My favourite summer reads

Summer is here and with it comes optimism, energy and a long reading list. I want to share some of my favourite summer reads and hope you will give me some of yours. What I like to read during the summer are books that are either, fun, thrilling or romantic, or at best all of those things. The summer could be the time you read the heavier stuff but for me and a lot of others I think it`s also then you really have time for page-turners, and to just dive into a book and not come back up again until you finish.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: this fast-paced sci-fi/dystopia is fun, thrilling, but not as dark as a lot of the books in this genre can be. It`s mostly a tribute to geekyness and pop culture and one of the most entertaining books I`ve ever read.

The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse): I just started the last book and already I dread the ending of Sookie and her adventures. These books have been my early june-reading for the last few years, and I recommend you to try out the audiobooks. They usually have a mystery that`s solved by the end of each book but there are of course bigger mysteries and storylines through the entire series. It is fun, sexy, exciting and have a lot of love affairs and attractive guys. Eric Northman is probably my biggest literary crush;-) I would not recommend this for the youngest part of the YA-readers as it`s not a YA-book.

Hush hush-series by Becca Fitzpatrick: these are probably my favourite books in my not so favourite-genre Paranormal Romance if that tells you anything:-). These books are dark in a light way and I like that they finish a subplot or mystery in each book because I can`t stand it when these series ends with an cliffhanger that might as well be the end of a chapter.

Perfect Chemistry/Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles: I liked the second book Rules of Attraction even better than the first one in The Perfect Chemistry-series about the Fuentes-brothers. I would recommend them both though. They`re romantic, sexy and intense but maybe not the most unpredictable books in the world. The third and last book might be my summer read this year.

Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally: a really cute story about a girl, Jordan, who loves to play football with the guys, and she`s really good at it too. When the new player on the team catches her attention having her wishing he was more than her teammate, things starts to get complicated.

What`s your favourite summer reads?

What are you reading this summer?

The summer is already a month old but as I'm in my first week of vacation I'm curious of what you're reading this summer and what you associate with summer reading. Often people seem to read more light books with less serious content in the summertime than during the winter. I thought about this and found it a bit strange because summer usually means vacation and vacation means more time to read, so why not read the books you feel you don't have time to read the rest of the year? On the other hand it's time to relax and enjoy life so why not just relax you're mind with an easy read? Here's some of the books I want to read this summer:

Rules of attraction by Simone Elkeles:When Carlos Fuentes returns to America after living in Mexico for a year, he doesn’t want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him at a high school in Colorado . Carlos likes living his life on the edge and wants to carve his own path—just like Alex did. Then he meets Kiara Westford. She doesn’t talk much and is completely intimidated by Carlos’ wild ways. As they get to know one another, Carlos assumes Kiara thinks she’s too good for him, and refuses to admit that she might be getting to him. But he soon realizes that being himself is exactly what Kiara needs right now. (From Goodreads)

  In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation. (From Goodreads)

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.(From Goodreads)

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. (From Goodreads).

What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last. (From Goodreads)

Have you read any of these and what do you plan to read this summer?

Silje*