Ami's Hoard

If the year 2013 would always remembered by moi as the year of "discovering the joy of Merlin/Arthur fan-fiction", then the year 2014 was the year in which I discovered three things (in regards to Non-MM Genre)

1) Rick Riordan and his Percy Jackson series was actually AWESOME
-- I gobbled up 9 books starting from The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) until the last one The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5). And they were pretty 'lengthy' book too. It shows that if the books and the writing are great, then the pages don't matter.

2) Bec McMaster and her London Steampunk series was also incredibly awesome!
I did a steampunk challenge in April when I discovered this series. The challenge itself wasn't a success because I couldn't go through any other steampunk books. But hers? WOWZA!! How great the series is for me? Well, I only rated eight (8) books with my 5-stars rating this year, and TWO of them were her books

3) I discovered my way back to contemporary MF romance (Le Gasp!)
Yes people ... back in 2008, I practically switched track to MM romance. But this year, I discovered that contemporary MF romance could actually give me some satisfaction too. The kind of satisfaction that I couldn't get in MM ... satisfaction in actually reading ROMANCE. You know, the wooing, the slow-built relationship. Nothing smutty. Nothing erotic. Nothing "wham-bam-thank-you-man". Nothing insta-lust/insta-attraction. Nothing related to jacking off, solo shower, and mechanical sex scenes (you know, one finger, two fingers, three fingers, slot tab A to tab B). I guess diversity works :)

So I can say that the Non-MM genre this year is definitely more memorable to me in overall. I find quite a number of MF genre authors too along with few Urban Fantasy series that I'd like to follow in 2015.

Favorite Non MM Book 2014
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

Favorite New-to-Me Non MM Author 2014
Bec McMaster

Favorite Book by New-to-Me Non MM Author 2014
My Lady Quicksilver by Bec McMaster

Favorite Potential New Non MM Series to Follow
Burn for Me (Ilona Andrews)
House Immortal (Devon Monk)

Favorite Non MM Novella/Short Story 2014
The Queen's Army (The Lunar Chronicles, #1.5) by Marissa Meyer


Next chapter will be about my 2015 Reading Challenge

Cheers

AMI