Top Five Wednesday: Books You Wanted To Start Yesterday

This is my first time participating in Top 5 Wednesday, which is for booktubers (primarily) and book bloggers to join each week to discuss their five favourite things under a designated topic. This week focused on the top five books that you wanted to start yesterday. I have yet to read these five books, but I am very excited to start them some time this year.

1. Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1) by Beth Revis: I discovered Across the Universe accidentally. I was looking for a birthday present for my father, and found him an adult science fiction novel based aboard a spaceship. I then thought to myself, 'I wonder if there are any young adult novels set aboard a spaceship?', and discovered this little beauty.

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. 

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. 

Amy quickly realises that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone -- one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship -- tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. 

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

2. Mila 2.0 (Mila 2.0, #1) by Debra Driza: I have been waiting to read a great science fiction series for a long time, and I recently discovered Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza when I was looking at the YA Highway blog. I have yet to read it, but it sounds absolutely amazing!

Mila was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was a girl living with her mother in a small Minnesota town. She was supposed to forget her past -- that she was built in a secret computer science lab and programmed to do things people would never do. 

Now she has no choice but to run -- from the dangerous operatives who want her terminated because she knows too much and from a mysterious group that wants to capture her alive and unlock her advanced technology. However, what Mila's becoming is beyond anyone's imagination, including her own, and it just might save her life.

3. The Wicked We Have Done (Chaos Theory, #1) by Sarah Harian: I remember when Sarah Harian announced the release for The Wicked We Have Done and I was extremely excited. But I stopped reading a lot around the time of the release and never bought the book. But I came across it again recently and am eagerly waiting to begin reading it.

Evalyn Ibarra never expected to be an accused killer and experimental prison test subject. A year ago, she was a normal college student. Now she's been sentenced to a month in the compass room -- an advanced prison obstacle course designed by the government to execute justice. 

If she survives, the world will know she's innocent.  

Locked up with nine notorious and potentially psychotic criminals, Evalyn must fight the prison and dismantle her past to stay alive. But the system prized for accuracy appears to be killing at random. 

She doesn't plan on making friends. 

She doesn't plan on falling in love, either.

4. Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth: I know,  I know. What rock have I been living under? I have watched the movie, and cannot wait until the second is released on DVD -- but I have not read the books. I am determined to read this one some time during the year.

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is -- she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. 

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are -- and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help save the ones she loves... or it might destroy her.

5. Justice Calling (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress, #1) by Annie Bellet: Justice Calling is a self-published novel by Annie Bellet. I have heard that it should be considered more of a novella rather than a novel, but all the reviews have stated that The Twenty-Sided Sorceress is the perfect series for geek-tastic individuals who enjoy novels with a lot of geeky references.

Gamer. Nerd. Sorceress. 

Jade Crow lives a quiet life running her comic book and game store in Wylde, Idaho. After twenty-five years fleeing from a powerful sorcerer who wants to eat her heart and take her powers, quiet suits her just fine. Surrounded by friends who are even less human that she is, Jade figures she's finally safe. 

As long as she doesn't use her magic. 

When dark powers threaten her friends' lives, a sexy shape-shifter enforcer shows up. He's the shifter world's judge, jury, and executioner rolled into one, and he thinks Jade is to blame. To clear her name, save her friends, and stop the villain, she'll have to use her wits... and her sorceress powers. 

Expect Jade knows that as soon as she does, a far deadlier nemesis awaits. 

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