#TheThanksUGive : Amazing books I discovered thanks to book bloggers

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening friends! How are you ? I hope you all had a lovely week. This Thursday was Thanksgiving, and even if I am not American, this is a pretty good excuse to feel thankful, because we all should once in a while, especially here in the blogging community.

For this post, I’m participating to the special Thanksgiving celebration, hosted by Hazel @ Stay Bookish and Mishma @ Chasing Faerytales. This event was made to show our gratitude, and well…I have many, many things to thank the blogging community for. But more on that in another later post… For now, I have decided to talk about what brings us together, most commonly known as…yes, BOOKS. What else.

If you didn’t know this by now, I am a massive young adult contemporary reader. If this has been my favorite genre for years, since I started blogging, I managed to find so many great bloggers and incredible recommendations for books I wouldn’t even have thought of reading before. Some wonderful reviews from bloggers I love, and this dreaded thing called THE HYPE managed to make me branch out a bit from that genre, and read more and more what I really want to call, CRAZY  BOOKS. Filled with imagination, parallel worlds, dashing writing and a love that knows NO BOUND in the community. Endless fangirling of sorts, if you will.

Okay, enough babbling now, you are all waiting for THE BOOKS. I managed to regroup a couple of books I have discovered thanks to book blogging, and I WISH I could talk about the first blogger that made me discover each and everyone of these, but…I’m a bit like Dory when it comes to remembering things.

If there’s a book that was a definitive surprise, it’s that one. A Darker Shade of Magic, and its sequel, A Gathering of Shadows. Surprising, because I thought I wouldn’t LOVE this book as much as I did, and the slow beginning didn’t help me in feeling otherwise. Then I just realized how awesome this all was and quickly became obsessed, down to screaming “GIVE ME THE LAST BOOK NOW PLEASE.”

Check out my reviews for the books

In a few words… I didn’t know what to expect when I picked up The Raven Boys. I don’t know if I had seen such a hype around a bookish title before, and, erm, I was afraid to pick it up and hate it. Then I turned the first few pages and realized just how incredible this world was, and how magical Maggie Stiefvater’s words were. Needless to say, I’m halfway in the series and need to read more.

Check out my reviews for the books

Now there’s something funny about Illuminae. Not really, but…if it’s because of book bloggers that I got SO curious about this, it’s because of my sister that I actually brought it. We saw a French copy in a bookshop and she picked it up, was like “this looks weird. I want to read it.”. The next day I was on Amazon to order it. WHY this, you ask? I think I have never been SO nervous about a book before. Because it’s sci-fi, not one of the genres I always go to. Because the formatting is SO weird. And guess what? I ended up being obsessed by it and reading it every second I could. Thank you, bloggers. Oh, and thank you, sister, obviously, for making me take the leap.

Review coming next week!

When I first heard of The Lunar Chronicles, I thought…cyborgs ? Yeah, that’s weird.  I wasn’t too sure of myself about this, but when the incredibly sweet Joan praised this so much and then offered to lend it to me, I couldn’t refuse. And I just fell in love with it. It was SO weird, and SO unusual for me to read a book like this, at first, and then I realized just how massively awesome it was. I think my love for it definitely shows.

Check out my reviews for the books

   

This is another book where I’ll say, I can’t believe how much I loved this. You must get bored of this by now, but I certainly hope you won’t get bored with this book. An incredible retelling, characters I LOVED, ALL THE FOOD making you hungry, a side of craziness and you have me sold. I still need to read the sequel so I should probably shut up until I do, but….no. I think once in a while we all deserve to shout about the books we love. Strike that. All the time.

Check out my review for the first book

This list could go on for DAYS, and I realize that I mostly talked about VERY hyped books. Does that mean I’m easy to convince, or that my tastes are just like everyone else’s ? Well… I guess that’s another question. But I guess no one’s questionning what I love, or I hope so, at least.

THANK YOU, book bloggers, for making me scream about NEW BOOKS I wouldn’t know about if it weren’t because of you. THANK YOU for helping me find out new genres, keep exploring, keep being aware about everything happening.  For bringing some #DiverseBooks on my radar. For sharing the bookish love, unconditionally, and for being so passionate about these kind of books that so many bash on just because it’s “young adult”. Overall, THANK YOU for the amazing books. My words are nothing compared to what these books and the community brought me, but more on that later, so, for this Thanksgiving week, just, THANK YOU.

Now it’s time for YOUR AMAZING BOOKS! Always looking for great recommendations, and always looking for books that you loved, so…

What books did you discover thanks to the blogging community that you LOVED ? Is there ONE particular book that changed you ? Tell me all about it in comments 💬