Favorite Character Relationships | TTT | 9/12/23

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Favorite Character Relationships

I love Rosalind and Oliver in the Foul Heart Huntsman – they go through some tough times in the series but they are too funny and cute together.

Vanja and Emeric from Painted Devils are my favorite partners in crime against the supernatural! She’s snarky and he’s uptight and together they are perfect for one another.

Fizzy and Connor in The True Love Experiment make an amazing couple, but Fizzy and her best friend Jess? True Love indeed.

Tilly and Oliver in Tilly in Technicolor are the cutest couple.

Violet and Zaden from Fourth Wing are electric!

Patroclus and Achilles – every time I see Song of Achilles, my heart hurts for these two young men.

Marcus and Teriana from Gilded Serpent are so amazing and I’ve been waiting forever it feels to see what happens next in this series. 😭 I just want them to be alive and in love.

Iris and Roman in Divine Rivals are one of my new favorites.

Zahru and Kasta from The Sweetest Betrayal but also Zahru and her friends/found family.

Tara and Trevor from Exes & O’s are such a fun couple and one of my favorites this year!

Have you read any of these books? Are any of these on your TBR? What’s on your TTT?

Books That Defied My Expectations | TTT | 9/5/23

This week’s topic is:

Books That Defied My Expectations

(books you thought you would didn’t like that you loved, books you thought you’d love but didn’t, books that were not the genres they seemed to be, or in any other way subverted your expectations!)

I loved Unholy Terrors but I was worried I wouldn’t because for one, I didn’t particularly love the cover, but I did like the synopsis so I requested it hoping it would be a dark read and wasn’t disappointed. But my worry for disappointment was because I had just finished this authors last book, Forestfall, and didn’t love it. I was hoping to love Forestfall since I loved the first book, but it fell flat for me.

I heard so many good things about Seven Percent of Ro Devereux and I went in not knowing to expect and absolutely loved it, so I’m happy about that!

I got Stealing Infinity on Kindle Unlimited. I love the cover but wasn’t sure about the time-jumping aspect of the story but one day I decided to try it, despite it having some bad reviews but you know what? It wasn’t that bad!

I got Fourth Wing I think just as the hype was building and I’m glad I’m jumped on it because it’s one of my most favorite book of 2023. Usually I avoid the hype for a good few months but there was something about this one that sounded good and it lived up to expectations.

Immortal Longings made me go through some things. I was expecting a lot because it’s Chloe Gong and I was not feeling it at all. I almost DNF’ed the book! But something told me to just push through and the second half made it up for me. So it was definitely not what I expected.

The twin trope is not my favorite so I was hesitant to read Twin Crowns but I actually enjoyed the story a lot!

I’ve read the first series by Amelie Wen Zhao and went into Song of Silver, Flame Like Night with no expectations, except I did love the cover. And I loved this story more than expected! Looking forward to book two.

The Poppy War was all over book blogs and I didn’t know what to expect when I decided to finally read it but wow, what a book! It exceeded any expectation I had!

It’s a gorgeous cover and I love her other work, but The Last Tale of the Flower Bride was sadly, a DNF for me.

Have you read any of these books? Are any of these on your TBR? What’s on your TTT?

Water | TTT | 8/29/23

This week’s topic is:

Water

I know I did one about Ocean colors but here are bodies of water on book covers!

What’s on your TTT?

Books with a Love Triangle | TTT | 8/22/23

This week’s topic is: ~~freebie~~

Books with a Love Triangle

I”m doing this post while watching That Summer I Turn Pretty, Season 2 on Prime Video. Oh the dreaded LOVE TRIANGLE. I actually 90% love a good love triangle because of the angst and push and pull but sometimes I really hate it. Like in this show lol…because it’s between 2 brothers, which I hate :(…but I’m gonna watch it anyway because I loved the first season. So here are some books with a love triangle:

Do you like or loathe love triangles?? Let me know in the comments!

What’s on your TTT?

Book Cover with the Sun | TTT | 8/15/23

This week’s topic is: ~~Characters from Different Books Who Should Team Up (or date, be friends with, etc.)~~

Book Cover with the Sun

I don’t have the mental capacity to do the actual TTT topic this week, so I’m going with something SUPER easy and still summer themed. Here are book covers with the sun in the title or on the cover. Enjoy your summer!

