Readorama Readathon Wrap Up

This readathon started out on quite a roll! I was flying through the first few books, but sadly I didn't read as much as I wanted to. On the third and fourth day I didn't feel like reading because I had headaches which only sleep seemed to be helping. Then after that I tried to get back into the swing of it and catch up on the time I had lost, but when I did, I just didn't feel in the mood for the books I'd chosen. Great time for a slump :/

Anyway, here's the books I did manage to read.

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - I loved this book! The good and the bad. There were funny moments, and there were sad moments, but for all the talk that I'd heard saying that this book will make people cry, it just didn't. That was my only let down really, so I still gave it a 4/5 star rating.

Challenge: A book adapted to film.

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton - This was such a quick and easy read and I flew through it in no time! I loved all of the characters, especially Jin (swoon!) and Amani. I love that the story takes place in a pseudo setting, meaning a fantasy location influenced by real locations, eg, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The names sound real, but don't exist outside of this book. It offers a wide racial diversity, which more books these days need.

This book was action packed and had plenty of twists. I love that so far in the series, there's no love triangle, but then again, it is only the first book. Fingers crossed that it doesn't happen! I rated this book 5/5 stars.

Challenge: A book with a protagonist of colour.

So after these two, I attempted to read Ruined by Amy Tintera, but it just wasn't grabbing me. I didn't feel in the mood for any of the other books I'd chosen, so to prevent my slump from getting to me too much, I just hung the challenge and read what I was in the mood for (I've been into The Lord of the Rings lately, since I've been replaying the Lego game on PS3), so I continued reading The Ring Goes South, book 2 of The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. This has prevented my slump from worsening, but unfortunately, this means that I didn't complete the readathon.

However, I am looking forward to participating again next time it comes around! I probably woudn't have read Rebel of the Sands by now if I hadn't participated, so there's some good come of it at least!

I hope to participate in more readathons this year, but after Jen and my buddy read, I think I'll put them off until after September. I have a lot of books to read before then and I know I'm going to want to dive right into Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas when it's released in September!