CHRISTMAS BOOKTUBEATHON!

During the summer there was a reading event called Booktubeathon, created by Ariel Bissett on her youtube channel, there were many challenges that were made to encourage people to read as much as they could in the space of a week! This time round there aren't any challenges other than to read as much as you possibly can in three days. Christmas Booktubeathon takes place between the Friday 20th December - Sunday 22nd December to finish all those books that have been put aside for other books you're more excited for before we get loads of new books at Christmas!

If you want to get all the details watch Ariel's video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXfCFN6qss

My BookTubeAThon reads are:

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

I read this at about the same time last year and completely loved it. Just like the Hunger Games not only was it entertaining but it had some very key messages about society's view on the way we look.  

Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? 
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license - for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. 

The choice Tally makes changes her world forever...

-GOODREADS

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

I absolutely adored this book when I first read it at age 11. The world is so well created, every character feels real even if they're only in a chapter. Derek Landy is the king of foreshadowing, he foreshadowed eIGHT FREAKING BOOKS AHEAD AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN REALISE 'TIL BAM! IT HITS YOU IN THE FACE AT A MILLION MILES PER HOUR.  (Please excuse the caps, there are many feelings attatched to this series). I am very much looking forward to reading this again because in the same way people actually grew up with Harry Potter like actually being the same age as Harry as the books were released, I grew with Valkyrie Cain. Of course Harry Potter was a large part of my childhood even though I wasn't even born when the first book was released!

Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally ("if" he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a "very" unlikable monster of legend.

Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.

But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home?

Look for Scepter of the Ancients

-GOODREADS

And finally,

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

Now this is one I have not yet read. This is the last book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy.The Ask and the Answer is my favourite one so far which made me hesitant to read this one. I read about 30 pages into it then read something else because the violence at the beginning didn't hook me then I think the last book in the Gallagher Girls series came out and i just HAD to read that one and it's been sat on my shelf ever since. 

That is all I have to talk about today so goodnight and merry Christmas c:

-E x

PS I'm reading the Book Thief after being heistant for a few years but I'm actually really liking it, expect a full length review soon. Probably will do a review for 'Monsters of Men' but not the other two. c: