Met My Goal 2013!!!

My goal this year was to read 65 books.  I met my goal a couple of weeks ago.  I'm thinking now, that I should have made it 75 books for this year, but at the same time, I don't want to make reading feel like a chore that I have to do. 

Give me some feedback.  What should my 2014 challenge be? 

Hallowed Ones & The Outside

I loved this series, simply because it was such a unique take on the vampire story.  Our heroine Katie is a girl living in the Amish community.  All she can think about is the fact that she will be going on Rumspringa soon.  She is ready to experience the outside world for the first time.  However, all that changes when a contagion spreads through the country leaving people changed into something dark and evil.  These are not nice vampires; they are deadly and terrifying.  Strangely, Katie's community seems to be untouched, and they close the gates and forbid any contact with the outside world.  Katie goes against her community when she finds an injured man on the edge of their property.  She knows she can't leave him to die, so she hides him and nurses him back to health. 

ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Benny Imura Series by Jonathan Maberry

I read the books in this series back to back.  I have to admit that I could barely put down the first two books in the series, Rot & Ruin and Dust & Decay.  However, the third book, Flesh & Bone, shifted a little.  I'm not saying it wasn't good, it just wasn't as good as the first two books for me.  The villains changed and we had to learn a whole new set of motives behind the new bad guys' actions.  You might think that since this is a zombie series, that they are the bad guys, but they're not.  Not really anyway.  Sure the zombies are dangerous and they kill, eat, and infect a lot of people in the book.  The difference is that they are not evil.  They are mindless and are just doing their thing.  They aren't malevolent and malicious.  For that, you have to look to the living humans.   The final book, Fire & Ash, was the book that took me the longest to finish.  I enjoyed it, but some of the plot seemed to be wrapped up a little too quickly for me.  Overall, I recommend this series.  It is fast paced and action packed.