Top 5 Wednesday: Books You'd Want To See As TV Shows

I am finally back with a Top 5 Wednesday -- a weekly meme that I have (unfortunately) failed to keep up on. It actually didn't take me very long to pick five books that I would love to see turned into television shows, so here they are:

1. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas: I am currently reading Throne of Glass and I would absolutely love to see this turned into a television series. I know that a lot of readers would love to see this turned into a movie, but I would much prefer it to be turned into a television series so that Celaena had a longer period to develop. She is such a complex character and I would love to watch her on the screen for years!

2. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare: Now, I already know that The Mortal Instruments is being turned into a television series (if you didn't know this it is going to be called Shadowhunters and they are currently casting characters!) but I just cannot suppress my excitement! This book will forever hold a special place in my heart, so I cannot wait to see it be reincarnated for a television series. 

3. The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare: If The Mortal Instruments can be adapted for television, than why can't The Infernal Devices? I can imagine that it would make a wonderful spin-off series, and I would just love to see who they would cast as Jem!

4. The Pact by Jodi Picoult: I can imagine Jodi Picoult's The Pact would make a wonderful television miniseries. The novel is heartbreaking, realistic and emotive, and also expresses a powerful message that I think would impact a lot of people's lives. 

5. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead: Now, I'm a sucker for vampire television shows (I've watched The Vampire Diaries and True Blood countless of times!), and whilst Vampire Academy has already received a movie, I can imagine a television series capturing a much darker vibe. 

What novels would you love to be seen turned into television shows?

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Top Five Wednesday: Most Frustrating Characters

I am very excited to share with you another Top 5 Wednesday, this time dedicated to my top five most frustrating characters. Strangely, I found this to be an extremely tough topic, but I managed to find five (or so) characters that just get on my nerves.

1. Catelyn Stark from Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin: I feel a little bad publicly announcing my frustration with Catelyn Stark (especially since, at certain times, I am capable of understanding the motivations behind her actions). But there are numerous events throughout the entire Game of Thrones series that left me with a growing distrust and frustration, i.e. her hatred for Jon Snow, leaving her younger children (one that is horribly injured, by the way) to help fight her eldest son's war and kidnapping Tyrion -- just to name a few examples. Does any other Game of Thrones fan feel this way? Or is it just me?

2. Bella Swan from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: This may become a common answer throughout the top five most frustrating characters, but I could not stop myself from adding Bella Swan to my list. Bella was incredibly needy, insufferable and possessed cliched teenage protagonist characteristics, such as insecure and clumsy. Her feelings towards Edward Cullen grew tiresome and annoying. This was especially true during New Moon (I still feel sorry for Jacob, to be honest), but my frustration for Bella began to develop during the first Twilight book.

3. Tessa Gray from Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare: In the beginning of Cassandra Clare's new Shadowhunter series, Tessa Gray did not annoy me. I actually really enjoyed her character, especially since we shared the same love for books. But as the love triangle between the three main characters developed, Tessa's indecisiveness really began to get on my nerves -- probably because that quality in someone annoys me greatly. 

4. The Dursleys from Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling: Isn't this one pretty self-explanatory? All Harry Potter fans will understand where I am coming from here.

5. Daisy from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Throughout The Great Gatsby, Daisy was an incredibly annoying character. I found it hard to believe that she was truly in love with Gatsby during their affair, and instead I believe that she was simply bored of her marriage. There was no way to sympathise with her either, even when her husband was cheating on her -- she only continued to make me annoyed and I did not enjoy the scenes she was in. 

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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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