What’s on your TTT?

Books I’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday | TTT | 8/8/23

This week’s topic is:

Books I’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday

I tried Taylor Jenkins Reid books because of people recommending all her books on TTT!

And I finally knocked these titles off my TBR list because I’ve been highly influenced by TTT!

Here are some books I want to read and hope I can eventually get to them this year!

What’s on your TTT?

Forgotten Backlist Titles from Ten Years Ago – 2013 | TTT | 8/1/23

This week’s topic is:

Forgotten Backlist Titles from Ten Years Ago – 2013

Let’s go back a decade ago and see what backlist titles aren’t talked about as much anymore.

Crown of Midnight is the second book in the Throne of Glass series and I actually thought Throne of Glass was just okay. But Crown of Midnight is what made me keep reading the series! I think anything SJM is continued to be talked about since her books are bestsellers.

The Indigo Spell is the third book in the Bloodlines series which I was obsessed with. Richelle Mead really did a great job with The Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series. It had a chokehold on me back in the day!

Unravel Me…I know there are a lot of people who did not like the first book Shatter Me but I liked how different it was so I kept reading the series. Unravel Me is book two and started my obsession with Warner. Also it has Kenji and Kenji made everything better!

I actually don’t know if there was a lot of hype around The Coldest Girl in Coldtown but I’m such a Holly Black fan that I was hyped for it back then and enjoyed the story a lot!

The Dream Thieves is the second book in The Raven Cycle series and I loved this series.

Allegiant. Do you remember when Allegiant came out? Because I do and I was obsessed with Divergent and so into dystopian YA novels because alongside vampires, it was the biggest genres out there. But when Allegiant came out and people were so upset with the ending I chose to not read this book. It’s the third book in the Divergent series…you think maybe I can read it without getting upset now? lol…it’s been 10 years! I really should read it just to complete the series.

Like I said, dystopia or vampires! The Eternity Cure is the second book in the Blood of Eden series and I loved this series. And honestly I don’t think it got enough hype back in the day because the market was so flooded with vampire stories but this series is so good.

The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen was a comfort read for me and she was a must-read author for me at the time. I officially grew out of my Sarah Dessen phase but when I want to reminisce on simpler times, even simpler reading times I think about her books.

Fangirl was one of those hyped books and Rainbow Rowell books were everywhere. This might have been the last book I read from this author but I do remember enjoying it.

I was still reading historically romances a decade ago but now Sarah MacLean is the only historical romance author I’ve been reading. No Good Duke Goes Unpunished didn’t quite have hype or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention to historical romances back then but I remember loving this series!

Wow, that was a blast from the past! It was kinda fun to look back 10 years and see what I enjoyed.

What’s on your TTT?

Six Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish | TTT | 7/25/23

This week’s topic is: Freebie

Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish

I just borrowed The Demon Tide but it’s a huge book! It’s 672 pages and I read two chapters and I feel lost because the last book in the series I read back in 2020 – it’s been 3 years and I don’t feel like rereading that book to get caught up to read this one. So…I may have to return it without finishing it until I get in the mood to read it.

A Ship of Bones and Teeth is a dark fantasy romance, a retelling of The Little Mermaid. And I thought it would be fun to read a smutty Little Mermaid version but I thought twice and said nah…I kind of didn’t want to ruin the story in my mind with lots of spicy sex lol. So I’m not going to read it.

Pestilence is a book I’ve seen on KU for forever and then for some reason it’s on Netgalley and I decided to give it a try. The first two chapters made me realize fast that it’s not for me. I just wasn’t jelling with how the story was being told, I guess. Anyway, I DNF’ed.

I try to borrow a bunch on KU because I have to get my money’s worth right? So I got The Crown of Oaths and Curses and Fae Heir because I love Fae romances but these just didn’t hold my interest at all. I think I just wasn’t into how it was written.

Gilded is a book I’ve borrowed twice now and I still haven’t finished it and I think I should just give up and not even try.

What’s on your TTT?