and reading has been winning that battle. Don't worry though, I have lots of fun posts planned!

1. The First Kiss Hypothesis 

I gave this book 2 stars. I was surprisingly underwhelmed by this book. Honestly, I've already forgotten what happened, but I don't really care because it wasn't too remarkable.

2. The Becoming of Noah Shaw 

I gave this book 5 Stars. I wanted to scream after reading this book! It was so good and I plan to get a physical copy as soon as possible. I am incredibly excited to see where the author goes with this series.

3. Scion of the Fox 

I gave this book 4 stars. This book hit me like a truck, I was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Incredibly fresh storyline and hopefully there will be an equally exciting sequel.

4. Defying her Mafioso 

I gave this book 4 stars. Very sexy, and a very quick read. If you like romances about the mafia, then I would definitely recommend this one.

5. Huntress of the Night 

I gave this book 4 stars. Rita Stradling never lets me down. This book was no exception to the amazingness that is Rita Stradling's writing. There was one glaring flaw in the plot in that it's a love story about the VIRGIN goddess, other than that I had no problems.

6. His Mafioso Princess 

I gave this book 3 Stars. Wasn't as good as the first book was, but still pretty good.

7. Badd Motherfucker 

I gave this book 4 stars. After months of seeing all these people raving about the Badd Brothers series, I finally had to pick it up. I wasn't overly impressed, but it wasn't terrible.

8. All the Crooked Saints 

I gave this book 4 stars. I was gonna write a full review for this one, but I don't think I will because I really don't know what to say. I enjoyed it, but I don't think I really understood what happened. I didn't understand the whole miracle thing. I love the authors writing though.

9. Badd Ass 

I gave this book 3 stars. It was okay, I still liked the first book better.

10. Badd to the Bone 

I gave this book 3 stars. The series seemed to go downhill from the first book and I wasn't really feeling it.

11. Badd Luck 

I gave this book 3 stars. At this point, I don't really understand the hype of this series.

12. Badd Mojo 

I gave this book 3 stars. I'm getting through this book just so I could get to the next book. Also, I am aware I skipped a book in the middle, I will get to that one eventually, I just wasn't feeling it at the time.

13. The Client 

I gave this book 4 stars. This was filled with heat and humor. It was a book that made me feel giddy for the first time in a long time. I don't get that giddy feeling a lot anymore when reading books but it was present here and I have nothing but good things to say about that.

14. Obsession Mine 

I gave this book 5 stars. I've been waiting so long for this book to finally come out, I read it quickly and now I have to wait even longer for the next book. Tip: If you plan to read this series, wait till all the books are out and binge them. Do not make the same mistakes as me.

15. Unknown 

I gave this book 3.5 stars. Off to a rocky start, but made a comeback near the end. Very good introduction to the world and characters in a way that we sympathize with them.

16. Unrest 

I gave this book 4.5 stars. Way better than the first book, a complete expansion of the world and the characters. Went from Dystopian to Sci-fi, but wasn't a rough transition.

17. Undone 

I gave this book 5 Stars. Best of the series, perfect blend of two protagonists in their efforts to win the war. There was a perfect amount of logic and emotion behind the story.

What books did you guys read in November?