RTW: Best Book For August

Road Trip Wednesday is a "Blog Carnival," where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

This Week's Topic:

What's the best book you read this month?

I expect to see a lot of this one in the Road Trip Wednesday posts (and a lot of THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE, which I've yet to read but really want to). My favorite book for August? MOCKINGJAY.

MOCKINGJAY'S release day sort of crept up on me. I hadn't forgotten about it, but I've been so busy this summer that I hadn't thought about it much. But once the book showed up in my mailbox, I closed the bedroom door and isolated myself for a few hours while I eagerly tore through the story. I don't want to give any spoilers away, but I can say that I was surprised by the direction Collins took at first - the tension, the themes were quite different from previous books. I ended up loving this new, psychological aspect of the story. The characters in this book were as vivid as in others, maybe even more so. Triumphs and losses hit hard, creating an emotional roller-coaster for the reader. The book wasn't perfect (Katniss spent a bit too much time knocked out or asleep, methinks) but I still couldn't make myself put it down. By the time I'd turned the last page, my chest ached. An impressive story.

What was your favorite read of August? Visit YA Highway to join in on the RTW fun.