30 day book challenge - Day 16

16. What is the best book you've read in the past year? 

I haven't read all that many books in the last year.  Besides Stephen King's Dark Tower series I read at the beginning of last year (around this time) the best book i've read this year is Karen Marie Moning's Fever series. They're a great bunch of paranormal/urban fantasy romance books (i've never read any romance books before this, and because it was mixed with urban fantasy i didn't actually mind it!). I loved how the series took place in Dublin, Ireland. I've been to Dublin just once, and only for the day but it was a lovely city. The main character, a young 22 year old girl called MacKayla Lane is a pretty, and vain young girl from the South in the States. Her life is just pools, and parties with friends until her older sister is murdered while living and going to school in Dublin. MacKayla, who goes by 'Mac' then goes on a mission to find out what happened, and who killed her sister by going to Dublin (against her parents wishes), and there she stumbles into a dark and sinister world of demons, monsters and angels, and gets caught in the middle of a hunt for an ancient grimoire, a powerfully magic book that is wanted by all factions (demons and angels alike). Mac is taken under the wing of Jericho Barrons, a mysterious an intimidating man, and owner of Barrons' Books and Baubles, a lovely big old bookstore that MacKayla stumbles into as a safe haven from the scary things in the shadows of un-used areas of the city.

It's a great series - 5 books in all, I read them all in a matter of days - about 2 weeks in total, I think - which gives you an idea of how much I enjoyed them. I highly recommend them!

What's your favourite book of the last year? reply in the comments!