YA Superlative Blogfest 2013 - Day Four - Best In Show

For more information or to join in, please visit the brilliant hosts of the YA Superlative Blogfest: Katy Upperman, Tracey Neithercott, Alison Miller, and Jessica Love

Favourite Cover How To Love by Katie Cotugno 

My favourite colours and I love the font. Simple but effective. 

Cutest Couple Alex & Callie or Sawyer & Reena or Cath & Levi

I loved how mature Alex and Callie were about their relationship and if/how they should proceed in the future. Cath and Levi need no explanation - if there's one thing I've learnt over the past few days, it's that we're all Fangirl fangirls. 

Most Likely To Succeed Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell and Where The Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller

I'm sure Eleanor & Park will win lots of awards next year. I hope Where the Stars Still Shine gets some love too because there's so much packed into this little book. 

  

Most Likely To Make You Miss Your Bedtime  Fangirl

Obviously. 

  

Favourite Finale or End of Series Novel Gallagher Girls - United We Spy by Ally Carter

I'm cheating here - I haven't actually read this yet but I'm sure it's a great end to a brilliant series. I haven't heard anything to suggest otherwise anyway.

  

Romance Most Worthy of an Ice Bath Maise & Evan - Unteachable by Leah Raeder

Flaming nora, I was not prepared for this. Thank goodness it wasn't my train read! 

  

Breakout Novel The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider 

Loved this book and it was nice to read a YA book with a male POV. 

Best Old-Timer The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay, Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar, Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

I didn't realise The Sea of Tranquility was eligible for it or else it would've rivalled Fangirl won EVERYTHING. Anyone who knows me and my reading habits will know I love a good Aussie YA drama and both Raw Blue and Saving Francesca stepped up to the plate.

Book Most Likely to Make a Grown Man Cry Eleanor & Park or The Sea of Tranquility

Most people seem to have shed a few tears for Eleanor & Park, so of course it has to make the list. I don't cry whilst reading very often but The Sea of Tranquility completely tore me apart and I couldn't get it out of my head. Now and then, a book or a film or a song will come along and coincide with everything else going on in your life and completely gut you. 

Most Creative Use of a Love Triangle Fangirl or Flat-Out Matt

Cath-Levi-Reagan-friends-with/out-benefits-reminds-me-of-the-spelling-bit-in-Hot-Chip's-Over and Over. Ok, I'll stop that now. Also, Matt and Julie and Finn in Flat-Out Love and Flat-Out Matt because when you discover what you're meant to discover, even though you probably kind of guessed it in the beginning...wow. Shocker.

Favourite Outlier Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Dazzling, sparkling, heartbreaking, hilarious...read more about my thoughts on them here, here, and here.

Most Likely To Make it in Hollywood (or at least the CW) Burn for Burn Trilogy by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian
Dawson's Creek meets Vampire Diaries meets Pretty Little Liars. If that's not a recipe for teen television heaven then I don't know what is. Get on it TV execs!