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:
Books I Loved that Made Me Want More Books Like Them
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by. Raquel Vasquez Gilliland – I read this is an arc and it won’t be published until 8/10/21 but it’s my favorite book so far of 2021. I fell in love with it and want more books like this.
The Bridge Kingdom and Dark Shores are both by one of my favorite authors ever, Danielle L. Jensen. Whatever she writes, I always want more like it.
The Beautiful Ones by. Silvia Moreno-Garcia – amazing storytelling.
Firekeeper’s Daughter by. Angeline Boulley – a mystery (which I don’t usually read) but immersed in culture. Loved it! I want more diverse books like these.
Savage Lands by. Stacey Marie Brown – I like my urban fantasy stories savage like this one.
The Inheritance Games by. Jennifer Lynn Barnes – I love clues, puzzles, and secrets. This book had it all and it was fun to read.
Slay by. Brittney Morris – this wasn’t my first book about gaming, but this was the one that made me realize, I really do like games about gamers.
I’ll Be the One by. Lyla Lee – fun, fresh, and diverse. Main thing is that it was inspiring and made me feel happy! I still need to find more books like this because I realize a lot of the books I was reading was dark.
When it’s Real by. Erin Watt – I had a phase years ago after reading this where I wanted to read romance novels about rock stars ending up with a normal, non famous girl.
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 a freebie so I’m choosing:
Summer Vacation Book Covers
(basically covers that make me want to go on vacation!)
I’m pretty spoiled – I live in Hawaii. People come here to vacation, but I live here so it doesn’t feel like vacation most days, unless we do a stay-cation at one of the hotels which is rare because it’s pricey so the best I can do is go to the beach. One day I hope to travel again! Where do you like to travel to in the summer?
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:
Book Quotes I Love
“I’ll be with you every step of the way. Just don’t lock me out. You want to walk in silence for a week, I’m fine with that. So long as you talk to me at the end of it.” ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames
“… all isn’t lost. We lose things, but sometimes they come back. Life doesn’t always happen in the order you want.” ― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue
“The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can’t do anything for anyone else if you don’t take care of yourself first.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“To be perfect without suffering means no change. If you know neither hurt nor hardship, then you will not know the strength they can summon within the person. What is life’s meaning if you cannot distinguish between happiness and sorrow?” – Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass
“But to grieve means you have loved. To love opens up the possibility for grief. There cannot be one without the other.” – Rin Chupeco, The Heart Forager
I just started saving quotes from books to add to my book review posts, especially if there are lines that call to me. So these are some of the recent ones I added to some posts and some I didn’t but I love these books.
What did you have for your TTT this week? ~ Yolanda
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:
Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences
What did you have for your TTT this week? ~ Yolanda
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:
Books with Nature on the Cover
I did a smilier topic for my #SixforSunday topic so I’m going to twist this one up and do covers of ARCS I haven’t read but they look enticing to me.
*****
A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.
La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.
This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World–and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey’s best friend, disappeared six months earlier.
Grey can’t believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something–her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.
When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou–a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town’s bloody history–Grey realizes that La Cachette’s past is far more present and dangerous than she’d ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent–and La Cachette’s dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.
Release date: 8/31/21
*****
Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago, the Plumeria. But what once seemed like paradise is starting to feel more like purgatory. It’s been two years since Reyna’s mother passed away, two years since Aiden – her childhood best friend, first kiss, first love, first everything – left the island to pursue his music dreams. Reyna’s friends are all planning their futures and heading abroad. Even Daddy seems to want to move on, leaving her to try to keep the Plumeria running.
And that’s when Aiden comes roaring back into her life – as a VIP guest at the resort.
Aiden is now one-third of DJ Bacchanal – the latest, hottest music group on the scene. While Reyna has stayed exactly where he left her, Aiden has returned to Tobago with his Grammy-nominated band and two gorgeous LA socialites. And he may (or may not be) dating one of them…
Inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances.
Release date: 5/11/21
*****
Natasha’s sister is missing.
Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve known as the Bend, but as the case goes cold, Natasha’s loss turns to burning anger.
She’ll do anything to find answers.
Della’s family has channeled magic from the Bend for generations, providing spells for the desperate. But when Natasha appears on her doorstep, Della knows it will take more than simple potions to help her.
But Della has her own secrets to hide.
Because Della thinks she knows the beast who’s responsible for the disappearance — her own mother, who was turned into a terrible monster by magic gone wrong.
Natasha is angry. Della has little to lose.
They are each other’s only hope.
