Top 5 Wednesday - Favorite Character Names

This is one week late because I've been busy but I still thought it was an interesting topic to write about. Characters names certainly play a role in the books as they often represent a little bit of the personality of the character. Other than that, if the name is catchy it will  be easy to remember them and it will definitely trigger hopefully your feelings or memories when reading that book. So here are 5 names that appealed to me because they were great characters and unique names,

Cinder from Cinder

Although it's short from Cinderella but making her an asian character certainly makes her super unique plus the fact that she is a cyborg makes it even cooler.

Marguerite from A Thousand Pieces of You

This name is my first time reading it so it's quite unique to me besides that she is quite a strong character as well. I certainly love her very much in her story.

Celaena from Throne of Glass

A strong character with a strong name. I think it's a strong name because it's one name that people can remember well and also give the other title that she earned, she's not one to mess around with.

Feyre from A Court of Thorns and Roses

I have to say that the author is so creative coming up with wonderful names that is unique and memorable. Besides that, the character that bears that name is an amazing character at the same time.

Rhysand from A Court of Mist and Fury

I love love love this character so much. He is one character that has so much depth and yet there's still some mystery to him. His name certainly suites him and he is one male that I will remember always.

As you can see, there is a strong female presence in the list and only one name made the cut. Honestly I do have some names to mention for male character such as The Darkling, Liam, Kaz Brekker, and Kell. These are also names that I quite love. So what character names is your favourite?

Favourite books of 2015

I have had a great year with books and thus it was hard to choose my favourite.This is because quite many of the books become my favourite this year. Before I present to you my list, I would like to say that these books are not necessarily published in 2015, they are just books that I've read in 2015 although a few was published in 2015. I've decided to choose a top 10 to share with you guys. These books have such great stories to tell and some have pulled at my heartstrings. I highly recommend these books and I'll insert links to my reviews of those books too. The list below are not in any particular order but I have to mention that my most favourite book of the year would be Six of Crows.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - The story is set in the Grisha world but these characters are not related to the Grisha trilogy. They are a band of bad people who are trying to work together to prison break an important person. How will they pull off this task when that prison is the hardest place to break out of? They also have many conflicts with each other, can they actually work together without killing each other first? What I love about the book is it's action packed, the characters have very interesting past, and as you read along the story you will find out how they pull off their heist. My full review: click here

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray - A girl chases a boy across multiple dimensions because he killed her father. I love the world that is built in the story, all those parallel dimensions are so unique and special. The characters were also people with personalities that grabs your attention. It was a fantastic page turner as you want to follow the heroine on her quest for justice. This is the first book in the firebird trilogy. My full review: click here

Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray - The second book in the firebird trilogy. The romance in this book was so so good and of course the parallel dimensions that are new in this book was really well built too. This book also talks about morality issues. A new danger and a new adventure in the second book that totally grasped my attention. My full review: click here

Top 5 - Favorite Self-Published Books

I've  missed out on last week's Top 5 but it's okay I thought I would join this week. I was suppose to participate actively last year but life got in the way (excuses?!?), seriously it did. Read my review on 2015 to find out. This was quite a hard one to do as I'm not sure what book that I've read are in self-published by the author. I only realized there was one author that I read and it was Amanda Hocking. The series that she debut with was self-published and I did read all the Trylle series. So I did my research and there was a whole list on Goodreads. I was surprised that there was quite a number of it. Sadly, there wasn't much I could pick from either, so the following list which is only 4 books that I've read qualifies.

1. Switched by Amanda Hocking
2. Torn by Amanda Hocking
3. Ascend by Amanda Hocking
4. Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

These books are all in the young adult fantasy category. What I love about the Trylle series is that the idea is fresh, the characters are interesting and the back story is quite good. As for Inheritance, it was a book with a good world built by the author, the history/past of characters are so good, the plot fantastic and I feel that the movie did no justice to the book. The book was very good and detail. The author actually wrote the series at his teens and I'm super impressed by it. I have the rest of the series sitting on my shelf that I've yet to pick up, not because of my lack of interest but because the books are thick and I would need to talk some time to read and appreciate it properly. Lately, I've been into fast paced and short books. But nonetheless, I hope to complete it this year if I can.