Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten authors I’ve read the most books by. I feel like it hasn’t changed much since the last time I did this subject.

10. Brigid Kemmerer – 11. 1 TBR

9. Jennifer L Armentrout. 19. 5 TBR

8. Kasie West – 12. 1 TBR

7. Abbi Glines. 16. 1 TBR

6. Katie McGarry. 10. 2 TBR

5. Marissa Meyer – 10. 1 TBR

4. Maggie Stiefvater – 10. 1 TBR

3. Richelle Mead – 14. 2 TBR

2. Cassandra Clare – 14. 7 TBR

1. Rachel Caine – 16. 1 TBR

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten 2020 releases I’m looking forward to in the second half of the year.

10. Unravel the Dusk – Elizabeth Lim

9. Set Fire to the Gods – Sara Raasch/Kristen Simmons

8. All These Monsters – Amy Tintera

7. Bookish and the Beast – Ashley Poston

6. Blood & Honey – Shelby Mahurin

5. The Lost Book of the White – Cassandra Clare

4. Among the Beasts & Briars – Ashley Poston

3. Instant Karma – Marissa Meyer

2. Stormbreak – Natalie C Parker

1. A Sky Beyond the Storm – Sabaa Tahir

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is basically a frebie so Top Ten non-YA books I want to read soon.

10. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid

9. In Five Years – Rebecca Serle

8. Daisy Jones & the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

7. Chosen Ones – Veronica Roth

6. Nevernight – Jay Kristoff

5.  House of Earth and Blood – Sarah J Maas

4. The Boy Who Followed his Father into Auschwitz – Jeremy Dronfield

3. Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris

2. The Giver of Stars – Jojo Moyes

1. Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten books on my Summer TBR.

10. Sisters of Sword and Song – Rebecca Ross

9. Love, Creekwood – Becky Albertalli

8. Aurora Burning – Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

7. Unravel the Dusk – Elizabeth Lim

6. The Princess Will Save You – Sarah Henning

5. All These Monsters – Amy Tintera

4. A Song Below Water – Bethany C Morrow

3. Set Fire to the Gods – Sara Raasch, Kristen Simmons

2. The Notorious Virtues – Alwyn Hamilton

1. Miss Meteor – Tehlor Kay Mejia, Anna-Marie McLemore

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten books I added to my TBR and forgotten why. I only did the first part of it, so Top Ten book I last added to my TBR.

10. The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks – Mackenzi Lee

9. Unravel the Dusk – Elizabeth Lim

8. Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas

7. The Princess Will Save You – Sarah Henning

6. Cinderella Is Dead – Kalynn Bayron

5. Miss Meteor – Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anne-Marie McLemore

4. A Song Below Water – Bethany C Morrow

3. The Henna Wars – Adiba Jaigirdar

2. Sisters of Sword and Song – Rebecca Ross

1. The Boy in the Red Dress – Kristin Lambert

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten books that give off Summer vibes. Bright colours and outdoor scenes on the covers.

10. Maybe This Time – Kasie West

9. Summer of Sloane – Erin L Schneider

8. The Summer of Chasing Mermaids – Sarah Ockler

7. Marilla of Green Gables – Sarah McCoy

6. I’ll Be The One – Lyla Lee

5. Listen to Your Heart – Kasie West

4. Lola and the Boy Next Door – Stephanie Perkins

3. The Map from Here to There – Emery Lord

2. The Gravity of Us – Phil Stamper

1. The Music of What Happens – Bill Konigsberg

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten best opening lines.

10. “Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four Privet Drive…” Harry Potter – JK Rowling

9. “Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.” Bad Romance – Heather Demetrios

8. “First I’d like to state for the record that the whole notion of writing this down was not my idea.” The Last Time We Say Goodbye – Cynthia Hand

7. “I spent the last hour wondering if I would die tonight.” All Your Twisted Secrets – Diana Urban

6. “Music, especially classical music, especially Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor, has kinetic energy.” My Heart and Other Black Holes – Jasmine Warga

5. “Stealing a spaceship shouldn’t be this easy.” Avalon – Mindee Arnett

4. “At home, I’m invisible.” The Gravity of Us – Phil Stamper

3.  “Light glinted off the side of the sword as it arced down in one perfect, sweeping motion.” The Marked Girl – Lindsey Klingele

2. “The world is not tame.” Be Not Far From Me – Mindy McGinnis

1. “Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.” – The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten reasons I love multi-person POV books.

10. It allows the reader to travel to more areas. When the main group breaks into smaller groups, we’re not left in the POV of just one group but can bounce between all of them so we’re not left wondering what happens to everyone else.

9. Different perspectives. I don’t mind being in one person’s POV the whole time but usually I find myself wanting to know what other characters think besides the main character.

8. Different voices. It can be really hard to get into a book if you’re not liking the main character’s voice so with multi-person POV, there’s more chance of liking at least some voices.

7. It makes the story feel less dragged out. Sometimes when there’s not a whole lot to the plot, it can feel like the book is being dragged on, but with multi-POV, I find that splitting up the plot helps.

6. Gives the author/s freedom to play with different timelines and unique storytelling.

5. More chances to fall in love with more characters.

4. You get to be in multiple character’s heads during big moments so things like deaths can have more impact.

3. Mini cliffhangers. When characters aren’t together, one POV ends in a little cliffhanger, I need to keep reading to find out what happens. The next chapter doesn’t immediately continue their story.

2. Kind of the same as different perspectives but I like not being stuck in one character’s POV and the author trying to force me to see things their way, especially when the character seems unreasonable. I want both sides of the story in an argument, I don’t want to hate a character just because the POV hates them.

1. Again, unique storytelling. I love when authors incorporate different styles into the same book. One POV is prose, one in verse, one told through e-mails, etc.

Backlist Highlight:A Dress for the Wicked by Autumn Krause

Another backlist highlight!

A Dress So Wicked – Autumn Krause

Genre: YA Historical Fantasy

Release date: August 6th 2019

My star rating: 3.75

Personal highlights: 1. It has the trope of outsider girl being thrust into a new life and it does it well. What I loved was that she wasn’t moving to the big city for a man or for a chance at love, but for herself and her own dreams.

2. Fashion!

3. The mystery of the saboteur. The author did a great job in making me want to see the main character succeed so I was very invested in her figuring out who was against her.

4. I found it quick and fun to read, almost like a summer-y contemporary that I would read at the beach or by the pool.

 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was started by The Broke and the Bookish, and has now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday there’s a different topic. This week is Top Ten books I abandoned/DNF’d. This is something I don’t do, or that I don’t admit to doing, because even if I put down a book I do plan on going back to it eventually, so I refuse to say I DNF’d it. So I guess this is Top Ten Books I had a hard time getting into the first time. Usually I chalk it up to not being in the mood for that genre, chose a different book, and come back to the original book later.

10. Every Other Weekend – Abigail Johnson

9. Dark Breaks the Dawn – Sara B Larson

8. Second Star – Alyssa B Sheinmel

7. We Used to Be Friends – Amy Spalding

6. Back City – Elizabeth Richards

5. Cursed – Frank Miller

4. American Royals – Katharine McGee

3. Red Rising – Pierce Brown

2. Life L1k3 – Jay Kristoff

1. Zero Repeat Forever – GS Prendergast