Release date: 7/20/21
*****
In Cazadora, the follow-up to Lobizona, Romina Garber continues to weave Argentine folklore and real-world issues into a haunting, fantastical, and romantic story that will reunite readers with Manu and her friends as they continue to fight for a better future.
Release date: 8/17/21
*****
TO BE BORN OF THE FOREST IS A GIFT AND A CURSE.
Rora is a shifter, as magical as all those born in the wilderness–and as feared. She uses her abilities to spy for the king, traveling under different guises and listening for signs of trouble.
When a magical illness surfaces across the kingdom, Rora uncovers a devastating truth: Finley, the young prince and her best friend, has caught it, too. His only hope is stardust, the rarest of magical elements, found deep in the wilderness where Rora grew up–and to which she swore never to return.
But for her only friend, Rora will face her past and brave the dark, magical wood, journeying with her brother and the obstinate, older prince who insists on coming. Together, they must survive sentient forests and creatures unknown, battling an ever-changing landscape while escaping human pursuers who want them dead. With illness gripping the kingdom and war on the horizon, Finley’s is not the only life that hangs in the balance.
Release date: 8/31/21
*****
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch whose rare magic is tied to every season.
In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It’s wild and volatile, and the price of her magic―losing the ones she loves―is too high, despite the need to control the increasingly dangerous weather.
In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. Fires burn, storms rage, and Clara accepts that she’s the only one who can make a difference.
In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. As her magic grows, so do her feelings, until she’s terrified Sang will be the next one she loses.
In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she loves… before she loses Sang, her magic, and thrusts the world into chaos.
Release date: 6/1/21
*****
In this much-anticipated series opener, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they strike a dangerous alliance to hunt down the ancient creature menacing their home–and discover much more than they bargained for.
Magic doesn’t exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and magical creatures to pay off her family’s debts and secure their eventual freedom. But the night her loved ones’ own safety is threatened by the Zoo’s cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn’t fully understand–and the consequences are dire.
As the second son of a decorated hero, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six–an elite warrior–and uphold a family legacy. But on the night of his final rite of passage, a fire upends his plans. In its midst, Ekon not only encounters the Shetani–a vicious monster that has plagued the city and his nightmares for nearly a century–but a curious girl who seems to have the power to ward off the beast. Koffi’s power ultimately saves Ekon’s life, but his choice to let her flee dooms his hopes of becoming a warrior.
Desperate to redeem himself, Ekon vows to hunt the Shetani down and end its reign of terror, but he can’t do it alone. Meanwhile, Koffi believes finding the Shetani and selling it for a profit could be the key to solving her own problems. Koffi and Ekon–each keeping their true motives secret from the other–form a tentative alliance and enter into the unknowns of the Greater Jungle, a world steeped in wild magic and untold dangers. The hunt begins. But it quickly becomes unclear whether they are the hunters or the hunted.
Release date: 9/28/21
*****
When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest—and the growing darkness in herself—in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.
Release date: 9/14/21
*****
Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron’s new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.
Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.
When Briseis’s aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined–it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share Bri’s unique family lineage.
When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman who Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. There is more to Bri’s sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it . . . until a nefarious group comes after her in search of a rare and dangerous immortality elixir. Up against a centuries-old curse and the deadliest plant on earth, Bri must harness her gift to protect herself and her family.
From the bestselling author of Cinderella Is Dead comes another inspiring and deeply compelling story about a young woman with the power to conquer the dark forces descending around her.
Release date: 6/29/21
*****
By night, the Ankou is a legendary, permanently young mercenary. By day, a witch’s curse leaves him no more than bones. Caught in an unending cycle of death and resurrection, the Ankou wants only to find the death that has been prophesied for him, especially once he begins to rot while he’s still alive….
After the kingdom of Kaer-Ise is sacked, Flora, loyal handmaiden to the princess, is assaulted and left for dead. As the sole survivor of the massacre, Flora wants desperately to find the princess she served. When the Ankou agrees to help her find the princess, and to train her in exchange for her help in breaking his curse, she accepts. But how can she kill an immortal? Especially one whom she is slowly growing to understand—and maybe even to love?
Together, they will solve mysteries, battle monsters, break curses, and race not only against time, but against fate itself.
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:
My Ten Most Recent Reads
Concrete Rose by. Angie Thomas – amazing read!
Spells Trouble by. P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast – this one was an arc and my first DNF of 2021. It wasn’t for me.
The Cousins by. Karen M. McManus – I enjoyed this one.
4. If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1) by. Julie Murphy – an arc, it was cute!
5. The Woman with the Blue Star by. Pam Jenoff – finished this arc and am on the blog tour. It’s a powerful read.
6. The Princess will Save You by. Sarah Henning – this was okay, I can’t get over how the two characters look like siblings instead of lovers. 🤦🏻♀️
7. A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by. Jennifer L. Armentrout – I finished but it’s not for me so I won’t be continuing the series.
8. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by. Crystal Maldonado – slow start, but emotional ending.
9. Take Me Home Tonight by. Morgan Matson – another arc. Fun, one night in NYC story.
10. Fly with the Arrow by. Sarah Wilson – fun Bluebeard retelling!
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:
Animals from Books (these could be mythical, real, main characters, sidekicks, companions/pets, shifters, etc.) (Submitted by Paige @paigesquared and Jennifer Y. @ Never Too Many to Read)
Uncaged (Unspoken, #2) by. Celia McMahon ~ A series about werewolves.
Among the Beasts & Briars by. Ashley Poston ~ it has a fox who becomes a boy.
The Right Side of Reckless by. Whitney D. Grandison ~ there is a dog that becomes part of the story.
The Bone Houses by. Emily Lloyd-Jones ~ the cutest goat in a book, ever.
Twilight by. Stephenie Meyer ~ More shape shifting werewolves.
The Raven and the Dove by. Kaitlyn Davis ~ bird people!
I’ll Be the One by. Lyla Lee ~ there’s a cute husky that makes an appearance in the book.
Fireborne by. Rosaria Munda ~ dragons!
Heart of Flames by. Nicki Pau Preto ~ more dragons!
Wicked Fox by. Kat Cho ~ there is a kitsune in this one.
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:
Colorful Book Covers
Here we go with more of the color theme this week! Let’s check out colorful book covers:
Take me Home Tonight by. Morgan Matson
Plot Twist by. Bethany Turner
Better Together by. Christine Riccio
Firekeerper’s Daughter by. Angeline Bouley
Maybe This Time by. Kasie West
Felix Ever After by. Kacen Callender
The Priory of the Orange Tree by. Samantha Shannon
The Merciful Crow by. Margaret Owen
In a Holidaze by. Christina Lauren
The Kingdom of Copper by. S.A. Chakraborty
So much color! What do you have on your TTT this week?
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:
Book Titles That Sound Like They Could Be Crayola Crayon Colors
Jade City by. Fonda Lee – definitely a jade green color
Wings of Ebony by. J. Elle – a very dark purple, dark eggplant color
This Golden Flame by. Emily Victoria – a gold color
Darkfever by. Karen M. Moning – a very deep red
Shadow Frost by. Coco Ma – something similar to pewter
Yolk by. Mary H.K. Choi – a very bright yellow
Skyhunter by. Marie Lu – would be a bright blue color
A Golden Fury by. Samantha Cohoe – yellow/orange
Dustborn by. Erin Bowman – color of sand
Ember Queen by. Laura Sebastian – definitely a bright red/orange color
How did I do? This was a fun topic! I think color names definitely work better with short book titles haha. I’m excited to see what you got on your TTT this week!
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!
I’d throw these books into the ocean because they have an Ocean theme either with their cover or storyline 🌊🐋🐙🐚🦑🐡🦀🐳.
Let’s check them out:
A Song Below Water by. Bethany C. Morrow ~ nothing takes place near the ocean at all, but Sirens are creatures of water and song.
The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2) by. Danielle L. Jensen ~ the setting of this world involves the sea that divides kingdoms, one in particular who relies on it for it’s defenses.
Kingdom of Sea and Stone (Crown of Coral and Pearl, #2) by. Mara Rutherford ~ not so much in this book, but the first one introduces us to sisters born on a village situated on the ocean.
All the Stars and Teeth by. Adalyn Grace ~ from the cover, to the storyline, a total ocean adventure.
The Dark Tide by. Alicia Jasinska ~ something lives in this dark sea…and it’s sinking an island.
Starfish by. Akemi Dawn Bowman ~ this is nothing about the ocean, but check out that cover!
House of Salt and Sorrows by. Erin A. Craig ~ about a manor by the sea, wonderful story.
Daughter of the Pirate King by. Tricia Levenseller ~ I’m not a big pirate fan but I loved this duology.
Don’t Date Rosa Santos by. Nina Moreno ~ the women in her family are cursed by the sea, supposedly…but Rosa overcomes her fear of it by crossing it.
Dark Shores by. Danielle L. Jensen ~ talk about treacherous oceans, Teriana has traveled them all! Love this series.
That’s my TTT for this week ~ can’t wait to see what you have on your list!
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